Mince Pies

Ingredients

• Mincemeat
• flaky crust

Method

1. 1

   Roll out the pastry, reverse a large breakfast cup on it, or a small basin, and with a sharp knife cut into rounds.

2. 2

   Keep the first rollings for the top of the pies, as the second will not be so light.

3. 3

   Lay half the rounds on greased patty-pans, wet round the edges with water, lay a heap of mincemeat in the centre, put on the covers, and bake in a quick oven for fifteen or twenty minutes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery for busy lives and small incomes (1890) by Mary Harrison, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

mince pies, using jam instead of mincemeat. 90 COOKERY FOR SMALL INCOMES Treacle Tart Ingredients. — Pastry, treacle, bread crumbs, or coarse oatmeal. Method. — Line a tart or baking- tin with pastry, trimming it round the sides ; pour treacle over and sprinkle with bread crumbs or coarse oatmeal. Bake until the pastry is cooked. Paste Sandwiches Ingredients. — Pastry, apples, currants, sugar. Method. — Divide some paste into two parts ; roll them out thinly. With the one cover the bottom of a greased baking-tin, and cover it with apples peeled and finely sliced, and strew over these currants, which have been washed and dried, and moist sugar ; cover with the other piece of pastry, and bake in a moderately quick oven for about fifteen or twenty minutes ; then cut into squares. Mince Pies Ingredients. — Mincemeat, flaky crust

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