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Homemade Mincemeat
You don't have to make your Homemade Mincemeat weeks in advance to create your own Mincemeat Pies for the holidays. Follow my easy recipe and I'll show you!
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Total Time
30 mins
Servings: 2 jars
Course:
Dessert
Cuisine:
Irish
Ingredients
- 500 g (3 cups) mixture of raisins, currants and sultanas (use jumbo or golden sultanas if you can get them)
- 140 g (1 cup) dried apricots, chopped
- 85 g (3/4 cups) dried cranberries
- 85 g (3/4 cups) mixed peel
- 150 ml (1/2 cup) brandy
- zest and juice 1 lemon
- zest and juice 1 orange
- 175 g (12 tablespoons) melted butter or suet
- 100 g (1 cup) fresh or frozen cranberries, roughly chopped
- 200 g (1 1/2 cup) brown sugar
- 1½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
Notes
- Keep up to 6 months in a dark, cool space.
- When it comes to sterilizing the jar, just put some water in the bottom of the jar and microwave it for 2 minutes until the water bubbles and steams. Pour out and fill while hot. Not too fussy at all.