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Mince Pies without Meat

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.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. three pounds also minced
  2. an ounce each
  3. three pounds of the finest powder sugar
  4. an ounce of salt
  5. a pint of port
  6. four pounds of currants

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 the best apples six pounds, pared, cored, and minced ;
  2. of fresh suet, and raisins stoned, each three pounds also minced ;
  3. to these add of mace and cinnamon, a quarter of an ounce each, and eight cloves, in finest powfler, three pounds of the finest powder sugar, three quarters of an ounce of salt, the rinds of four and juice of two lemons, half a pint of port, the same of brandy.
  4. Mix well and put into a deep pan.
  5. Have ready washed and dried four pounds of currants, and add as you make the pies, with candied fruit.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
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.