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I love mincemeat pie. Unfortunately, the only person in the family alive that made it is over 80 and no longer remembers the recipe.
One of the greatest regrets I have in life is not learning to appreciate the art of cooking until I was 40. the women in my family were fantastic cooks and I didn't give a damn to learn or appreciate their talents until after they were dead. I cherish the recipes some left me, but most weren't written down, including the family favorite....mincemeat pie.
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We say mince tarts here. My DH and I love them and today I brought him home a Christmas fruit cake and some tarts from our local Cambodian bread shop. They are really good but all the supermarkets sell cheaper versions. Have not brought the pudding yet. Our Cambodian lady says many of her customers will buy all of these for Christmas but end up eating them early, coming in for a second round. DH is about to get stuck into the tarts, best I go and supervise!
I love mince pies (and homemade fruitcake too!). Unfortunately I nor my wife know how to make them, so we buy the frozen kind. I would like to try some day.
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I'm glad some here are calling it a mincemeat pie, which is the original term and the original recipe.
Now, it's called a mince pie because most are actually making them without beef, which is a darn good thing. God. Beef, sugar, nuts and fruit baked in a pie is about enough to make me forgo food. Leave it to the Brits to make something that no one wants to eat!
So yeah. Fruit, nuts and sugar baked into a pie sounds good. Leave out the beef (meat) please. ;D
My mother made the small mince pies every Christmas. They were never served for dessert, but with tea or coffee. She didn't make a lot of cookies.
I asked my son to help me make some a couple of years ago. He'd never made pastry, let alone mince pies. They were pretty good, but didn't taste the same to me. For me, they were missing the mom ingredient. Son ate most of them, so I guess he got some mom dust (it's like pixie dust) in his.
I only had it once as a child during Christmas. I liked it from what I remember. They are apparently still a part of British holiday tradition, which a nice way for children to help prepare and cook them, working with their parents.
By the way, does anyone else think the flavor reminds them of Fig Newtons?
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