Mince Meat for Pies

Ingredients

• one third each of boiled beef
• suet
• raw apple, chopped fine
• also citron
• and raisins, as much as you like
• Moisten with molasses
• and sweet cider, or wine, or sweet pickle vinegar
• Add sugar
• salt
• nutmeg
• clove
• and cinnamon

Method

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   Put it in a kettle and heat it through before packing it down in jars to keep.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pocumtuc Housewife, a Guide to Domestic Cookery as it is Practised in ... (1906) by [name missing], page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mince Meat for Pies. Miss Avice Arms Take one third each of boiled beef, suet, and raw apple, chopped fine, also citron and raisins, as much as you like. Moisten with molasses and sweet cider, or wine, or sweet pickle vinegar. Add sugar, salt, nut- meg, clove and cinnamon. Only a trained taste can tell when mince-meat is just right. Put it in a -kettle and heat it through before packing it down in jars to keep. 23 UJ 1 I4J Pumpkin and Squash Pies. For common family pumpkin pies, three eggs to a quart of milk does very well. Stir in the stewed and sifted pumpkin or squash till it is as thick, as you can stir it round rapidly and easily. If you want your pie richer, make it thinner and add another egg. Sweeten to your taste with molasses or sugar. Put in a little salt, sifted cinnamon and ginger. Taste till you get it right. Pumpkin Pies without Egp Make very decent eating, especially for farm hands and growing boys, who care more for quantity than for delicacy. Make in the proportion of one quart of pumpkin, five great spoonsful of flour, two quarts miiv . Sweeten with molasses and sugar; season with ginger, allspice, cinnamon and cloves. Place the mixture over boiHng water, and stir till it thickens. Bake with one crust. Squash Pie with Raisins, One cup of sifted squash, one egg, one half cup sugar, one tablespoon flour, one pint milk, one half cup raisins seeded and spread over pastry, salt and cinnamon. Apple Pies. Stew your apples very little, just strike them through. Some do not stew them at all but cut in very thin slices, thinking this retains more of the spirit of the apples. Sugar and spice to your taste. Marlborough Pies. Steam until tender six large tart apples and strain. Stir in one spoonful butter, When cool add two eggs, the rind and juice of a lemon, and one cup of sugar beaten together. 24 Rhubarb or Persian Apple. One cup chopped rhubarb, one cup sugar, one egg, one tablespoon flour, one third rind of lemon grated. Cream Pie. One cup cream, one egg, one cup maple sugar, one table spoon flotir, little butter. , Cheese Cakes. Mrs. Jbnks Two cups soft cottage cheese, two eggs beaten light, one cup ^ugar, butter size of a walnut, nutmeg

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