Cooking Mixes Holiday/Event Recipes

"To be used in Recipe#456603. Modified from, www.yasalamcooking.com."

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Ingredients: green cardamom pods, whole cloves...

"Here's what Country Living says,"Our hot-chocolate mix, made with the finest cocoa and chocolate, is a cut above most store-bought varieties. Fill jars with the mix, cover the lids with a festive swath of fabric, and include peppermint "stirring" sticks for added flavor and color. Try adding to a basket with mugs, spoons, marshmallows,..."

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Ingredients: cinnamon, milk...

"Streaks and flecks of color mark this delectable butter. From Deborah Madison's cookbook, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone."

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Ingredients: fresh edible flowers, mixed herbs...

"A wonderful addition to any cook's pantry, this lavender infused vinegar is easy to make and adds a certain j' nés quoi to any savoury dish. Use it in my Lavender Mayonnaise or to flavour a salad dressing – all the lavender taste but not the chewy lavender buds! This vinegar retains not only the flavour of the lavender, but also the fragrance..."

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Ingredients: lavender, white wine vinegar...

"A simple and beautiful syrup that is easy to make and gives amazing results. My front garden is covered in little sweet violets every spring and although I crystallise them or cut them for the spring dinner table, I recently found this old recipe for making violet syrup, which is fabulous. So, I have been busy making Sweet Violet Syrup this year! The..."

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Ingredients: violets, white sugar...

"Cooking with unusual ingredients can be very rewarding, and we all love to impress our guests with unusual recipes and flavours. Using rose water and orange blossom water is a way of doing just this, with their unique taste, but purchasing these rare treats can be expensive. I cook with rose water and orange blossom water a lot; especially in historical..."

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Ingredients: rose petals, distilled water...

"Allen Mayer says at his tea house in Ottawa, Canada, they now serve their own chais. Here's how they do it. For a mocha chai, use chocolate milk instead of white. For herbal chai, replace the Darjeeling with 1 tsp. each of chamomile, fennel seed and peppermint. This can be halved or doubled!"

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Ingredients: cinnamon sticks, tea...

"This isn't a recipe so much as it is a method. If you keep coarse sugar (turbinado, or AA-grade large crystal coarse sugar) around and don't want to buy colored sugar, this is the method for making colored sanding sugar-- gel food dye is the best for this but I also included instructions for the liquid food coloring you can pick up in most grocery..."

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Ingredients: food coloring, turbinado sugar...

"Garlicky buttered snails served in little light vol-au-vent cases, what a treat for all snail lovers! Living in France gives me access to some wonderful escargots, as well as superb garlic and butter too. These are just brilliant when served as appetisers for New Year or any other festive gathering. The beauty of these over the classic snails served..."

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Ingredients: chives, canned snails...

"Found this online. I used a little more water (1 cup) and simmered for 12 minutes, uncovered. We can't have tomato based fillings anymore, due to my DD's tomato allergy, so this works well."

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Ingredients: ground cumin, cornstarch...

"A wonderful recipe that I discovered on a recipe card from Wold's Way Lavender Farm in North Yorkshire, England! This magical lavender farm is just down the road from my parent's house and is high on my "must visit" list when I go home to England. I have found that this tea is a miracle worker for headaches, head colds and colds in general........the..."

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Ingredients: dried lemon peel, lavender...