Last one

[Lucretia Borgia]

https://postimg.cc/LJDGY1x0
Last one of the season!

[Ed Pawlowski]

On 1/8/2022 10:21 AM, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
> https://postimg.cc/LJDGY1x0
> Last one of the season!

Nice !

[Graham]

On 2022-01-08 8:21 a.m., Lucretia Borgia wrote:
> https://postimg.cc/LJDGY1x0
> Last one of the season!

This has been the second xmas season that I have not eaten, or even seen
a mince pie. No regrets!

[Dave Smith]

I broke down just before Christmas and made some mince meat tarts. My
wife said she could not imagine Christmas without them, so she did not
have to. Now I have half a car of mincemeat leftover.

I have no had mince meat pie in years. It was my mother's standard
dessert for New Years day. It was a nice dessert with 6 or more
people to eat it up. It is way to much mincemeat for me to have to eat
on my own.

[Lucretia Borgia]

Depends on the mincemeat, I make my grandmothers recipe.

[Dave Smith]

I have never made it. I use a commercial mincement and add lots of
brandy or rum.

[Lucretia Borgia]

I make the little mincemeat tarts for Xmas but this is just for
myself, my daughter and SIL tomorrow, so I take the easy route and
just make a pie. We are spoiling ourselves tomorrow, we love
crackling and I got a big piece of pork belly and the butch scored it
nicely for me. I will leave it uncovered in the 'fridge tonight, salt
it tomorrow and slowly roast, hitting the heat towards the end to make
sure the crackling really crunches up. Really rather than pork, it is
crackling for dinner.

[Graham]

It's a bugger to find pork with the skin on here. SMs only get skinless
carcasses.

[US Janet]

that is one good looking pie. Blueberry?
Janet US

[Graham]

One year I made 5-6 dozen one Sunday and they were all gone by
Wednesday! The kids had hollow legs as, I suspect, did some of their
friends.

[US Janet]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 11:21:16 -0400, Lucretia Borgia
<lucreti...@fl.it> wrote:

Sorry, on my screen I can't see that it is mince.
Janet US

[Mike Duffy]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 10:55:12 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:

> Now I have half a car of mincemeat leftover.

Maybe you should make smaller batches.

[Sheldon Martin]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 US Janet wrote:

>On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>>https://postimg.cc/LJDGY1x0
>>Last one of the season!
>
>Sorry, on my screen I can't see that it is mince.
>Janet US

Neither me, could be blueberry or blackberry, or ?
I like mince meat pie but it's typically not that dark. mince meat is
usually a dark brown and splotchy depending on the mince meat
ingredients. Might be concord grape pie.

[Sheldon Martin]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 10:55:12 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>> Now I have half a car of mincemeat leftover.

https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/concord-grape-pie-recipe

[GM]

Lucretia Borgia wrote:

> https://postimg.cc/LJDGY1x0
> Last one of the season!

Looks divine...!!!

--
GM

[Dave Smith]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 08:41:07 -0700, Graham <g.st...@shaw.ca> wrote:

Don't worry. I don't even know what it is. Mince meat?

--
This is NOT a post by Dave Smith

[Dave Smith]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 17:03:04 -0000 (UTC), Mike Duffy <mxd...@bell.net>
wrote:

>On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 10:55:12 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:
>
>> Now I have half a car of mincemeat leftover.
>
>Maybe you should make smaller batches.

Or buy a bigger car.

[Lucretia Borgia]

Fortunately when I go to the yarn shop she is opposite a small
butcher. I simply call ahead and tell him what I want, he laughs
about us liking the pork belly whole but agrees people don't know what
they are missing :) All is meat is local so he can do it exactly how
you want it.

