For me there are 3 unsurpassably wonderful Christmas biscuits, Gingerbread, Kipferl and Lebkuchen, all Germanic in origin. Over the last couple of years I’ve baked lots of these basing them on the recipes found in this lovely little book, Christmas Treats to make and give by Linda Collister (pub. Ryland Peters & Small, 2008) […]

The Christmas cards I most enjoy receiving are those that people have made themselves. When the children were little, I felt we should make our own too and I realised if this were to become reality, we’d need to start at about the beginning of November. At about that time I’d duly stock up with […]