Holiday Entertaining
18 Nov, 2024
Let’s celebrate the season in style
Christmas is a wonderful time of year to gather with loved ones and celebrate the season. We’ve designed a beautiful range of table and kitchen linens perfect for holiday hosting, entertaining and festive gifting. Top tip: make your home smell like Christmas with fragrance designed for the festive season with our limited edition Christmas Pine and Spice candles. Read on to learn more about one of our designs created in-house and discover two favourite recipes we’re sharing to make Christmas hosting a little easier.
DISCOVER CHRISTMAS 2024Hosting Christmas this year?
Elevate Christmas hosting and entertaining with our Peace Doves kitchen and table linens. Made from easy care cotton, the range includes a tablecloth, a table runner, a napkin set, an apron, oven gloves and a tea towel set. Our Peace Doves range features a block print inspired design of doves and native foliage in gorgeous green hues with hints of Christmassy red.
“Our festive designs for 2024 were hand-drawn in-house and include elements from nature that also beautifully reference Christmas. Pohutukawa florets, Christmassy stars, berries and a dove inspired by our native Kereru in flight, are sprinkled throughout our festive range to create a uniquely NZ feel” - Amy, Textile Designer
Add a festive touch to your kitchen prep
Treat your kitchen to new Christmas linens to bring a festive touch to the heart of your home this season. Our Christmas tea towel collection features beautiful designs created in-house. From mistletoe to merry mice and festive mimosas, we have something for every master chef and ‘hostess with the mostess’.
Gifting tip: Be inspired to be creative this season and use a tea towel to gift wrap wine or a Christmas pudding or gift a tea towel set with a favourite recipe.
Recipe: try our Festive Mimosa for festive celebrations
Ingredients
• 1 (750mL) bottle champagne
• 3/4 cup cranberry juice
• rosemary springs for garnish
• sugared cranberries for garnish
Sugared Cranberries
• 100 grams fresh cranberries
• 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup water
Instructions
• Add ¼ cup of juice to the bottom of a champagne flute. Fill it up with champagne, garnish with rosemary and sugared cranberries, and serve!
Sugared Cranberries
• Add 1 cup of the sugar and the water to a saucepan over medium heat. Whisk until the sugar dissolves and bring the mixture to a boil, cooking for 2 to 3 minutes. Set it aside until it is cool enough to touch. Once the syrup is cool, either dunk the cranberries in it or pour the liquid over top of them in a bowl.
Recipe: most-loved Shortbread – a sweet treat to enjoy and gift
Ingredients
• 250g butter, softened
• ¾ cup Icing Sugar
• ½ cup cornflour
• 1 ½ cups standard grade flour
Method
Preheat oven to 150ºC. Beat butter and icing sugar until creamy. Mix in cornflour and flour. On a floured surface, roll out dough to 1 cm thick and cut into Christmas shapes with cookie cutters. Carefully place on a greased oven tray. Prick with a fork. Bake for 25-30 minutes, until shortbread is pale but crisp. Cool on a wire rack and store in an airtight container. To serve, dust with icing sugar.