Lancashire Life Christmas Countdown
Lancashire Festive Food
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Festive canape recipe - smoked mackerel pate
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Philippa James reveals an alternative to the usual smoked salmon for Christmas day - smoked mackerel pate
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Christmas Stained Glass Biscuits recipe
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Christmas Spiced Cranberry Chutney Recipe
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Delightfully fragrant and spicy cranberry chutney; this stands up well against stronger flavours like goose, and duck (Especially with orange.) but adds richness and depth to home-baked ham, glazed with Seville marmalade, or a pork chop, too!
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Goosnargh's Johnson & Swarbrick cook their goose
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Meet the famous Lancashire poultry farmers putting goose on the menu this Christmas. Emma Mayoh reports PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIRSTY THOMPSON
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Winnie Swarbrick's Christmas roast goose recipe
Recipes
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A traditional north west roast goose recipe from Reg’s mum (of Johnson and Swarbrick), Winnie. Based on a goose of between 10 and 16 lbs
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An Ormskirk farmer's passion for sprouts and a recipe for your leftover sprouts
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Love them or loathe them, there’s every chance the ones on your Christmas dinner plate are from Ormskirk. Emma Mayoh reports
Christmas Countdown
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The Lancashire Life Good Panto Guide
Out & About
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It’s that time when the sound of thighs being slapped reverberate around our theatres. Whether you are looking for a fairy princess or a magic lamp, Amanda Griffiths’ good panto guide is a must for you. Oh, yes it is!
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Lancashire and Lake District What's On - December
Out & About
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Fleetwood's Toy Story - HTI is the UK’s biggest independent toy maker
Family
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Emma Mayoh was Santa’s Little Helper for the day when she visited the UK’s biggest independent toy maker PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIRSTY THOMPSON
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Children experience the thrill of a Victorian Christmas at Gawthorpe Hall
People & Places
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One of Lancashire’s loveliest houses opens its doors to children for a Victorian Christmas Photography by Kirsty Thompson
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Dickensian Day - A festive favourite in Formby
People & Places
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Organisers are hoping the weather doesn’t put paid to their great expectations for this year’s Dickensian Day in Formby, as Paul Mackenzie reports Photography by John Cocks
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Bright lights at Browsholme Hall - Christmas in a 21st century country estate
People & Places
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Downton Abbey claims to show us how life used to be lived on a country estate, but what’s it like in the 21st century? Amanda Griffiths reports Photography by John Cocks
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Christmas unwrapped - a guide to festive lingerie
Style
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Embrace the jewel colour palette this Christmas, writes Amanda Griffiths, and invest in some luxurious lingerie he’ll be dying to unwrap
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2012 Lancashire Life and Lake District Calendar
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