Delicious Christmas recipes to download

Download a selection of delicious festive recipes from the Country Life Archive to your iPad for free, from chefs including Simon Hopkinson, Nigel Slater and Mark Hix.

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Festive recipe Country Life

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.

Mark Hix's roast goose

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

Agnes Stamp

Agnes has worked for Country Life in various guises — across print, digital and specialist editorial projects — before finally finding her spiritual home on the Features Desk. A graduate of Central St. Martins College of Art & Design she has worked on luxury titles including GQ and Wallpaper* and has written for Condé Nast Contract Publishing, Horse & Hound, Esquire and The Independent on Sunday. She is currently writing a book about dogs, due to be published by Rizzoli New York in September 2025.