Fresh Mincemeat Plate Pie

Name: Fresh Mincemeat Plate Pie
Ingredients: 2 oranges – peeled, sliced and cut into small pieces; 2 oz chopped mixed peel (50 g); 6 cooking apples; juice of 1 lemon; 2 oz whole or halved blanched almonds (50 g); 3 teaspoons cinnamon; 4 oz sultanas (110 g); a little very cold water; pinch salt; 3 oz lard (75 g); 1–4 tablespoons granulated sugar; a little caster sugar; 4 oz block margarine or butter (110 g); a little butter; 10 oz plain flour (275 g)

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Taste of Dreams

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1976

About

The filling for this pie gives a taste of Christmas and yet it has a much fresher sharper taste than real mincemeat. It is a lovely combination of consistencies.

Ingredients

For the Pastry

10 oz plain flour (275 g)
4 oz block margarine

Dessert
Christmas
Pie

Method

Cut the fat into the flour and salt in a mixing bowl. Rub together with your fingertips until it is like breadcrumbs. Mix in a little very cold water until the mixture just sticks together. Gather into a ball and leave in the fridge for at least 1 hour.

Peel and core the apples and cut into pieces. Put them with the sugar, lemon juice and a very little water in a saucepan. Cover, and si