Delia Smith's 36 hour plan for making xmas dinner fuss free includes preheating the oven at 7.45am on xmas day.
She also suggests the 'frazzled' cook can finally sit down at 4pm, like anyone else in her idealised nightmare house of hell will do the washing up.
She also suggests the 'frazzled' cook can finally sit down at 4pm, like anyone else in her idealised nightmare house of hell will do the washing up.
Reading this book, I am reminded why I haven't had roast turkey for xmas since about 1995.
8.55am: time for a break! Watch the children open presents, but ONLY TIL 11.30am.
Pls note my own xmas day schedule goes something along the lines of 'late morning: be vaguely dressed'. 'Before the light fades: light pizza oven'. 'When hungry: make pizza'. 'Whenever appropriate: drink steadily'.