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Mock Mince Pie

From Aunt Mena's recipe book (1888).

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A historical recipe

Aunt Mena's recipe book, by M. B. Bosson (1888).

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 4 ingredients

  1. One cup each of cracker crumbs
  2. one-half cup vinegar
  3. one and one-half cups water
  4. one teaspoonful of all kinds of spice

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • 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. One cup each of cracker crumbs, molasses and sugar ;
  2. one-half cup vinegar, and one and one-half cups water ;
  3. one teaspoonful of all kinds of spice, and butter the size of an egg ;
  4. let it come to a light boil.
  5. This will make three pies.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
Source http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Credit

From Aunt Mena's recipe book (1888), printed page 89, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/AuntMenasRecipeBook

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.