Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, christmas mincemeat. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Christmas Mincemeat is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Christmas Mincemeat is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have christmas mincemeat using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Mincemeat:
- Prepare apples bramley , coarsely grated
- Take suet , shredded
- Take raisins
- Get sultanas
- Prepare berries dried mixed
- Take citrus candied peel , chopped
- Prepare dark brown sugar soft
- Get orange , grated zest and juice
- Prepare lemon , grated zest and juice
- Get almond slivers
- Get allspice , ground
- Take cinnamon , ground
- Prepare nutmeg , ground
- Make ready brandy
Steps to make Christmas Mincemeat:
- Combine all the ingredients except the brandy in a large glass bowl. (note: i didnt have suet so i used crisco instead, and the results were pretty good!)
- Mix well and cover with a cloth (cheesecloth, teatowels, anything is fine). leave it overnight so the flavours have a chance to meld together well.
- Preheat the oven to 120 degrees C.
- Remove the cloth covering and cover the bowl loosely with foil.
- Place in the oven for a good 3 hours (at least).
- Remove from the oven. the mixture will look like its positively drowning in fat, and thats exactly what we're after.
- Let the mixture cool to room temperature. as it is cooling, stir it every 15 minutes or so. what this does is it distributes the fats evenly so that it coats all the ingredients as it cools.
- When the mixture has cooled to room temperature, add the brandy and stir well to combine.
- Store in sterilised glass jars. it can be kept for months in a clean, well sterilised jar in a cool, dark place (no need to refrigerate).
- Its perfect for gifting too! put it in small artisan jars with metal lids, and tie a festive ribbon around the rim of the bottle.
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