It's that time of year again - the season for eating is almost upon us. We dig out a
selection of delicious recipes from the Country Life Archive to help you prepare the ultimate festive feast.
Simon Hopkinson's oysters Rockefeller and salt-cod aïoli
April Bloomfield's Brussels sprouts with pancetta and juniper berries Richard Corrigan's Crozier Blue soaked in Banyuls
Simon Hopkinson's squab pigeon with braised peas and roast quail with liver-and-mushroom croûtes
Tommi's more-fruit-than-cake cake
Mark Hix's Christmas spice biscuits and coconut cranberry snowballs
Fergus Henderson and Justin Piers Gellatly's brown-bread and Armagnac ice cream
Nigel Slater's delightful trifle
Mark Hix's boozy truffles, spicy candied peel and chocolate-covered nuts
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Interiors that inspire in a four-bedroom cottage in HertfordshireCome for the Grade II-listed family home an hour from Central London, stay for the interior-design inspiration.
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The house that refused to die: Castle Howard's spectacular 21st-century renaissance'Molten lead cascaded from the roof into the centre hall, and then the dome crashed to the ground, leaving the interior an inferno of blazing timber and shattered stonework.' 85 years on from the devastating fire at Castle Howard, restoration is still going on. Annunciata Elwes reports.
