Mince Meat Pies

Ingredients

• One pound lean beef cooked until tender
• 1 pound suet chopped fine
• 2 pounds raisins
• 1 pound currants
• 6 nice large apples (chopped)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 pint brandy
• 1 pint of sherry wine

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Henderson cook book (1914) by First Baptist Church (Henderson, N.C.). Ladies' Aid Society, page 41. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

teaspoon salt, 14 cup corn starch. Pass twice through a sieve. Stir this mixture through the rhubarb, turn the whole into a plate lined with pastry. Put in a few bits of putter here and there, brush the edge of the pastry with cold water and press firmly upon it a cover of paste. Brush the two edges with water and bake in a moderate oven. TRANSPARENT PIE. Cream a piece of butter size of an egg, stir in 2 cups sugar, 1 tablespoon of corn starch or flour, 1 of milk and 1 of vinegar, 4 well-beaten eggs. This makes 2 pies. — Mrs. J. T. Jones. PUMPKIN PIE. 1 pint pumpkin (strained), 1 quart milk, pinch salt, 4 eggs (well beaten), 2 cups sugar, 1 tablespoon butter (small), 1 teaspoon ginger, y2 teaspoon cinnamon. Mix the pump- kin, spices, sugar and salt together. Boil the milk and add the butter ; pour over the pumpkin mixture. Then, 94 PIES last of all, add the well-beaten eggs. This makes three large pie. PINEAPPLE CUSTARDS. Two eggs beaten real light, butter the size of a hen's egg, 1 large cup of sugar, y2 cup of corn starch or flour, *4 cup of sweet milk, and 1 small can of grated pineapple. — Mrs. J as. R. Rankin. PINEAPPLE PIES. One small can grated pineapple, 5 eggs, 1 tablespoon but- ter, 1 cup sugar. Reserve 4 whites for meringue. This makes 2 pies. — Mrs. Julia Thomas. LEMON PIES. Two lemons, ^4 pound butter, yolks of 3 eggs, 1 cup sugar. Cream butter and sugar, add yolks, lemon rind grated and juice, 1/2 cup water, white of 1 egg, filling for 1 pie; meringue on top. — Miss Helen Tull, Philadelphia. MINCE MEAT PIES. One pound lean beef cooked until tender, chopped fine, 1 pound suet chopped fine, 2 pounds raisins, 1 pound cur- rants, 6 nice large apples (chopped), cinnamon, cloves, 1 tea- spoon salt, 1 pint brandy and 1 pint of sherry wine

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