Mince Pie

Ingredients

• 1 teacupful Flour
• 2 oz. Butter
• ½ teaspoonful Royal Baking Powder
• ½ teacupful cold Water
• ½ lb. Mince

Method

1. 1

   Half cook mince and season with salt and pepper, then cool.

2. 2

   Make paste, divide into two pieces.

3. 3

   Place one in a flat tin, add cold mince, and cover with the other half of the paste.

4. 4

   Decorate and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Tried favourites cookery book (1909) by Kirk, E. W. Mrs, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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