Mincemeat Pie

1658

Preparation info
  • Yield: Enough for Two 9 inch Pies,

    16

    Servings.
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Christmas Cook: Three Centuries of American Yuletide Sweets

By William Woys Weaver

Published 1990

  • About

The original recipe called upon US to use Pounds of suet, far more than enough! That was the age in English cookery when meat pies after baking were filled to overflowing with melted butter. My impression of those hardy people is that they had skin like tallow and blood vessels like rope.

I had a rather long and interesting discussion once with Ann Willan (p