Prime Minister David Cameron said:

"I am delighted to wish the Jewish community in the UK and across the world a happy and peaceful Chanucah.

"Chanucah is a magical eight day festival that children look forward to throughout the year – a joyous time of candles, doughnuts and gifts.

When I was a child we sometimes had chicken for our Chanucah dinner. But mostly it was my mother’s pot roast brisket, which I have already pointed out in these pages was the greatest brisket cooked anywhere since the end of the Babylonian exile. Sadly, we stuck with cookies and pastries instead of doughnuts – not that anyone ever had room for many of them.

This classic Japanese recipe is traditionally savoury. I have transformed it from a starter into an interesting dessert and teamed it with a salted caramel sauce.

INGREDIENTS

250ml ice-cold sparkling water
½ egg, beaten
100g plain flour plus extra for coating
50g cornflour
½ tsp baking powder
1 apple, cored and sliced
1 pear, cored and sliced

This recipe makes for an entertaining dessert. They’re not doughnuts in the strictest sense of the word, but they do make for a pretty and tasty alternative.

Serves 6

Ingredients

For the doughnuts:
125g plain flour
20g sugar
1 orange, zested
20g butter
20g yeast
1 tbsp milk
1 egg

For the chocolate sauce:
75g dark chocolate, broken into cubes
10g butter
5 tbsp milk

INGREDIENTS

20 chicken wings
100ml olive oil
60ml white balsamic vinegar
Large bunch flat leaf parsley, chopped
Juice and zest of 1 lemon
2 tbsp honey
2 tbsp mustard
White pepper and rock salt
1 litre vegetable oil, for frying

METHOD

Wash and pat the wings dry and put in a mixing bowl.

Blend the oil, balsamic, lemon juice, honey and mustard to a sauce-like consistency.

● Chanucah packs have been distributed to Liberal Jewish students on 36 campuses in time for the festival.

Liberal Judaism sent out 250 packs, each containing a menorah, candles, dreidel, Chanucah gelt, and messages from chaplain Rabbi Ariel Friedlander and student rabbi Benji Stanley.