Christmas isn’t Christmas with out home made mince pies. Flaky buttery candy pastry encasing wealthy mincemeat full to the brim with wealthy decadent fruits and that beautiful sticky sauce. For those who’re fortunate it’s going to even have slightly alcohol, brandy, for instance, blended in as effectively.
My Grandmother was an amazing candy pastry cook dinner. He pastry was to die for. A fairly easy but beautiful tasting tough puff pastry recipe. A recipe I exploit from her handwritten recipe e-book courting again to the Nineteen Thirties.
In our home from about now there at the very least 1 batch (24) mince pies cooked each week. Similar to my Gran, I get a lot of guests this time of yr popping in for a cup of tea and a mince pie. Night company are handled to whiskey flavoured mince pies and a glass of Baileys.
It actually means Christmas to us!
I really like mince pies. To me, Christmas just isn’t Christmas with out the scent of home made mince pies baking within the oven. My Grandmother was a wonderful candy pastry cook dinner and taught me from a younger age to make these pies.
You will have:
- 225g/8oz plain flour
- Pinch of salt
- 50g/2oz lard
- 50g/2oz butter
- Approx 2 tablespoons of chilly water
- 2oz caster sugar
Combine flour and salt collectively. Rub within the lard and butter.
End up onto a floured floor and knead.
Roll out the celebration to approx 5mm thick and minimize out equal numbers of mince pie tops and bottoms. The bottoms must be bigger than the tops.
Grease and flour your cake tray to keep away from pies sticking and place the pie bottoms in.
Add some good high quality mincemeat and slightly slug of brandy, mixing effectively in the event you like.
Utilizing your finger put slightly milk across the fringe of the pastry and add the highest lid, urgent down the perimeters. Subsequent, brush milk over the lid and sprinkle some caster sugar excessive.
Bake within the oven at 180 till golden brown. Go away to chill for five minutes earlier than inserting on a cooling rack to chill additional. If you need them served heat allow them to cool for round quarter-hour.
Now sit again, loosen up and luxuriate in!
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