Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, last-minute christmas mincemeat. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat Mincemeat is meant to be made about three months in advance, to give time for the flavour and texture to develop. I thought that maybe with a cooked version this might not be necessary so I adapted a Mary Berry mincemeat recipe, and it worked. I made it yesterday, and today made some successfully gorgeous mince pies.
Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have last-minute christmas mincemeat using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat:
- Get 400 g dried fruit, I used raisins and sultanas only but you could also add dried cranberries, cherries, mixed peel etc
- Take 1 eating apple, peeled
- Make ready 100 g marzipan, grated
- Prepare 50 g butter
- Take 50 g chopped almonds or cashew nuts
- Prepare 75 g soft muscovado sugar
- Get 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 1 tsp mixed spice
- Make ready finely grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
- Take 200 ml brandy, rum or whiskey
Sticky, sweet, sour and with a spicy kick from the ginger ale its packed full of festive flavours making it a great alternative to the traditional mincemeat. Put the peeled and grated Bramley apples, light muscovado sugar and the zest and juice of the orange and lemon into a large bowl with the ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, allspice, mixed dried fruit and brandy. Christmas Pudding is a huge part of my Christmas traditions. Growing up in Ireland my Mum would make them in October and have them all ready to give to Aunties and friends by the time the holidays came around.
Instructions to make Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat:
- Mix the dried fruit together. Weigh the nuts and break them up gently with the end of a rolling pin or chop roughly with a knife.
- Grate the marzipan and the apple. Put in a pan together with the dried fruit, nuts and butter.
- Add the sugar and spices and grate in the lemon zest, then squeeze the lemon and add the juice to the pan. Cover and heat gently, stirring as the butter and marzipan melt so everything mixes together.
- Simmer gently for about 10 minutes, then leave to cool. When completely cool add and stir in the rum, whiskey or brandy.
- I left it to stand for a while longer as it looked too liquid, and in about an hour or two the rum had been absorbed into the fruit. I then transferred it to jars (two of them) left them to stand overnight, then used the mincemeat to make mince pies the next day, see separate recipe.
I remember it being a big process because even after the puddings were mixed then they had to be wrapped up with string and foil and. Delia Smith does a fancier version as a last-minute Christmas cake. It seems to prove the point that as in life so too in Christmas baking it's never too late. Once cooked it can be iced in the traditional way, topped with a glazed nut topping, or simply left as is. So if, like me, this Christmas has snuck up on you far too quickly, consider this cake a truly easy, tasty alternative to the traditional variety, perfect for last-minute gifts or those family members who drop-in unannounced.
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