Basic mincemeat
- Main Ingredient: Various Fruits
- Course: Preserves
- Yield:
Basic mincemeat ingredients
- 750 g Raisins
- 500 g Candied peel
- 500 g Sultanas
- 500 g currants
- 1 kg Apples, chopped
- 500 Suet (shredded)
- 750 g Brown sugar
- 1 Rind & Juice of a lemon
- 1 Rind & Juice of an orange
- 30 g Mixed spice
- 1⁄2 Ground nutmeg
- 500 ml brandy or rum
Cooking Basic mincemeat
1. Pass the raisins, peel and half the sultanas and currents and the apples through a mincing machine.
2. Then add the remainder of the fruit, suet, sugar, rind and juice of the orange and lemon, spice, nutmeg and brandy (or rum).
3. Mixi well and leave covered in a jar. Stiring every day for one week.
4. Turn into jars, leave 1" space from the top & cover.
5. Mincemeati should be kept a few weeks before using.
6. ** this recipe is from 1933 edition radiation cookery book.
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