Mince pies..

Shall make your Xmas pie recipe tomorrow really sounds tasty with the orange.

 

jamie oliver has got a new twist on mince pies and he sprinkles them with cinnamon and icing sugar ..I will give it a whirl tommorow..here is his reipe..

Try mixing a teaspoon of ground cinnamon with a few tablespoons of icing sugar and sift over your mince pies

Sainsbury's easy way, for when you're short on time:
Cinnamon
Deep filled mince pies
Icing sugar


Jamies twist, for 12 mince pies:
1 tsp softened butter for greasing
Flour for dusting
375g chilled sweet pastry
1 x 400g jar of good quality mincemeat
100g walnuts finely chopped
Zest of 1 orange
Freshly grated nutmeg
1 egg, beaten with a tbsp of milk
Icing sugar, cinnamon for dusting
Optional: a splash of brandy/sherry

My all time favourite mince pie recipe
Roll out the sweet pastry on a lightly floured surface. Carefully cut out 12 circles of the pastry with a cutter or tumbler and lay them in a buttered shallow tart baking tray. Pop the tray in the fridge to chill for 30 minutes. To make the lids take the rest of your pastry and cut 12 smaller circles. Break up the mincemeat in a bowl, add finely chopped walnuts, orange zest, a little freshly grated nutmeg and mix well. Spoon the mincemeat mix into the chilled pastry bases until theyâ��re just over half full and smooth out to the edges. Brush the top of the pastry with beaten egg mixture and lay the pastry lids over the top crimping the edges so the lids stick to the bases. Then bake in the oven at 180�°C/gas mark 4 for 25 minutes or until the pastry is golden. Then just sprinkle with cinnamon and icing sugar.

 

Xmas pies turned out well with orange but think I may have to make another batch for xmas as getting visitors this afternoon.

 

Wildflower you recipe for Xmas pies are so tasty.

Only think may need to make more .

Merry Christmas

 

Mrs Roders comes up with the mincepies...
Good enough to eat.

 

Do you think you could get a few to me in time, roder?

 

Bit short notice LoL........Delays at Heathrow........
Here's our cake...Santas been drinking

 

Nice cake, roders, but we have our Lidl Stollen as we do every year (I don't DO Christmas cakes).

Perhaps next year with the mince pies ... with notice and no fog ???? Enjoy and please enjoy one for me, thank you!

 

I have got to make about 6 dozen mince pies today as someone has volunteered me to do so for the local police station.. :( so someone will have fun washing up all the mess i will be making.. :D My cake was finished a week or so ago..o/h keeps hovering near it as he has eaten one allready and is waiting to attack this last one.. he keeps saying things like he fancys a slice of cake so i go deaf..

 

:D :D :D
6 dozen!!!!! You'll be busy for a while then WF!!!!!! I expect there'll be an awful lot of mess for hubby to clean up after????more than usual I'd have thought! :D

 

Windy ..yes i make loads of mess in the kitchen :D just think all my home made mince meat dissapearing..I was hoarding it as i am a bit of a magpie..I probably only have enough to make the pies and i need some for us as well..

 

Well I'd have given them Tesco Value - or they might ask you again next year :D :D

 

very nice mrs roders well done

 

here is a few of my mince pies i iced

 

Made this mince pie recipe yesterday as I had saved recipe when it was first printer on here.

So good and tasy second batch added cranberries to mincemeat with a slug of sherry and wowwwwwwwwwww