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Mince Pie

From A Treatise of Domestic Medicine to Which is Added a Practical System of Domestic Cookery (1824).

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A historical recipe

A Treatise of Domestic Medicine to Which is Added a Practical System of Domestic Cookery, by Thomas Cooper (1824).

United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

  • Raw or underdone meat. Raw or underdone meat or fish carries a risk. Cook to current safe temperatures.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. 4 pounds of suet picked
  2. 6 pounds of currants nicely cleaned
  3. 3 pounds of chopped apples
  4. a pint of sweet wine
  5. an ounce of cloves

Cook safely

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Of scraped beef free from skin and strings, weigh 2 pounds : 4 pounds of suet picked and chopped, then add 6 pounds of currants nicely cleaned and perfectly dry, 3 pounds of chopped apples, the peel and juice of 2 lemons, a pint of sweet wine, a nutmeg, a quarter of an ounce of cloves, ditto mace, ditto pimento, in finest powder;
  2. press the whole into a deep pan when well mixed, and keep it covered in a dry cool place.
  3. Half the quantity is enough, unless for a very large family.
  4. Have citron, orange, and lemon-peel ready, and put some of each in the pies when made.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Vegetable peeler
Source http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Credit

From A Treatise of Domestic Medicine to Which is Added a Practical System of Domestic Cookery (1824), printed page 76, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/DKC0051

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.