Mince pies..

10 oz plain flour..
1 oz ground almonds
6 oz butter chilled.
3oz icing sugar
grated rind of an orange
1 egg
4 tablespoons of orange juice

rub buter into flour add almonds and orange rind..whisk the egg and orange juice together and add to mixture..and make a soft but not sticky dough..roll out cut into rounds fill with mincemeat brush the tops with a bit of milk and bake at 180 c /350f/gas 4 for 20 minutes..

recipe taken from the xmas cookbook..

 

just made my mince pies and they are delicious the pastry is just melt in your mouth yum yum.
made open top ones going to freeze them near xmas will will top them with icing and put something christmassy on top any ideas greatly appreciated.

 

How pies would you get out of your recipe wildflower sounds very tasty

 

skotkat, i have just made 2 batches today at one batch with 8ozs flour and the other with 10 ozs flour and i got 45 now dont forget mine are open top iff you put tops on them you will get less.
will put a picture up shortly of them .

 

Rosa how could you do this to us starving members,i just wish i lived next door i assure you there would little left to freeze :D :D

 

macleaf thought i would probably make you all hungry :D :D

 

have you no mercy

 

Could you send us a food parcel to Cornwall Rosa???? Me and Mac could share them!! :D

 

under my Yucca WM hah such thoughts :D :D

 

I can smell them from here all that is missing is a fresh pot of tea.

Thankyou shall print recipe.

 

Does anyone have a recipe for the mincemeat? I'd like to give this a try as OH loves mincepies (though I'm not keen on them myself). Thanks wildflower for the dough recipe.

 

wildflower has the recipe will ask her to put it up as i did the mincemeat of hers it tastes lovely

 

I have made my mincemeat and i didnt cook the apples first i just grated them up ..and i used sherry instead of brandy ..you can use whatever alchol you like even cider..anyway this is the recipe i used ..I added more spice than the recipe said as well just do it to your own tastes..i also didnt put marmalade in i put lots of mixed spice and a touch of ginger ...

Mincemeat i use darrina allens recipe ..

2 cooking apples
2 lemons
8oz beef suet
8oz butter finely grated
4oz mixed peel
2 tablespoons orange marmalade
8oz currants
1lb raisins
8oz sultanas
2lb barbados sugar soft dark brown
3fluid ounces irish whisky or whatever..

core and bake the apples when they are soft peel and mash them up ..grate the rind of the lemons..and squeeze the juice out add the ingredients one by one and keep stirring well..put in clean jars and cover ..this recipe will keep for a year if the mincemeat is in a cool place..
Thats it rosa its just a case of mixing everything together its really easy and tastes better than that mass produced rubbish in the shops..
sorry its in ounces i am too old too understand metric..

 

I used whiskey and they taste lovely, only used that as i never had brandy or sherry indoors.
Had a bottle of unopened was given to us and i hate the stuff been sitting in the box for 2 years so i thought mmmm open it and do the mincemeat with it and although i hate the taste of whiskey i wasnt dissapointed with the end results :D