This is a comprehensive collection of Christmas recipes, both traditional and modern. It contains recipes for everything you’re likely to want to eat on Christmas Day: breakfasts, drinks, finger food, starters, the big Christmas main course, vegetables and salads, Christmas puddings, Christmas cakes, mince pies, chocolates. But there is more to this book than that.

There are edible gifts – cookies, jars of fruit mince, individual puddings and cakes. As well, there are ideas for Christmas wrappings, decorations and table settings. And to top it all off, there are innovative recipes for those inevitable Christmas leftovers, so Boxing Day will be a feast too.