All the homemade Christmas people over here please, lets share our ideas :) - SECOND EDITION :)

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We were all on about pinterest, jars, and where we are up to in our christmas planning :)

Lets go...

ah, so sweet that we've got a married couple on here

deemented i'll be a willing volunteer if you seriously need someone to taste your bark! wouldn't it be easier to ask a neighbour though?

I made some really pretty looking chocolate truffle cookies. They look like they've got a snowflake on top of them! happy to post the recipe if anyone wants it

It wouldn't be just jam, it would be glam

love it!

Seriously though - a jar of strawberry glam - who wouldn't want that in their stocking? I know I do!

CandC that flapjack sounds devine.
Always lots of homemade mince meat here. DHs family always made their own because of his sister being a veggi.
I generally make some for a Jewish friend who got a taste for it as a child and was really sad when she found out it normally has animal fat in it. I got such a when I offered her a piece of minced pie with SIL acceptable filling, she didn't realise you could get veggi suet.

Sorry C&G - had to go to bed!
Try this recipe but read the comments below first. It's not freezable, it wouldn't be really - only made-for-freezing commercial LMP is freezable. Homemade stuff would just be wrecked. But still - lemon curd should last a while in the jar! I expect you could use it for other things as well.

Love the sound of the mincemeat biscuits - is that recipe on here or the previous thread?

There is an Open Group on FB called Back to the Basics that some of you might like to join - a group of mostly women who do lots of home-made stuff, many of them in the USA but some in the UK, Australia etc. I don't want to link to it because I'm not sure if it will link my account as well - and I don't 100% know if you can ask to join or if you have to be added by a Friend (I was added by a friend, hence my ignorance). Anyway - there are lots of recipe shares on there as well, might be interesting for some of you. :)

Mince pie biscuit recipe here:

allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/5897/luxury-mincemeat-biscuits.aspx

Thanks zimbomum! :)

Talking of edible glitter, what do you reckon to adding some to the cinnamon honey butter? Or would that be weird?

Mincemeat biscuits do you think I could make them and freeze them raw on a baking sheet? Defrost then whack in oven?

I'll be doing nigella's Christmas spiced biscuits too. I need a piping bag, ah!

electricslide - no, don't don't bother sterilising bottle that you're going to put alcohol in.

I've made damson gin, blackberry gin this weekend - I want to make pear gin as there was a load of hard pears on my allotment yesterday but not sure how pear gin would be

Anyone made Pear Gin ??

Hippyhippopotomous - that'd be fab, thank you - i'll PM you in a bit

Zimbo - ohhhh... cinnamon honey butter - do tell me more!

Prolific you can make a piping bag with grease proof paper - half a huge semi-circle and curl round.

It's probably better if you use grease proof paper, as you can have lots of them and they are very inexpensive to make.

Ooh, I'm liking the homemade mustard idea! I bought a load of mustard seeds a while ago with the intention of doing that and never got around to it - and I have some teeny-tiny miniature kilner jars that would be just right for a special mustard. Hurray : )

Laurie Pear vodka works so I can't see why pear gin wouldn't.

I have lots of little jars from last year so homemade mustard sounds fab.

Does this look like a sensible recipe?

So I went off to google homemade mustards and found this: honest-food.net/2010/10/18/how-to-make-mustard/

It's definitely worth a read if you're heading down that road.

Trills, probably but there's no way I'd be able to track down those types of chilli!

Right, I think this is the one I'm going to try first: kissmyspatula.com/2009/06/25/homemade-mustard/ She calls it Spicy Guinness Mustard but reading the ingredients, I can't help but suspect that I'll be labelling it Christmas Pudding Mustard, to go with my vodka.

I love this thread : )

I wasn't planning on tracking down that chilli, was going to use my homegrown chilli, just wondered is any seasoned mustard-makers thought the general instructions looked sensible.

Thanks for the link :)

Sorry Trills, didn't realise; the question wasn't entirely specific.