Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat
Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, last-minute christmas mincemeat. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Christmas in Britain just cannot be without mince pies. These small, sweet pies are filled with delicious homemade mincemeat, which is made from fresh and dried fruits, citrus zest, nutmeg, brandy, and suet blended together. Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat Mincemeat is meant to be made about three months in advance, to give time for the flavour and texture to develop. I thought that maybe with a cooked version this might not be necessary so I adapted a Mary Berry mincemeat recipe, and it worked.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook last-minute christmas mincemeat using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat:
  1. Take 400 g dried fruit, I used raisins and sultanas only but you could also add dried cranberries, cherries, mixed peel etc
  2. Make ready 1 eating apple, peeled
  3. Take 100 g marzipan, grated
  4. Take 50 g butter
  5. Take 50 g chopped almonds or cashew nuts
  6. Take 75 g soft muscovado sugar
  7. Get 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  8. Take 1 tsp mixed spice
  9. Make ready finely grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
  10. Make ready 200 ml brandy, rum or whiskey

Cover and heat gently, stirring as the butter and marzipan melt so everything mixes together. Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat Hey everyone, hope you're having an incredible day today. Today, I'm gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, last-minute christmas mincemeat. One of my favorites food recipes.

Steps to make Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat:
  1. Mix the dried fruit together. Weigh the nuts and break them up gently with the end of a rolling pin or chop roughly with a knife.
  2. Grate the marzipan and the apple. Put in a pan together with the dried fruit, nuts and butter.
  3. Add the sugar and spices and grate in the lemon zest, then squeeze the lemon and add the juice to the pan. Cover and heat gently, stirring as the butter and marzipan melt so everything mixes together.
  4. Simmer gently for about 10 minutes, then leave to cool. When completely cool add and stir in the rum, whiskey or brandy.
  5. I left it to stand for a while longer as it looked too liquid, and in about an hour or two the rum had been absorbed into the fruit. I then transferred it to jars (two of them) left them to stand overnight, then used the mincemeat to make mince pies the next day, see separate recipe.

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