Christmas Holiday Recipes - Traditional Fruit Cake

Fuit cake is traditionally associated with Christmas, this video will show you how to make one. I have made a list of the ingredients you will need below.

Ingredients:

Two and a quarter cups of flour

One and a half cups of sugar

One cup of butter (softened)

8oz of cream cheese (softened)

Four Eggs

One and a half teaspoons of baking powder

One teaspoon of rum extract

Half a teaspoon of almond extract

4 oz Cranberries (soaked)

4 oz Cherries(soaked)

4 oz Walnuts

Watch the video for full instructions!

Basic Cooking Tips And Techniques - How To Cut A Pineapple

Pineapples are a good source of manganese as well as containing significant amounts of vitamin C, but it isn't the easiest of fruits to prepare as it is covered with a rough skin and has a hard core. This short video will teach you how to cut up a pineapple so as to maxinise the amount of usable fruit.

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Basic Cooking Tips And Techniques - How To Sharpen A Knife

Cooking requires more than following a recipe, all cooks need to know how to use the 'tools of the trade', working with a blunt knife can be both frustrating and dangerous. Blunt knives require you to use more pressure, and increase the risk of slipping and cutting yourself; a sharp knife however needs less pressure and gives you more control. This video shows you how to sharpen you blunt knives.

Don't want to go through the hassle of learning how to sharpen you knives the traditional way? This might help:

Basic Cooking Techniques - Making Clarified Butter

You will find that many recipes call for the use of clarified butter. This video shows you how to easily make your own.

Basic Cooking Tips And Techniques - Perfect Scrambled Eggs

So you've learned how to fry an egg, now lets look at how to scramble some! Eggs are a nutritious and versitile food. What could be more simple than scrambled eggs on toast.

Basic Cooking Techniques - How To Fry An Egg

Ok this may seem very basic! But I have included this just in case anyone doesn't know how to fry an egg. We all have to start somewhere, and this video explians just how to do it.