[Lucretia Borgia]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 09:28:19 -0700, US Janet <USJ...@jan6noplace.com>
wrote:

Nope, Xmas mincemeat :)

[Dave Smith]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 14:27:07 -0400, Lucretia Borgia

<lucreti...@fl.it> wrote:

>On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 09:28:19 -0700, US Janet <USJ...@jan6noplace.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 11:21:16 -0400, Lucretia Borgia
>><lucreti...@fl.it> wrote:
>>
>>>https://postimg.cc/LJDGY1x0
>>>Last one of the season!
>>
>>that is one good looking pie. Blueberry?
>>Janet US
>
>Nope, Xmas mincemeat :)

Uhm, Ghe Ghe Ghe. This is my frogger. Yes. Ghe Ghe Ghe :)))))))))))

[Dave Smith]

[Dave Smith]

On Sun, 09 Jan 2022 04:53:04 +1100, Dave Smith
<adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 17:03:04 -0000 (UTC), Mike Duffy <mxd...@bell.net>
>wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 08 Jan 2022 10:55:12 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Now I have half a car of mincemeat leftover.
>>
>>Maybe you should make smaller batches.
>
>Or buy a bigger car.

Uhm, Ghe Ghe Ghe. This is my frogger. Yes. Ghe Ghe Ghe :)))))))))))

[Dave Smith]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 08:41:07 -0700, Graham <g.st...@shaw.ca> wrote:

[Dave Smith]

[Bryan Simmons]

Over here we don't eat mice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajtB6bVmClE

--Bryan

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 10:05:34 AM UTC-6, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> I have never made it. I use a commercial mincement and add lots of
> brandy or rum.
>

I have never made it either and also use the commercial stuff but I do
love mincemeat pies. Lucretia's looks heavenly.

[Dave Smith]

[Dave Smith]

[Dave Smith]

Uhm, Dit is mijn kikker. Ghe Ghe Ghe.

[Gary]

That *does* look good and my guess was blueberry, not mince.

[Dave Smith]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 10:55:12 -0500, Dave Smith
<adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>On 2022-01-08 10:41 a.m., Graham wrote:

>> On 2022-01-08 8:21 a.m., Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>>> https://postimg.cc/LJDGY1x0
>>> Last one of the season!

>> This has been the second xmas season that I have not eaten, or even seen
>> a mince pie. No regrets!
>

> I broke down just before Christmas

It's an emotional time for many.

[Dave Smith]

I wasn't sure if it was a fruit lovers pie or an animal haters pie.

[Gary]

I watched a PBS documentary recently of the history of mince pies.
Hundreds of years ago, they were all meat and savory. Modern mince pies
are more fruity and more like dessert pies.

[Lucretia Borgia]

This is what I use, I confess I often vary the measurements etc.

1 lb Cooking Apples (Granny Smith) peeled, cored and chopped
8 oz Shredded Suet
12 oz Raisins
8 oz. Sultanas (golden raisins)
8 oz Currants
8 oz whole mixed peel, chopped
12 oz Soft brown sugar
Grated rind and juice of 2 oranges
Grated rind and juice of 2 lemons
2 oz. whole almonds cut into slivers (I leave this out)
4 tsps. mixed spice
1/2 tsp powdered cinnamon
1/2 nutmeg, grated
6 tablespoons brandy

Mix all the ingredients, except for the brandy, together in a large
bowl very thoroughly. Cover with a cloth and leave for at least 12
hours.

Place the mincemeat, loosely covered with foil in a cool oven, 225
deg, for three hours. This process slowly melts the suet which coats
the rest of the ingredients and prevents fermentation taking place if
too much juice seeps from the apples during storage. Then allow it
to get quite cold, stir in the brandy and spoon into clean, dry jars.
Cover and seal.


I vary it somewhat. Our fruit is terribly dry so I start by soaking
the fruit in brandy, whisky, rum, sherry whatever is to hand, for 24
hours. Then I do it her way and add a bit more booze in the jars!
Often add more just before I use it too. What the hell, its
Christmas!

