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Here’s the full recipe for Lawson’s Winter Wonderland chocolate cake, developed in collaboration with Ocado: INGREDIENTS. For the cake: 150g unsalted butter, cut into 5 slices, plus extra for ...
The BBC reported that the first-known mince-pie recipe dates back to an 1830s-era English cookbook. By the mid-17th century, people reportedly began associating the small pies with Christmas.
It is a light and crumbly cake, and light on fruit and candied peel; only currants, raisins, sultanas and cherries. [4] There is also the Scottish black bun, of a similar recipe using whisky and often caraway seeds, eaten on Hogmanay. [5] Aside from candied cherries, some Christmas cake recipes call for angelica for green colour. [5] [6]
Fruitcake or fruit cake is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. In the United Kingdom , certain rich versions may be iced and decorated . Fruitcakes are usually served in celebration of weddings and Christmas .
Simnel cake is a fruitcake associated with Lent and Easter and widely eaten in England, Ireland and countries with patterns of migration from them. It is distinguished by layers of almond paste or marzipan , typically one in the middle and one on top, and a set of eleven balls made of the same paste.
It was not until the 1830s that a boiled cake of flour, fruits, suet, sugar and spices, all topped with holly, made a definite appearance, becoming more and more associated with Christmas. In her bestselling 1845 book Modern Cookery for Private Families , [ 14 ] the East Sussex cook Eliza Acton was the first to refer to it as "Christmas Pudding".
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Nigella Lawson was born in 1960 in Wandsworth, London, [4] one of the daughters of Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby (1932–2023), [5] a business and finance journalist who later became a Conservative MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer in Margaret Thatcher's government, and his first wife, Vanessa Salmon (1936–1985), [6] a socialite [7] and the heiress to the J. Lyons and Co. fortune. [8]