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Jill Dupleix's traditional-with-a-twist Christmas menu

Jill Dupleix
Jill Dupleix

It's the annual dilemma – to cook a traditional Christmas meal or a contemporary one? Here's the best of both worlds, the trad/mod Christmas dinner, beginning with a do-ahead smoked salmon mousse brought bang up-to-date with a tangy herb gelee, going on to a bacon-roasted turkey with a spiced pumpkin and sausage stuffing, and finishing on this summer's coolest idea, the frosé (frozen rosé), luxed up into a very Christmassy dessert.

First course: Smoked salmon mousse (with optional herb jelly).
First course: Smoked salmon mousse (with optional herb jelly).William Meppem

Smoked salmon mousse

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Begin making this stunning smoked salmon mousse the day before you plan to serve it.


Bacon-roasted turkey with pumpkin, sausage and fruit mince stuffing

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Wrapping your turkey with bacon not only protects the meat from drying out, it gives you a spectacular end result.

Dessert: Raspberry frosé with rose cream.
Dessert: Raspberry frosé with rose cream.William Meppem

Raspberry frosé with rose cream

This summer's coolest idea, the frosé (frozen rosé), is luxed up into a very Christmassy dessert with raspberries and mascarpone.

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Jill DupleixJill Dupleix is a Good Food contributor and reviewer who writes the Know-How column.

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