Mary Berry's Christmas Collection: Over 100 of My Fabulous Recipes and Tips for a Hassle-Free Festive Season The potatoes are ready for mashing when a knife goes in easily. If undercooked, the mash will be lumpy; if overcooked, it will be sloppy. Mash the potatoes with hot milk and butter off the heat, then whisk with a balloon whisk.

The Great British Bake Off - Perfect Cakes & Bakes To Make At Home: Official tie-in to the 2016 series Gently turn the cake out onto a large sheet of baking parchment that has been lightly dusted with icing sugar. Carefully loosen the parchment that surrounds the cake and peel it off, making sure you don’t take the cake with it. Make the icing: put the icing sugar in a bowl, then mix in the cream and enough Baileys Irish Cream liqueur to give a smooth consistency. Drizzle the icing over the top of the roulade, or pipe it using the small piping bag. Remove the beef from the fridge about an hour before cooking to let it come up to room temperature.Bastefrom time to time by removing the tray from the oven, and using a spoon to pour the fat over the meat. This helps to add flavour and keep it nice and moist. The filling should be moist with plenty of sauce, but not sloppy. Add 2–3 tablespoons of water if it’s too dry. Leave the filling to cool before adding the topping, as it will support the mash better. The Mary Berry recipe calls for the tomatoes to be passed through a seive. This will give you that clean and classic ultra smooth soup, but it also creates an awful lot of food waste. I prefer to keep all of the tomato and goodness. I also love a soup with a little texture to it. Increase the oven temperature to 220ºC (fan 200ºC/425ºF/Gas 7). Transfer the potatoes to a small roasting tin and pour over all but 1 tablespoon of the top layer of fat from the large roasting tin, leaving all the juices and the onion behind in the large tin. Baste the potatoes with the fat, so they are coated all over, then return them to the oven to roast for about 10 minutes to get really crisp. (See below: Make crispy roast potatoes, step 3.) Serve your roasted tomato soup in bowls, and dress with a drizzle of double cream and a twist of pepper.

Using a palette knife, spread the cream evenly over the roulade, so you will get a uniform spiral of cream in each slice. Rather than spread the cream right up to the edges, leave a gap of about 2cm (3⁄4in) all round, or the cream will start to ooze out as you start rolling. As soon as the chocolate has melted, take the pan off the heat so the chocolate doesn’t overheat, or it will become too stiff; it needs to be a pourable consistency. Stir, lift the bowl off the pan, and leave the chocolate to cool until it feels tepid. If the chocolate is too hot when stirred into the egg yolks, it will start to cook them. So, this soup inspired by the Mary Berry tomato soup recipe has beautiful base of roasted tomatoes, and is finished with fresh basil and a dash of double cream. There are severalbeef cuts that work well for roasting. Beef fillet is expensive but ‘a real treat’ saysMary Berry (see her recipe below) and alsoworks particularlywell in a Wellington. Rib of beefand rump are all worthy contenders, or if you’re looking for a cheaper cut to slow cook, then try brisket or topside.Spread the mash over the filling (see below, Decorative topping). Bake for 30–40 minutes until golden and bubbling. Pour the cake mixture into the buttered and lined Swiss roll tin. The mixture should be light and airy now that the egg whites have been added. Ease it into the corners and smooth the surface level using a spatula. Do this very gently, so that you don’t squash out the air you have just whisked in.

Lightly dust a large piece of baking parchment with icing sugar. Turn the cake out onto the parchment and carefully peel off the lining paper. Spread the surface of the cake with the whipped cream, leaving a bare rim of about 2cm (3⁄4in) all the way around the edges. With one of the short ends near you, make a score mark 2cm (3⁄4in) in from this edge, being careful not to cut right through. Starting at this point, tightly roll up the roulade. Transfer the roulade to a serving platter or board. (See below, Roll a neat roulade.) Use a sharp knife to make a score mark 2cm (3⁄4in) in from a short edge, and cut about halfway through the cake on the score line. This will be a useful starting point when you start rolling and will give you a tighter, neater roulade. This recipe is inspired by the Mary Berry tomato soup recipe from her ‘Cooks the Perfect’ book. This tomato soup recipe is a great foundation to then build out flavours, such as a tomato and basil soup. Depending on how much time you have you can make tomato soup as simple or as gourmet as you like. That’s the beauty of it. You’ll find recipes to suit all seasons and appetites, with inspirations taken from British, Japanese and Caribbean cuisine. Recipes are punctuated with travel stories, food diaries and a personal philosophy for the every day joy that food can bring to life.Mary Berry's Christmas Collection: Over 100 Fabulous Recipes and Tips for a Hassle-Free Festive Season

Mary's "Rules of the kitchen" give tips and advice on how to organise your space and plan your cooking for the best results, elevating classic recipes to new heights of taste, plus vegetable cooking techniques are broken down so you can master the technique, from steaming to roasting and grilling, so you get your vegetables spot on. With Mary Berry Cooks the Perfect you'll be able to prepare a host of gorgeous recipes for family and friends to absolute perfection. Place the eggs in a small pan, cover with cold water, and bring to the boil. Simmer for six minutes, at which point the white should be set and firm but the yolks slightly soft. Peel and quarter the eggs.

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