Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, rich mincemeat. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
These small, sweet pies are filled with delicious homemade mincemeat, which is made from fresh and dried fruits, citrus zest, nutmeg, brandy, and suet blended together. Mincemeat is as traditional as the day itself, even though the pies are eaten from early November onwards—with some starting even earlier. Properly rich shortcrust pastry filled with boozy homemade mincemeat makes these classic mince pies a must-make this year. Put them on your baking list.
Rich Mincemeat is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Rich Mincemeat is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have rich mincemeat using 15 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Rich Mincemeat:
- Prepare 500 g cooking apples coarsely grated
- Get 200 g carrots, finely grated
- Get 125 g dried apricots, coarsely chopped
- Prepare 125 g prunes, coarsely chopped
- Prepare 125 g glacé cherries, coarsely chopped
- Get 125 g fresh ginger root, finely grated
- Get 250 g raisens
- Take 250 g sultanas
- Get 250 g currants
- Prepare 175 g mixed peel
- Get grated rind and juice of 2 lemons
- Take grated rind and juice of 2 oranges
- Take 125 g honey or molasses sugar
- Take 2-3 tbsp sweet masala or sweet spice mix
- Take 250 ml brandy, plus extra for the jars
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Instructions to make Rich Mincemeat:
- Put all the ingredients in a large bowl and mix well, leave to stand in a warm kitchen for 2-3 days.
- Pack the mincemeat tightly into sterilised jars and cover with waxed paper discs, pour 1-2 tbsp of brandy into each jar, then seal.
- Every 6 months or so, open the jars, pour a little brandy over the top and reseal.
Spoon mincemeat into baked pie shell. Pour cream cheese mixture over mincemeat. And that explains why very few people I know actually truly enjoy mincemeat versus simply eating it out of tradition (or being forced to so as not to offend Grandma!). Sadly the authentic way of making mincemeat has been largely lost in the last century. Then they were made of a spiced, sweet meat mixture but are now commonly made with sweet mincemeat, a mixture of dried fruits, sugar, spices, and brandy (and no meat).
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