Elegant Homemade Mincemeat

Name: Elegant Homemade Mincemeat
Yield: Makes enough filling for 8 pies
Ingredients: ¼ lb. citron, diced; 2 tblsp. candied orange peel, chopped; 2 c. sugar; 2 tsp. salt; 4 tsp. ground cinnamon; 3 lbs. beef round; Water; 2½ qts. apples, peeled and chopped; 2 lb. seedless raisins; 2 lb. dried currants; ¼ c. butter or regular margarine; 2 c. apple cider; 2 c. pineapple juice; Grated peel of 1 lemon; Juice of 1 lemon; 2 c. white corn syrup; ¾ c. cider vinegar; 2 tsp. ground nutmeg; 2 tsp. ground allspice; 2 tsp. ground ginger; 1½ tsp. ground cloves

Preparation info

Makes enough filling for
8
pies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Farm Journal’s Country Cookbook

By Nell B. Nichols

Published 1972

About

It takes time to make this mincemeat, but it’s worth the effort

Ingredients

3 lbs. beef round
Water
½ lb. suet
2½ qts

Method

Simmer beef in small amount water until tender; remove, cool, discard bone or gristle and put meat through food chopper (medium blade). Cook down stock until ¾ c. remains.
Grind suet fine. Combine meat, suet and apples in 2-gal. crock. Add raisins, currants, citron and orange peel.
Combine in saucepan sugar, salt, spices, cider, pineapple juice, lemon p