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Christmas Recipes: Edible Gifts. No.2 of 8 - Shortbread Traditional Scottish produce and ideal in a box or tin for a christmas gift. Christmas recipe makes: 2 to 3 dozen Calories per biscuit: 180-270 Preparation time: 20 minutes Cooking time: 20 minutes Not suitable for... Helen's Pan Fried Seabass Fish is, as they say, good for you. It contains a wealth of 'good' fats and protein, not to mention vitamins. Most people, however, seem a little restricted in their choice of fish, sticking with trout and salmon mostly. So why not experiment a... Indoor Grills Featured in Steven Raichlen's Newest Book With a great number of city people living in condos, with no possibility to grill outside, Raichlen's latest book, "Indoor! Grilling" covers a topic of large interest, especially that grilling is a tradition in America, some sort of a national... Kitchen Survival: Shopping for Ingredients You've read your recipe. Now it's time to go shopping for all the ingredients to create your culinary masterpiece. Make a list of what you need. Do you have any ingredients in stock? Do you have enough for your recipe? Are the... The Latke: High Fiber Recipes Even Your Bubba Would Love Put on your yamulke...here comes Hanukkah! Okay. It's official. This calendar year, the eight-day winter festival begins on the same day as Christmas. Here's a hint. No matter which holiday you celebrate, choose high fiber foods if you want to...         Christmas Recipes: Edible Gifts. No.1 of 8 - Florentines Christmas recipe makes: 12 Calories per biscuit: 170 Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 8-10 minutes Not suitable for freezing Christmas recipe ingredients: * cherries, 25 g (1 oz) * almonds, flaked 40 g (1.5 oz) * butter, unsalted 60 g (2.5 oz) * sugar, caster 50 g (2 oz) * cream, double 30 ml (2 tbsp) * sunflower seeds, 25 g (1 oz) * mixed peel, chopped 20 g (0.75 oz) * sultanas, 20 g (0.75 oz) * flour, plain white 15 g (0.5 oz) * chocolate, dark plain pieces 125 g (4 oz) Christmas recipe instructions: 1. Take the almonds and crush slightly. Prepare roughly cut pieces of cherries. 2. Prepare a solution of sugar in the butter and bring to the boil. Away from the heat, mix in flour, almonds, cherries, sultanas, mixed peel, sunflower seeds and cream. 3. Grease a sheet of baking paper and place heaped teaspoonful amounts of the mixture from step 2 onto it ensuring there is enough room for expansion during cooking. 4. Bake till the edges are golden brown. 180 degrees centigrade (gas mark 4, 350 F). About 7 minutes. Take out of the oven and use a plain large metal biscuit cutter to make rounds by pushing into the biscuits. Bake again until golden brown. 5. Cool for a couple of minutes before removing to a wire rack for complete cooling. 6. Repeat steps 3-5 for the remaining mixture from step 2. 7. Prepare melted chocolate by heating in a bowl over water at boiling point. Then take each biscuit and dip it into the choclate so all the edge is covered. Place on non-stick paper till cooled About the author: (c) Paul Curran, CEO of Cuzcom Internet Publishing Group and webmaster at Gifts-for-Christmas.com, bringing you christmas recipes and unique gifts for christmas including their online home collectibles, russian gifts, cookies, jewelry. This article may be re-published in its entirety as long as the author bylines in the resource box are included and urls kept live.