Name: Star-Topped Mince Pies
Yield: Makes 36
Ingredients: 240 g plain flour, preferably Italian 00 flour; 1 large egg, mixed with a tablespoon water, to glaze (optional); juice of 1 orange; 60 g Trex or other vegetable fat; 60 g cold unsalted butter; icing sugar for dusting; pinch of salt; approximately 200 g mincemeat

Preparation info

Makes
36

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

How to be a Domestic Goddess

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

About

Please don’t think these will be better if you make the pastry out of butter rather than the butter and Trex mixed; it’s the vegetable shortening which makes the pies so celestially light (though by all means use lard if you object to ‘fake’ fats). And it’s the acid in the orange juice that makes the pastry especially tender.

Ingredients

240 g plain flour, preferably Italian 00 flour
60 g Trex or other vegetable fat

Method

Make the pastry following the method for manger mince pies, but form it into three discs (since you’re going to have to make these in three batches, unless you’ve got enough tart tins to make all 36 pies at once). Wrap each in clingfilm and put in the fridge to rest for 20 minutes. Preheat the oven to 220°C/gas mark

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