Christmas gifts: preserves
Make your Christmas gift that bit more special with these preserves recipes. Your loved ones will appreciate your effort when they receive the James Martin limoncello, Rachel Allen's cranberry and orange relish, or a sophisticated bottle of home-made sushi ginger. Why not include the recipe with the gift so your friends can make them too?
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Carrot and cardamom jam
Inexpensive winter roots have never been more glamorous, thanks to Thane Prince
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Fig Jam
Add a touch of the Mediterranean to your breakfast table with Gioconda Scott's recipe for home-made fig jam
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Sushi ginger Angela Nielsen makes a classy gift for Japanese food lovers
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Cranberry and orange relish
You can use fresh or frozen cranberries for Rachel Allen's refreshing preserve
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Classic mincemeat
This fresh-tasting mincemeat is laced with plenty of yuletide spirit and hints of warming spice
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Spicy pickled onions
Tom Parker-Bowles' punchy pickled onions will be a welcome inclusion on a Boxing Day buffet
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Giardiniere pickles
Delia Smith's pickles are fab served with a plate of salamis, prosciutto and mortadella, and a selection of deli cheese
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Limoncello
James Martin's recipe for limoncello, an intensely lemony Italian liqueur. Serve ice-cold as an after-dinner digestif
