Mincemeat

Name: Mincemeat
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: Stoned raisins and minced apples, each 2 lbs.; candied orange, lemon or citron rind, 8 to 16 oz.; Of a fresh-boiled ox-tongue, or inside of roasted sirloin, 1 lb.; boiled lemons, 2 large; pounded mace, 1 large teaspoonful, and rather more of ginger; nutmegs, 2 small; salt, ½ oz.; currants and fine Lisbon sugar, each 2½ lbs.; good sherry or Madeira, ½ pint; brandy, ½ pint.

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Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Modern Cookery for Private Families

By Eliza Acton

Published 1845

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Ingredients

Of a fresh-boiled ox-tongue, or inside of roasted sirloin, 1 lb.
Stoned raisins and minced apples, each 2 lbs

Europe
United Kingdom
Pastry

Method

To one pound of an unsalted ox-tongue, boiled tender and cut free from the rind, add two pounds of fine stoned raisins, two of beef kidney-suet, two