Lucy Madden

Mince Pies

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Potato Year: 300 Classic Recipes
The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

  • About

The following recipe uses a large proportion of butter and makes wonderful mince pies. This amount will make about six mince pies.

Ingredients

  • 2½ oz (65 g) potatoes, cleaned, cooked and puréed
  • 4 oz (110 <

Method

Sift the flour and salt into the potato and rub in the butter with your fingertips. Bind with the water, wrap in cling film and put in the fridge for an hour.

Roll out the pastry on a floured board and, using a pastry cutter, cut into twelve circles. Grease six patty tins and line with half of the circles. Put a heaped teaspoon of mincemeat in each. Brush the underside of the remaining