Merry Christmas Food Tubers!
I love Christmas, family, food, treats and more than anything presents!
I'm going to show you, how you can make your own edible gifts.
So I've got two ideas from Jamie's magazine.
One is dulche de leche, think of it as a caramel version of nutella.
I love it on Italian crackers which have a bit of salt on them.
So good!
And then we've got a boozy pomegranate spiced gin which goes down a treat in my family.
So dulche de leche.
All you need is 200 grams of butter, going into a hot pan.
200 grams of sugar, light brown sugar.
Three nice big tablespoons of golden syrup or about 100 grams.
Look how gooey this is!
Nice, naughty treat.
So while that's just melting away in there I'm just going to get my vanilla pod.
These little seeds are just going to give me dish a lovely little creamy vanilla flavour.
Lovely and intense.
So just make sure all the sugar's all been dissolved.
Give it a good stir.
Final thing you need, just to make it more indulgent.
400mls of double cream and it just spreads this creamy texture all through it.
Ahh, look at that.
So it's not the faint hearted.
Yes it's a naughty treat but what better time than Christmas to enjoy this dish?
Save the diet for January!
There you go it's not got this lovely golden colour.
So just turn up the heat it a bit and just let it boil.
Look at that!
That is what you're looking for, it's like golden melting pot of bubbles.
You can see there it's really thickened up.
So my tip just to check whether it's ready, is to just put a little bit on a plate and
put this in the fridge for a few minutes.
So you can see it's firm but its got that spreadable quality.
So it will go lovely with lashings of it on toast, or crumpets or whatever you want.
I'm just going to pour it into my jar, lid on, now I'm just going to make it into my
gift and this is going to be for my Nono, because he is always the one who would give
me and my sisters those naughty sweet treats.
Simple lovely gift for my Nono.
That's for him, now I'm going to do something for my sisters.
Spiced pomegranate gin.
Look at it!
It looks amazing!
You know you can drink it in lots of different ways.
Romina my sister, she's the boozy one, she loves to drink this neat, Emi her preference
is to have it with a bit of tonic so it's a twist on the classic gin and tonic, but
for me it's extra special and I like to have it with a bit of prosecco.
It's really simple to make, 200mls of pomegranate juice into the pan and then we want to dissolve
about 350 grams of caster sugar.
So that's your base and now we're going to add all of our spices.
So we want about 4 sticks of cinnamon, four star anise and about 12 peppercorns.
I can already feel that warmth and that Christmas feeling coming into that drink.
Cinnamon comes hand in hand with oranges.
So we want peel and juice of one Clementine.
Cut it into little bits so you can see them running through the drink.
Squeeze the rest of this juice.
Bring it to the boil and once it's brought to the boil, turn it off and just leave it
until it's cooled completely.
And this is going to be the flavour bomb we're going to add to the gin.
Sugar's dissolved and it's cooled right down, so you need the seeds of three pomegranates.
Give it a good old bash and watch your fingers!
See, wha ha!
Mmm I love pomegranate.
Look how pretty it looks.
So delicious already!
But now it's time for the gin.
Find some odd shaped jars, whatever you want to present it in.
I've got a big milk bottle here, I've got a jar.
You can use small milk bottle and I'm just going to split this gin in half.
So I'm using a litre of gin here and you might think that's a lot of gin.
But this goes such a long way!
What I'm going to do is just pick out the bigger bits.
Make it a bit easier to pour.
We're quite competitive in our house, so if I was to give one sister three cinnamon sticks
and the other one only one, there'd be a debate about it!
There we go.
In a jug.
Watch the colours mixing in beautifully.
And give it a little stir, having little party in there already!
Now what you want to do, is just seal these and leave them in a cool dark place and the
flavour's just going to intensify and they'll be perfect for Christmas day!
So there you go, two great edible gift ideas, and if you want the full recipe or more cracking
gift ideas, check out Jamie's magazine issue 44.
But for you Food Tubers, Jamie's got a Christmas present.
If you click on the link below, you get 40% off his magazine subscription.
So Merry Christmas Food Tubers!
I hope you have a great one, eat lots, drink lots and we hope to see you soon!
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