THE TEAM SAYS:

What’s your holiday cooking tradition?

“My paternal grandmother passed down a recipe called ‘honeycomb cream’, a sweet, creamy summer pudding.

It’s our Kryptonite – we love it desperately, yet we’ve been unable to replicate it exactly.” – Jeanne Calitz

“Baking mince pies with my aunt Jenny. We eat them with my dad’s brandy butter, which is lethal, but glorious, melted into a hot mince pie.” – Katharine Pope

“My grandfather's contribution to the Christmas feast was his famous no-churn condensed milk ice cream. Now my mom continues the tradition. Christmas isn’t the same without it.” – Michelle Coburn

“My mom’s trifle, which includes jelly, custard, vanilla cake, canned peaches, fresh cream and nuts. My mom sadly passed away a few years

ago and now my sister carries on the tradition. The best part is leftovers for breakfast on Boxing

Day!” – Yvette Samaai

“We braai a LOT in the holidays. There’s always chicken and sausage, potato salad and my mom’s famous noodle salad. She uses sweetcorn, mayo, feta,

vinegar and sugar.” – Rugshaana Abrahams

“I always make a boozy trifle with loads of sherry.

I wasn’t allowed the grown-up version when I was young – my gran used to make a kids’ one using fruit juice for my sister and I.” – Lynda Ingham-Brown