Excellent Mince Meat

Ingredients

• Three bowls of meat
• five bowls apples
• one bowl molasses
• one bowl vinegar
• two bowls cider
• one cup boiled cider
• two pounds raisins
• five pounds sugar
• two tablespoons of cinnamon
• two tablespoons of cloves
• two tablespoons of nutmeg
• one tablespoon of salt
• one tablespoon of black pepper
• three lemons; grate in the yellow rind and squeeze in the juice

Method

1. 1

   Add all but the meat and spices; cook until the raisins are swelled full.

2. 2

   This makes a large quantity, but is very nice and keeps well.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 30 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The New century cook book (1899), page 139. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Excellent Mince Meat. Three bowls of meat, five bowls apples, one bowl molasses, one bowl vinegar, two bowls cider, one cup boiled cider, two pounds raisins, five pounds sugar, two tablespoons each of cin- namon, cloves and nutmeg, one tablespoon each of salt and black pepper, three lemons; grate in the yellow rind and squeeze in the juice; add all but the meat and spices; cook until the raisins are swelled full. This makes a large quantity, but is very nice and keeps well. Aunt Jennie. Mince Meat in a small quantity. One pound beef, one-half pound suet, one pound raisins, one-half pound Sultana raisins, one pound currants, three- eighths pound citron, one and one-half pounds brown sugar, one cup good molasses, one quart boiled cider, cloves and alls- spice, one pound apples. Mrs. C. A. Wilson. Mince Meat. Two pounds boiled beef chopped fine, twice as much tart apples chopped, one pound seeded raisins, one-half pound citron cut fine, one-eighth pound candied orange peel chopped, one pint canned cherries, one pint canned peaches, one-half pound brown sugar, one pint molasses, one quart sweet cider, one-half tablespoon salt, cne-half tablespoon pepper, one-half 268 New Century Cook Book. tablespoonful mace, cloves and allspice, two tablespoonfuls cinnamon, one grated nutmeg. Mix and cook thoroughly. This will make four quarts. Mrs. E. C. Chapman. Mince Meat. Four pounds meat chopped fine, six pounds raw will make four pounds cooked, three pounds suet, eight pounds apples, four pounds raisins, four pounds currants, five pounds sugar, one pound light brown, one pound citron, three pints cider, one spoonful each kind of spice, one dessert spoonful salt. Mince Meat. Six pounds of beef and six pounds of apples chopped fine, four pounds of brown sugar, two of citron, three of raisins, three of currants, one of suet, two quarts of boiled cider, three lemons, grated rind and juice, half a cup of salt, two nutmegs, two tablespoonfuls of ground cloves, cinnamon and allspice, mix together and let it come to a good boil. When used add sweet cider enough to make quite moist. Miss Prickett. Mince Meat. Two pounds chopped meat, one pound suet minced fine, five pounds chopped apples, two pounds raisins seeded and chopped, two pounds sultana raisins (small raisins), two pounds currants, three-fourths pounds citron cut fine, two tablespoons cinnamon, one tablespoon powdered nutmeg, two tablespoons mace, one tablespoon cloves, one tablespoon allspice, one table- spoon salt

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