Christmas recipe makes: 24 pies
Calories per serving: 105
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
suitable for freezing
Christmas recipe ingredients:
Butter, 125 g (4 oz)
Flour, 225 grams (8 oz)
Minced meat, 225 g (8 oz)
Eggs, lightly beaten 1
Powdered sugar
Cream
Fruity Mincemeat:
Lemon, grated rind and juice of 1
Raisins / sultanas, 125g (4 oz)each
Raisins and dried peaches (or apricots, pears), 125 g (4 oz) each
A mixture of spices, 1.25 ml (quarter tsp)
Sugar, light brown 100 g (3.5 oz)
Brandy, 100 ml (4 fl oz)
The consumption of apples, 200 g (7 oz)
white grapes, seedless 125 g (4 oz)
Christmas recipe instructions:
Minced meat: Combine the brandy, brown sugar, spices, dried fruit and lemon juice. Halved in the diced apples and grapes. Mix and keep that at about 5 degrees centigrade forleast one day.
Dough with water (60 ml, 4 tablespoons) butter and flour. Knead until smooth launch and a layer of dough. Cut up to 48 round pieces of dough with a cutter (5.5 cm, 2.25 inches).
Place some 'meat in the center of each round and seal with another piece of wetting of the edges before closing. Pierce the top for ventilation.
Cooking, established the mincepie, but not browned at gas mark 6 (200 degrees Celsius, 400 F).
When ready, remove from oven,Brush with beaten egg white and sprinkle with icing sugar withg.
Cook for another 10 minutes or until golden brown.
Serve warm with cream.
