A traditional festive dessert, but which pud came out on top?

We’ve eaten and sipped our way through this year’s supermarket Christmas food and here are our favourites

Ingredients (Serves 8) 65 g ready-to-eat dried apricots, chopped 65 g ready-to-eat dried figs, chopped 75 g ready-to-eat dried prunes, chopped 65 g Maraschino or glacé cherries, halved Half an orange,

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W hile golden turkeys and caramelised pigs in blankets usually take centre stage on Christmas Day, the lavish meal just wouldn’t be complete without a sweet note to end on. We all know the true showst

SERVES 8-10 PREP 10 mins plus cooling and setting COOK 2 hrs 45 mins EASY V 1kg mixed dried fruit 1 lemon, zested and juiced 150ml sherry, plus 3 tbsp 250g butter 200g light muscovado sugar 150g plain