3 h. ago King Charles sells boozy £20 Christmas puddings at Sandringham based on Queen Elizabeth’s own royal recipe

KING Charles is selling boozy Christmas puddings inspired by the late Queen’s own royal family recipe.  His large £19.99 puddings contain raisins, sultanas, mixed peel, breadcrumbs, sherry and brandy.  They are on sale at the King’s Sandringham estate shop in Norfolk. It said: “Perfect for family gatherings or a solo treat, our Christmas pudding is made to a classic...

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9 h. ago The Salter body insight smart scale is the smarter way to track your health in 2026

This innovative device can help you understand your health from head to toe.

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13 h. ago Jamie Oliver’s Christmas recipes: Tasty twists on festive classics

Bored of the bog standard Christmas dinner? Jamie Oliver offers a fresh take on festive classics with inventive dishes like cauliflower cheese lasagne and coffee-spiked sticky toffee pudding

Society

13 h. ago The perfect Christmas canapés: Easy recipes for a memorable celebration

The key to flawless hosting lies in irresistible festive bites, says Gurdeep Loyal. These Christmas canapé recipes – cheese straws, devilled eggs and devils on horseback – deliver effortless style, bold flavours and unforgettable first impressions for your celebrations

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13 h. ago Mary Berry’s effortless recipes for delicious weeknight dinners this Christmas

In ‘Mary’s Foolproof Dinners’, Britain’s favourite cook serves up quick-and-easy recipes that prove tasty meals don’t have to mean mountains of effort – just what you need to reclaim calm in the kitchen

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14 h. ago How do you make perfect roast potatoes? Chefs share 3 things you need to know

Lots of people want to know the best method to make perfect roast potatoes. According to top chefs, such as Jamie Oliver, there are a few things you need to know to achieve success

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14 h. ago Rick Stein’s expert tips for cooking the perfect Christmas dinner

One of Britain’s most-loved chefs shares his tips for everything from turkey to the sprouts

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14 h. ago The Christmas dinner classics you can prepare well in advance

Yorkshire puddings, Brussels spouts and cranberry can all be made ahead of the big day

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16 h. ago Poached eggs come out 'perfect' within 5 minutes using simple method

A cooking enthusiast has shared a simple yet effective recipe trick for poaching eggs that takes just five minutes.

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18 h. ago Delizioso! Six of Italy’s tastiest local food delicacies – and where to try them

It will come as little surprise that Italian cuisine has been added to Unesco’s cultural heritage list. Here are a select few of the country’s countless regional specialitiesLast week’s announcement that Italian cuisine has been added to Unesco’s intangible cultural heritage list came as no surprise to anyone familiar with that country’s obsession with food. Unesco called Italy’s cooking a “communal activity” in which “people of all ages and genders participate, exchanging recipes, suggestions and stories”.It might have added people of all walks of life, too, because in Italy being a foodie is not the “preserve” of the chattering classes. I’ve heard building workers in a low-cost trattoria gravely discussing what starter and wine best complement a certain lunch dish, and a shabbily dressed nonna at Turin’s Porto Palazzo market enthusing over a variety of carrot available only at her favourite stall. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Skye McAlpine’s pomegranate Campari jelly and salted caramel zuccotto – recipes

A ruby-red, melt-in-the-mouth delight and an ice-cream encased in chocolate and marsala-drenched panettone – both to make ahead of timeWhile strictly speaking this is a zuccotto – that is, a dome-shaped cake filled with ice-cream and enrobed in chocolate – I take disproportionate pleasure in the fact that it looks very much like a Christmas pudding. Even more delightful is the knowledge that it can be made weeks ahead of time, and whisked out of the freezer and brought to the table as needed. There’s allo a wibbly-wobbly jelly with a soft melt-in-your-mouth set, rather than the more solid, gelatinous variety I so strongly associate with childhood tea parties. Plus, it has sparkling booze in it, which, of course, makes the whole thing feel very grown-up. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago School buses crash in Idaho with several kids hurt, including 1 flown to hospital

A school bus in Idaho rear-ended another while picking up kids, sending four students and both drivers to the hospital

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31 h. ago How we realised The Salt Path author was stealing from us for years: Widow tells documentary of the moment they discovered £64,000 was missing... and then Raynor Winn disappeared

Winn, whose real name is Sally Walker, worked as a bookkeeper in the early 2000s for the property firm run by Martin and Ros Hemmings.

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32 h. ago The inexorable rise of voice notes: ‘I’m thinking of you – I just don’t want to speak to you’

Britons now send an average of 58 hours’ worth of these messages a year. But what about the recipients who are experiencing ‘voice note fatigue’?Name: Voice notes.Age: About 14. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Lorna McClymont on leading posse of Scots into LET card battle in Morocco

Five players flying Saltire in 90-hole battle for Ladies European Tour tickets

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34 h. ago Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’

AI Mode is mangling recipes by merging instructions from multiple creators – and causing them huge dips in ad trafficThis past March, when Google began rolling out its AI Mode search capability, it began offering AI-generated recipes. The recipes were not all that intelligent. The AI had taken elements of similar recipes from multiple creators and Frankensteined them into something barely recognizable. In one memorable case, the Google AI failed to distinguish the satirical website the Onion from legitimate recipe sites and advised users to cook with non-toxic glue.Over the past few years, bloggers who have not secured their sites behind a paywall have seen their carefully developed and tested recipes show up, often without attribution and in a bastardized form, in ChatGPT replies. They have seen dumbed-down versions of their recipes in AI-assembled cookbooks available for digital downloads on Etsy or on AI-built websites that bear a superficial resemblance to an old-school human-wr...

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36 h. ago Georgina Hayden’s recipe for pear, sticky ginger and pecan pudding

This non-traditional Christmas Day dessert is a surefire winner if dried fruit-based puddings aren’t your thingWhile our Christmas Day dinner doesn’t deviate too much from tradition, I do experiment with the dessert. My family, bar one sweet-toothed aunt, avoids dried fruit-based offerings, so classic Christmas cakes and puddings are a hard no. Over the years, I have tried variations on yule logs, pavlovas and sherry trifles, but the biggest crowdpleaser is easily sticky toffee pudding (or something along those lines). This year, I’m making this warming, simple but decadent pear, sticky ginger and pecan pudding, which feels festive and fancy, and can happily make an appearance whenever. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Christmas cocktails: Seven recipes to make at home to cover any occasion

Punch for a party? Bubbles to begin with? Tyler Zielinski pours out his favourite drinks to see you through December

Society

38 h. ago The Salt Path Scandal: Everything we learn from new documentary, from the ‘confession letter’ to the bombshell tip

From author Raynor Winn’s victim mindset to exclusive interviews with family members, there’s plenty of new information about Winn and her alleged web of lies in this one-off film

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39 h. ago 2.4kg box of favourite festive chocolate drops in price again before Christmas

The massive 2.4kg box of chocolates includes Mars, Twix, Snickers, Galaxy, Milky Way, Maltesers, Galaxy Caramel, and Bounty - and it's available online at a reduced price in time for Christmas

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