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exchemist
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Yes they can be nice, but a lot depends on the pastry*. I must admit I don't make them, as I save my energies for Christmas Puddings. This Sunday is Stir Up Sunday, so I'll be spending part of the afternoon concocting the mixture and the following day boiling them. They then go down in the cellar until Christmas.
*By the way I've found I can get butter puff pastry in Waitrose.
I have some brandy ones with all butter pastry from Sainsbury's, so I'm optimistic.
It's good you've found it in Waitrose! They have a lot of good stuff and I have a local one now.
More for meEuk
What's in them? At first sight, they look like a fruitcake with pastry.
We managed to get a jar of Robertson's mincemeat a couple of weeks ago so I'll be making some.
I made a rich fruit cake beginning of October, I'm feeding it a couple of table spoons of cognac every week until we set about it for our Saturnalia meal dessert
rocala
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Yummmmmm me too, especially with large dollops of cream.
Mincemeat (not minced meat). Dried fruits, nits, spices, alcohol and maybe beef suet.
It gets the name because it originally did contain meat
Sounds tasty (at least the vegetarian version).
exchemist
Veteran Member
I had in mind my earlier suggestion that I make a chicken, bacon and mushroom pie if you visit at some stage in the future.
It's nice to warm them in a microwave and to put double cream on them
Why are you eating all of the sheriff's badges? Give me one!
I'll definitely be over again at some point and would love to try that! Will need to arrange it at some point.
rocala
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Here is a recipe from the BBC Good Food website
Ingredients
- 225g/8oz vegetarian suet
- 225g/8oz Bramley apples, peeled, cored and chopped
- 125g/4oz candied peel, chopped
- 225g/8oz sultanas
- 225g/8oz raisins
- 225g/8oz currants
- 175g/6oz demerara sugar
- 1 tsp mixed spice
- 1 orange, zest and juice
- 60ml/2fl oz brandy
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I go for those anise cookies!
Wandering Monk
Well-Known Member
Gluhwein and Lebkuchen
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exchemist
Veteran Member
See that's the thing with them: the ingredients list is quite similar to that for Christmas Pudding. I provided this on another thread some years ago:
Share favorite Recipes for Thanksgiving and Christmas
Just wanted to start a new thread for everyone to share their favorite recipes they cook for the holidays. Don't be afraid to share the secret family recipes....we won't tell anyone!!! It will be interesting to share recipes across culture and countries.
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And then there is Christmas cake, which is the same sort of mix of dried fruit etc., all over again, but with a rather evil layer of marzipan and icing on it, to make it even sweeter and more étouffe chrétien still.
So it can get a bit samey by the end of Christmas. But one can eat mince pies in Advent e.g. after carol services, so it's possible to get some in before you get fed up with the taste of currants, sultanas etc.