Four pound boil’d beef, chopped fine, and salted; six pound of raw apple chopped also, one pound beef suet, one quart of Wine or rich sweet cyder, one ounce mace, and cinnamon, a nutmeg, two pounds raisins, bake in paste, three fourths of an hour.Observations : All meat pies require a hotter and brisker oven than fruit pies, in good cookeries, all raisins should be stoned.
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I think those mincemeat "pies" would sit very heavily on the stomach! They certainly sound hearty, don't they? A main course sort of thing, not a dessert!
ReplyDeleteI must agree with the cook: Stone those raisins! Nothing is worse than chomping down on a raisin pit!
I certainly do agree- a main dish for certain!
ReplyDeleteAnd for the raisin pit- ouch!
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