Measured Mince-meat

Ingredients

• One and a half pints chopped meat
• three pints chopped apples
• half pint chopped suet or butter
• half pint each vinegar
• half pint each cider
• pint raisins
• two pints sugar
• one tablespoon each cinnamon
• one tablespoon each nutmeg
• one tablespoon each cloves
• half tablespoon each salt
• half tablespoon each pepper
• grated rind and juice of one lemon

Method

1. 1

   Scald the suet after chopping, and cook with other ingredients until apples are tender before adding spices.

2. 2

   If too thick, add equal parts vinegar and water.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 420. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Measured Mince-meat. — One and a half pints chopped meat, three pints chopped apples, half pint chopped suet or butter, or equal parts of each, half pint each vinegar and cider, pint raisins, two pints sugar, or one of sugar and one of molasses, one tablespoon each cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, half tablespoon each salt and pepper, and grated rind and juice of one lemon

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.