Foods which make lovely gifts - they keep beautifully and are suitable for mailing. Available throughout the holiday season.
PAIN D'EPICE French "gingerbread" made with honey, rye flour, almonds, rum, angelica and spices. No eggs or butter, so no cholesterol and almost no fat. Keeps for weeks; delicious sliced thin and buttered.
AGED BRANDIED FRUITCAKE Star-shaped cakes made with figs, dates, pecans and raisins, dried cherries, wild blackberry jam and our own candied pineapple and citrus peel.
PANETTONE The long-keeping Christmas bread of Milan. Rich with butter and eggs, full of currants, raisins, pine nuts and our own candied orange peel. Available festively wrapped in cellophane.
LINZER TART Our own raspberry and apricot jam in a soft crust of ground almonds flavored with lemon zest and spiced with clove.
CHRISTMAS COOKIES You can pack them in tins for your house or a friend's, or buy them in a festive bag for a little gift. There'll be walnut and pistachio-cherry biscotti (as well as our usual varieties), several delicious flavors of shortbread, chocolate macaroons, gingerbread cutouts and more.
CRANBERRY UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE Baked in Christmas tree shape or rounds; good for brunch as well as dessert. Freezes beautifully.
Sm, Med, Lg or Christmas tree shaped
OLD-FASHIONED POUND CAKES Fine-crumbed yellow cakes packed with walnuts and soaked with sherry, flecked with vanilla bean or flavored with lemon. Small or Medium Loaves