I know it's not Xmas yet, but wanted to abuse my account to share a new project. Folk 'n' Hell is the campfire you shouldn’t have wandered up to: Three unapologetic cinegoblins unearth folk horror delights from around the world and try to agree if they're worth our (and your) time t.co/dXkTU4kXpq

Add 2oz flour to 1 ½ oz dripping and mix to form a dough. Add sherry and stir until blended then add 2 tbsp cooking sherry, beating all the time. Season then fold in 1/2lb chicken.

Sever the pigeons' wingtips, lay them in a casserole dish, and cover with dark stock. Roast at 180°C for 35 minutes, then let cool. Carve the breasts, leaving the wings attached. Coat with chaudfroid sauce, creating a chilling, macabre dish fit for a grim feast.

Bake 6 potatoes in their jackets, then cut away the lids and scoop out the interiors. Mash the removed potato with a fork and fold in 1 tin of corned beef hash. Pack the mixture back into the potato cases, cover and return to the oven at 140 degrees. Add a poached egg to each finished potato

Submerge gammon overnight. Boil it with chickpeas in 5.5 pints of water, then bake at 180°C for 30 mins. Fry leeks, carrots, cabbage, garlic, turnip, and onion in pork fat. Add to the dish and bake 30 mins more. Serve with the vegetables. Apologize for the dark forces

Roast a pheasant stuffed with mushrooms and pancetta, then skin it and place in a deep dish. Poach shallots in milk, add the mushrooms, and thicken with flour to make a sauce. Pour over the pheasant and garnish with onions and shallots. Serve challengingly

Scrub 1 quart of mussels, steam until they open, then chop and mix with a pint of mayonnaise, single cream, parsley, chopped gherkin, and capers. Dissolve gelatine, strain over, and chill to set. Unmould the dish and promptly consign it to a 50-litre kitchen bin.

Create a hauntingly elegant green grape jelly. Press ¾ lb grapes for juice, mix with sauternes, lemon juice, water, and dissolved gelatin. Sweeten, pour halfway into a mould, and set. Add 12 grapes around the edge, cover with the remaining mix, and chill.

Butter a mould for this haunting soufflé. Blend 3 oz sugar, 3 oz ground almonds, grated lemon zest, and 10 oz cream cheese. Whip 5 fl oz egg whites to peaks and fold in. Bake at 160°C for 30 minutes. Unmould onto a Swiss roll base, decorate with sponge fingers, and dust with icing sugar.

Stuffed glazed ham Score the ham with V-shapes, placing black olives in the cuts. Add pimentos and green olives. Drip aspic to seal them, then adorn with radishes and tomatoes stuffed with vegetables and topped with mayonnaise. Present the lavishly adorned ham with unapologetic gaudiness.

Chaudfroid Chicken: Halve roasted chicken breasts. Make a roux with butter, flour, chicken stock, brandy, cream, and softened gelatin. Whisk until thick. Pour sauce over chicken, covering completely, and chill until set. A rich, glossy, and elegant French dish awaits—bonne chance!

A simple dessert of sinister artistry. Take several flavours of ice cream, layered meticulously within towering moulds. Between the strata, scatter candied fruits and toasted nuts.

Combine shredded lettuce, cooked rice, and fried sausagemeat, bacon, and liver. Mix with leeks, seasoning, and a beaten egg. Boil a cabbage, peel its leaves, and fill them with the mixture. Reassemble into a ball and serve

Cthulunapés.

The more terror, the better the terrine

I thought the front row were extracted molars.

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“Please sir, can I have some less?”

Nah

Whisk egg yolks with milk and seasoning, thicken in a bain-marie, and dissolve gelatine in water. Blend yolks with minced chicken or rabbit and cream, then fold in whipped egg whites and gelatine. Pour into a mould, let it set, and serve with dark intent.

It's the cold mashed potatoes which upset me most

It looks like you could wear it

That's very kind of you, considering that I'm attempting to burn your eyes out with 70s gastronomic excess every day ;-)

A dish inspired by Dante's circles of hell: an outer ring of chives and parsley, a second of capers, a third of minced onion, and anchovies marking the inner cordon. At the center, place cold mashed potatoes crowned with raw egg yolks.

