Rich Mince Pies
A historical recipe from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers, by Lea, Elizabeth E. (Elizabeth Ellicott).
A historical recipe
Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers, by Lea, Elizabeth E. (Elizabeth Ellicott). Project Gutenberg eBook #9101.
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From Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers, by Lea, Elizabeth E. (Elizabeth Ellicott). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #9101 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9101). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.
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Ingredients
- four pounds of beef
- three pounds of suet
- two pounds of currants
- a spoonful of dried orange peel
- an ounce of citron
- three pounds of sugar
- a pint of wine
- twelve large apples
Method
- Take four pounds of beef, boiled and chopped fine, pick and chop three pounds of suet, wash two pounds of currants, and one of raisins;
- grate the peel of two lemons, and put in the juice, pound a spoonful of dried orange peel, slice an ounce of citron, and chop twelve large apples, mix these together with three pounds of sugar, half a pint of wine, and the same of brandy--and sweet cider to make it a proper thickness, put in mace and nutmeg to your taste.
- If the cider is not sweet, you must put in more sugar before the pies are baked, cut several places in the top of each with a pair of scissors.
- Mince Pies not so Rich.
- Take four pounds of beef after it has been boiled and chopped, one of suet, two of sugar, two of raisins, and four of chopped apples, mix these together with a pint of wine and cider, to make it thin enough, season to your taste with mace, nutmeg and orange peel;
- if it is not sweet enough, put in more sugar.
- Warm the pies before they are eaten.
- Where persons are not fond of suet, put butter instead, and stew the apples instead of so much cider.