Here are the recipes for both the meat version of Mince Meat Pie and the modern vegetarian Mince Pie.
Mince Pie Christmas Recipe
Ingredients
- Fruitmince, either homemade or shopbought
- Shortcrust pastry, either homemade or shopbought
Directions
1. Line greased tartlet pans with shortcrust pastry circlets.
2. Spoon heaped teaspoons of mince into each pie
3. Top the tartlets with slightly smaller circles of pastry, preferably cut with a fluted cutter
4. Bake until golden brown.
5. Just before serving, dust pies with a light sprinkling of icing sugar.
Mince Meat Pie Christmas Recipe
Ingredients
- 1815 g lean diced beef
- 454 g butter, lard, or vegetable shortening. Diced.
- 907 g sugar
- 907 g fruit mix
- 1815 g sliced, cored apples
- 350 ml wine
- 250 ml cider
- zest and juice from one fruit citrus fruit
- A quarter of a teaspoon of Mace
- A quarter of a teaspoon of Nutmeg
- Five packets of short pastry.
Directions
1. Sear diced beef in a pan till meat is well coloured (this can be done in batches). Set aside till cool.
2. Wash, core and slice apples.
3. Combined all ingredients in a bowl. Mix well (this step can be done in batches).
4. Using three, greased, deep, pie trays (or five greased muffin trays, for tartlets), use the pastry to line the tray, to create a pie shell.
5. Place tray, with shell, into oven and set to 150 degrees Celsius. Bake till lightly golden. Remove from oven. Rest pie shells till cool.
6. Fill pie shells with mixture, till level or a slight mound above the rim. Trim with excess pastry.
7. Bake at 150 degrees Celsius for forty five minutes per tray (thirty five minutes per muffin tray).
This Mince Meat Pie Christmas recipe makes 15-20 servings. Mince Meat Pie Christmas recipe difficulty level medium.
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