Mince-Meat Without Brandy

Ingredients

• Six pounds of beef, from the shoulder
• to every pint of meat, take one and a half pints of apples
• use, instead of suet, two pints of butter
• one pound of finely chopped suet
• the juice of three oranges
• three pints of sugar
• three pounds of raisins, stoned
• two pounds of well-washed currants
• two gallons of sweet cider
• two heaping teaspoonfuls of cinnamon
• a level teaspoonful each of cloves
• and allspice
• two small nutmegs
• half a pound of citron cut in small pieces

Method

1. 1

   Put on in boiling water and cook rapidly for a few minutes, to seal up the pores of the meat, then slowly until quite tender, salting as for table use.

2. 2

   Allow it to simmer down as dry as possible without scorching, thereby saving all the juice of the meat.

3. 3

   If this is not successfully done, use the liquor which is left in the mince-meat.

4. 4

   It must be perfectly cold before chopping.

5. 5

   Should be mixed one day, at least, before using, and will keep two weeks in cold weather, or may be heated and canned.

6. 6

   Add more spices, if liked.

7. 7

   Make half this quantity if preferred.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 20 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Annie Dennis cook book (1905) by Annie E. Dennis, page 76. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mince-Meat Without Brandy Six pounds of beef, from the shoulder; put on in boiling water and cook rapidly for a few minutes, to seal up the pores of the meat, then slowly until quite tender, salting as for table use. Allow it to simmer down as dry as possible without scorching, thereby saving all the juice of the meat. If this is not success- fully done, use the liquor which is left in the mince- meat. It must be perfectly cold before chopping. To every pint of meat, take one and a half pints of apples. If the pies are preferred cold, use, instead of suet, two pints of butter: otherwise, one-half the quantity of butter and one pound of finely choppea 146 THE NEW ANNIE DENNIS COOK BOOK suet ; the juice of three oranges, three pints of sugar, three pounds of raisins, stoned, two pounds of well- washed currants, two gallons of sweet cider, two heap- ing teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, a level teaspoonful each of cloves and allspice, two small nutmegs and half a pound of citron cut in small pieces

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