Country-Good Homemade Mincemeat

When a big kettle of simmering mincemeat fills the kitchen with its tantalizing aroma, everyone in the house starts looking forward to plump winter pies. One of our readers says: “Almost always someone in our family, sniffing the spicy fragrance of cooking mincemeat, asks if we have to wait until Thanksgiving and Christmas to have pie made with it. My answer comes a few days later when I carry the season’s first mincemeat pie to the table. It’s one of the best ways to please my family and to round out an otherwise light meal.”