Special Mincemeat
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Ingredients
- Pls see below dried/crystalised fruit
- Pls see below soft dark brown sugar
- Either Brandy. whiskey OR rum
- Zest of Lemons & Oranges
- to flavour little mixed spice
- Some orange juice (fresh)
Accompaniment
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Method
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There are no set amounts with this recipe. You just need to gather together all or as many as you wish of the following:
Currants, golden sultanas, raisins,glace cherries, crystalised ginger (or stem), crystallised pineapple, dried apricots, mixed peel, dried cranberries, chopped walnuts. Also zest of lemons & oranges and mixed spice. You can also add cinnamon and nutmeg if wish.
Put all into a large miixing bowl and add about 20% of the mixture's weight in soft dark brown sugar. Then slosh in orange juice and alcohol of choice and stir well.
Cover with cling film and leave overnight. Stir again and add more alcohol if the fruit still needs plumping up. Pack into clean jars (I sterilise mine, but ? necessary as the alcohol preserves).
Like all good things it matures on keeping and will last for 2-3 years - if you can keep it that long!
Please note it contains no suet. This is the very worse saturated fat - even the vegetable one is hydrogenated fat and so unecessary.
I use it to make my Christmas Tart and Mincmeat cake, both of which are on My Dish.
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