Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, christmas mincemeat. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Christmas Mincemeat is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Christmas Mincemeat is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
Note: Christmas mincemeat is not, as the name suggests, meat though once it was. Look through the Christmas mincemeat recipe you will see it is sugar, fruits both fresh and dried. The butter makes the mincemeat look slightly cloudy in the jar but this disappears once the mincemeat is cooked in mince pies, etc.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have christmas mincemeat using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Mincemeat:
- Get 8 Ounces apples bramley , coarsely grated
- Get 4 Ounces suet , shredded
- Take 6 Ounces raisins
- Make ready 4 Ounces sultanas
- Take 4 Ounces berries dried mixed
- Make ready 4 Ounces citrus candied peel , chopped
- Prepare 6 Ounces dark brown sugar soft
- Prepare 1 orange , grated zest and juice
- Take 1 lemon , grated zest and juice
- Make ready 1 Ounce almond slivers
- Prepare 2 Teaspoons allspice , ground
- Take 1/4 Teaspoon cinnamon , ground
- Take 1/4 Teaspoon nutmeg , ground
- Take 3 Tablespoons brandy
You can buy some very good mincemeat, but when it is home-made it really is in another league, and once you make it yourself, you'll never look back. A mince pie (also mincemeat pie in New England, and fruit mince pie in Australia and New Zealand) is a sweet pie of English origin, filled with a mixture of dried fruits and spices called "mincemeat", that is traditionally served during the Christmas season in much of the English-speaking world. Traditional mincemeat for sweet mince pies contains suet but this recipes uses butter which makes it suitable for vegetarians. Mincemeat, the traditional filling for mince pies, is a spicy preserve comprising a mixture of dried fruit, apple, suet and candied fruit and spices steeped in rum or brandy.
Instructions to make Christmas Mincemeat:
- Combine all the ingredients except the brandy in a large glass bowl. (note: i didnt have suet so i used crisco instead, and the results were pretty good!)
- Mix well and cover with a cloth (cheesecloth, teatowels, anything is fine). leave it overnight so the flavours have a chance to meld together well.
- Preheat the oven to 120 degrees C.
- Remove the cloth covering and cover the bowl loosely with foil.
- Place in the oven for a good 3 hours (at least).
- Remove from the oven. the mixture will look like its positively drowning in fat, and thats exactly what we're after.
- Let the mixture cool to room temperature. as it is cooling, stir it every 15 minutes or so. what this does is it distributes the fats evenly so that it coats all the ingredients as it cools.
- When the mixture has cooled to room temperature, add the brandy and stir well to combine.
- Store in sterilised glass jars. it can be kept for months in a clean, well sterilised jar in a cool, dark place (no need to refrigerate).
- Its perfect for gifting too! put it in small artisan jars with metal lids, and tie a festive ribbon around the rim of the bottle.
Mincemeat is a huge part of the food culture in the UK at Christmas. It is used as the filling for small pies that are The recipes on this page provide ideas for what to do with this leftover mincemeat. Like plum pudding, mince pies are a traditional Christmas treat throughout the United Kingdom. Make your mincemeat filling when you make your fruitcakes: the longer the mixture sits, the better. View top rated Christmas mincemeat recipes with ratings and reviews.
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