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Mince Pies

A historical recipe from The Sure to Rise Cookery Book Is Especially Compiled, and Contains Useful, Everyday Recipes, also Cooking Hints, by T.J. Edmonds Ltd. (1914).

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A historical recipe

The Sure to Rise Cookery Book Is Especially Compiled, and Contains Useful, Everyday Recipes, also Cooking Hints, by T.J. Edmonds Ltd. (1914). Project Gutenberg eBook #49707.

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

United Kingdom This recipe is known as British, but other nations also prepare similar recipes.

Source Public domain in the USA
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From The Sure to Rise Cookery Book Is Especially Compiled, and Contains Useful, Everyday Recipes, also Cooking Hints, by T.J. Edmonds Ltd. (1914). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #49707 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49707). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.

Method

  1. INGREDIENTS.—Mince meat, a sufficiency, and puff or short paste Recipes (see page 18).
  2. Roll out the paste to a suitable thickness, line with it the patty pans, previously well buttered;
  3. put in each sufficient mince meat, make lids of paste, cover over, press lightly at the edges, neatly trim round with a knife, and bake in a moderately quick oven.
  4. When done, sprinkle with powdered white sugar.

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