[Dave Smith]

Yes. Ghe Ghe Ghe :)))))))))))

[Dave Smith]

On Sun, 09 Jan 2022 21:24:38 +1100, Dave Smith
<adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

Uhm, Ghe Ghe Ghe. This is my frogger. Yes. Ghe Ghe Ghe :)))))))))))

[Dave Smith]

On Sun, 09 Jan 2022 21:23:34 +1100, Dave Smith

<adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 10:55:12 -0500, Dave Smith
><adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>>On 2022-01-08 10:41 a.m., Graham wrote:
>>> On 2022-01-08 8:21 a.m., Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>>>> https://postimg.cc/LJDGY1x0
>>>> Last one of the season!
>>> This has been the second xmas season that I have not eaten, or even seen
>>> a mince pie. No regrets!
>>
>> I broke down just before Christmas
>
>It's an emotional time for many.

Uhm, Ghe Ghe Ghe. This is my frogger. Yes. Ghe Ghe Ghe :)))))))))))

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

That does sound good! I believe if I were to make the homemade stuff
I'd leave out the almonds, too.

[Lucretia Borgia]

I forgot to add, best made before October is out. The Xmas puds and
mincemeat we had was some that went into storage with the furniture
and we didn't have it back until three years later. After that I was
going to try and work it so I was three years ahead of the game but
never really got it finished off.

[Michael Trew]

Meat was a treat back then, not surprising.

I think that I read at one point, as meat became more scarce at one
point in history, "fruity" mincemeat pies became popular, and it seems
that style has stuck.

[Michael Trew]

Thanks, I'm saving that. I've never made it before. You said this was
a relative's recipe, your grandmother's, or someone?

[Dave Smith]

[Dave Smith]

[Dave Smith]

On Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:14:51 -0500, Michael Trew
<michae...@att.net> wrote:

>Thanks, I'm saving that. I've never made it before. You said this was
>a relative's recipe, your grandmother's, or someone?

Lucretia has 9 grandmothers and 17 siblings.

[Lucretia Borgia]

On Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:14:51 -0500, Michael Trew
<michae...@att.net> wrote:

The original concept was but there have been alterations she wouldn't
recognise since, such as melting the suet to avoid fermentation :)

[Dave Smith]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2022 10:21:59 +1100, Dave Smith
<adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>On Sun, 09 Jan 2022 18:14:51 -0500, Michael Trew
><michae...@att.net> wrote:
>
>>Thanks, I'm saving that. I've never made it before. You said this was
>>a relative's recipe, your grandmother's, or someone?
>
>Lucretia has 9 grandmothers and 17 siblings.

Uhm, Dit is mijn kikker. Ghe Ghe Ghe.

[Bruce 4]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 09:28:13 -0700, Graham <g.st...@shaw.ca> wrote:

>On 2022-01-08 9:08 a.m., Lucretia Borgia wrote:

>> On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 10:55:12 -0500, Dave Smith
>> <adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2022-01-08 10:41 a.m., Graham wrote:
>>>> On 2022-01-08 8:21 a.m., Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>>>>> https://postimg.cc/LJDGY1x0
>>>>> Last one of the season!
>>>> This has been the second xmas season that I have not eaten, or even seen
>>>> a mince pie. No regrets!
>>>

>>> I broke down just before Christmas and made some mince meat tarts. My
>>> wife said she could not imagine Christmas without them, so she did not
>>> have to. Now I have half a car of mincemeat leftover.
>>>
>>> I have no had mince meat pie in years. It was my mother's standard
>>> dessert for New Years day. It was a nice dessert with 6 or more
>>> people to eat it up. It is way to much mincemeat for me to have to eat
>>> on my own.
>>
>> I make the little mincemeat tarts for Xmas but this is just for
>> myself, my daughter and SIL tomorrow, so I take the easy route and
>> just make a pie. We are spoiling ourselves tomorrow, we love
>> crackling and I got a big piece of pork belly and the butch scored it
>> nicely for me. I will leave it uncovered in the 'fridge tonight, salt
>> it tomorrow and slowly roast, hitting the heat towards the end to make
>> sure the crackling really crunches up. Really rather than pork, it is
>> crackling for dinner.
>
>It's a bugger to find pork with the skin on here. SMs only get skinless
>carcasses.
Uhm, Ghe Ghe Ghe. This is my not frogger. Yes. Ghe Ghe Ghe
:)))))))))))