RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Basic pancakes

  Tamasin Day Lewis shows how simple it is to toss up a few pancakes for a quick and easy treat

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  Hog and dough

  Ellen Linford has devised a warming combination of pork and vegetables topped with a suet pastry crust to create a lovely winter meal

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  Chicken curry

  Keen home cook Paddy Roberts pitches his chicken curry against top chef Tom Green

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  Chocolate and vanilla semifreddo

  Angela Hartnett creates a truly indulgent layered ice cream cake, lightly flavoured with amaretto liqueur

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  Roast wild duck with braised cabbage, garlic and shallots

  Chris Galvin dishes up the perfect winter meal for duck lovers

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  Pistachio pavlovas with poached apricots

  Beautiful meringue puddings with cardamom-spiked apricots from Rachel Allen

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  Ginger nut key lime pie

  A taste of sunny USA is encapsulated in this zesty dessert by Charita Jones

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  Fricassée of chicken legs with Lyonnaise potatoes

  Anthony Demetre cooks the potatoes in their jackets for his Lyonnaise potatoes to help prevent them from disintegrating when they are fried later

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  Baked potatoes

  Rachel Allen offers a choice of three tasty fillings for baked potatoes

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  Goose, fennel, orange and black olive salad

  Matthew Fort uses leftovers to make a glorious Boxing Day salad