Santanic eggs (like devilled eggs but Christmassier)

Boil six eggs until firm, cool, and peel. Halve them, scoop yolks into a bowl, and mix with mayo, mustard, vinegar, and seasoning until smooth. Fill the whites with this mixture, creating a spiced parody of their former vitality.

It certainly looks... hefty

A Yuletide boob of breasts. Tuck in.

Strip pheasant breasts from their skeletal confines and set aside with the remaining flesh and livers. Brown the breasts in butter, add stock and port, and poach until tender. Mince the rest, mix with jus, veal, shallots, garlic, brandy, and cream. Steam until bland. Serve apologetically

Bornholm Egg Cake Make scrambled eggs and arrange kippers and radishes in a star shape on top. Honestly, that's it. And yet Fanny wrote out a lengthy and involved recipe and instructions. And the picture. Oh my, the picture. Horror incarnate

Steamed spinach mould Whip 4oz butter, yolks of 4 eggs, parsley, and spinach. Add milk-soaked bread and soured cream. Fold in whipped egg whites, pour into a buttered mould, seal with foil, and steam for 2 hours. Unmould, serve, and revel in its sinister delight.

Tonight from 7 on www.noiseboxradio.com The Muppets take over Christmas, ITV stop showing up for the Xmas ratings battle, and Shock Treatment, the underrated sequel to The Rocky Horror Show. Plus festive music from Bernard Manning (!), William Shatner, Twisted Sister, Bootsy Collins, Iron Maiden

Lay six salmon cutlets in a cold pan, drowning them in burgundy. Poach until they lose their life, then drain them, cold and still. Add fish stock to the pan, reduce to a dark, thickened broth. Pour in cream, season with salt and pepper, and serve with peas, mushrooms, and potatoes.

Combine 2lb damsons, 1.5 pints water, and 1lb sago in a pan. Boil, stirring as stones surface. Remove, crack them, and return their kernels. Sweeten with sugar, then pour into a mould. Bake at 160°C until a thick, blood-red paste forms. Serve hot or cold, if you can bear to taste it.

Begin with spinach, washed but tainted. Cook until it wilts into darkness, drain, and blend to a paste. Whip eggs with parmesan, veal, salt, and a hint of dread. Bake the mixture in a buttered mould at 150°C for 45 minutes. Serve the cold, crusted dish—eerily like cheese, yet profoundly unsettling.

This Christmas, give peas a chance. To give you food poisoning. Participate in the peas lottery.

Enshroud a dish with lettuce & pour in 2lb of peas. Add caster sugar, stock and seasoning then seal their fate with a lettuce lid, and plunge into an oven at 160C. When it reaches the consistency of a swampy mire discard the flaccid leaves & add mayo & coffee cream. Serve with sinister gloating

Yes this is what was being served at the dinner parties in Rosemary’s Baby

Engraved chicken cream... in aspic Beat yolks and flour until broken and whip into near-boiling milk to form a frothy, cursed batter. Thicken in a bain-marie, cooling to lifeblood warmth. Fold in chicken flesh, cheese, and cream. Seal in a gleaming shroud of aspic, and adorn with dark runes

They look very much like potato latkes which are sooo delicious

You never know with Fanny what lies beneath

I'd eat those. Can't believe I just said that.

Cast delicately sliced potatoes into searing butter, and gaze as chaos turns golden strands to charred blackness. Add lemon, salt, and pepper, serving on a cheerful plate—a bitter contrast to the ruin. Dubbed Les Délicieuses, the dish mocks itself, offering no delight but Fanny’s own

Christmas is Saved Praise Be The joyous Festive Fanny Account has appeared here on BSky A daily abomination from the wonders of Fanny Cradock Cookbooks. Come here Johnnie, chop chop

That’s a lot of whoopsies.

Especially for @festivefanny.bsky.social - and any Fanny Cradock fans- how about "forcemeat" in a cabbage ball? Got this cookbook on Ebay a few year back and it's a truly nauseous joy x (sadly no illustrations) #fannycradock

She got the idea for this when mucking out the pigs as a land girl on a farm during WWII.

From the skillet arises a sinister creation: liver spheres cloaked in flour, seared to a cursed gleam, and perched on buttered potato nests. Broccoli florets stand as grotesque sentinels. The dish beckons with dark allure. Meal or a ritual? Only Fanny knows

That duck must have committed unspeakable crimes to result in such a punishment.

Making fresh grapes look like pustules.