Sweet leftover favourites include brandy butter spread on toasted panettone; Christmas pudding crumbled into a frying pan with a glass of brandy and bubbled up as a dressing for vanilla ice-cream, and mince pies mashed and folded into cold custard (good when you’ve had a bit too much to drink). Best of all is torn panettone baked with eggs, sugar, cream and candied peel – bread and butter pudding with its Christmas hat on. A fry-up does seem the most honest answer to the conundrums currently residing in the fridge. The deliciousness increases if there is any sort of gravy or roasting juices. (That jelly lurking under the bones is pure gold.) Try bubbling a surfeit of gravy and the juices that have set in the roasting tin together in a shallow pan then adding shredded greens served on mashed potato or potato cakes.A fry-up does seem the most honest answer to the conundrums currently residing in the fridge. The deliciousness increases if there is any sort of gravy or roasting juices.
