Mrs Beeton’s Excellent Mincemeat

Name: Mrs Beeton’s Excellent Mincemeat
Yield: Makes 2.5 kg (5 lb)
Ingredients: 500 g (1 lb) dried currants; 3 large apples; 3 large lemons; 1 kg (2 lb) ‘moist’ (i.e. brown) sugar; 500 g (1 lb) shredded suet; 30 g (1 oz, about 1 heaping Tbsp) each shredded candied citron, candied orange peel and fresh lemon peel (with pith removed); 250 ml (8 oz, 1 cup) brandy; 2 Tbsp orange marmalade; 500 g (1 lb) seedless raisins

Preparation info

Makes
2.5 kg

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Feast of Christmas

By Paul Levy

Published 1992

About

From The Book of Household Management. Mrs Beeton says to make it about the first or second week of December. She gives another recipe that involves 375 g (½ lb) of lean beef; this one, however, contains suet but no meat.

Ingredients

3 large lemons
3 large apples
500 g (1 lb

Starter
Winter
Christmas
December
Gluten-free

Method

Grate the rinds of the lemons; squeeze out the juice, strain it and boil the remainder of the lemons until tender enough to pulp or chop very finely. Bake the apples in a preheated 180°C (35O°F, gas mark 4) oven until very soft, 30-45 mins