How far in advance is it safe to prepare prawn cocktail as a starter for Christmas day?
We would recommend that you make prawn cocktail only a couple of hours beforehand, and keep it refrigerated until 30 minutes before serving it. Q: I have successfully made Cheese and Parsnip Roulade from Delia Smith’s Christmas but can no longer source Sage Derby cheese locally. Sage Derby is becoming increasingly difficult to find and Delia acknowledges this by suggesting an alternative, Lancashire, in the recipe. However, because it hasn’t been tested using an alternative cheese, there is no quantity given for the sage. Sage does have rather a strong and distinctive flavour so you don’t want to overdo it. We would suggest you try about six (fresh) leaves, VERY finely chopped. Taste the mixture as you go so that you can add some more if you don’t think it’s strong enough. Q: All the recipes I have seen for chocolate yule logs have no fat in them. I am desperate to find a recipe with some form of fat ingredient, so that the yule log will last more than just a couple of day… Most reci
