how do you make christmas mincepies?

Question

i have promised my boyfriend i would make him some this year but i dont like them myself so do you have a good recipe?

Answer 1

How to make mince pies:
Originally mincemeat contained real meat, the only vestige of which is now suet. At one time the pastry was shaped like small cradles to represent the birth of Christ.


Ingredients

1 portion shortcrust pastry
3 tablespoons mincemeat
1 egg white
1 tablespoon caster/superfine sugar
(see measure conversions for more information)
Method

- Roll the pastry out thinly.
- Cut out 12 rounds with a 2 1/2 inch cutter and 12 rounds with a 2 inch cutter (for the lids).
- Press the larger rounds into well greased patty tins.
- Place a little mincemeat into each.
- Beat the egg white until it is just frothy and smooth.
- Brush the edges of the filled pastry and 'stick' on the pastry lids.
- Brush the tops with egg white and make a small hole with a sharp knife blade in the top of each pie.
- Sprinkle with the superfine sugar.
- Bake at 200 degrees centigrade (see temperature conversions) for about 25 minutes.



This one is also very good, I have used this one serveral times.


Christmas recipe ingredients:

* butter, 125 g (4 oz)
* white flour, plain 225 g (8 oz)
* mincemeat, 225 g (8 oz)
* egg, lightly beaten 1
* caster sugar
* cream

Fruity Mincemeat:
* lemon, grated rind and juice from 1
* raisins/sultanas, 125 g (4 oz) of each
* currants & dried peaches (or apricots, pears),125 g (4 oz) of each
* mixed spice, 1.25 ml (quarter tsp)
* sugar, light brown 100 g (3.5 oz)
* brandy, 100 ml (4 fl oz)
* eating apples, 200 g (7 oz)
* white grapes, seedless 125 g (4 oz)

Christmas recipe instructions:

1. Mincemeat: Combine the brandy, brown sugar, mixed spice, dried fruit, and lemon rind with juice. Add cubed apple and halved grapes. Mix and keep at about 5 degrees centigrade for a minimum of a day.

2. Make a dough with water (60 ml, 4 tbsp), the butter and flour. Knead until smooth and roll out a layer of thin pastry. Cut out 48 round pieces of pastry using a cutter (5.5 cm, 2.25 inch).

3. Place some mincemeat in the middle of each and seal with another round piece wetting the edges before closing. Pierce the top for ventilation purposes.

4. Bake the mincepies until set but not browned at gas mark 6 (200 degrees centigrade, 400 F).

5. When ready, remove from the oven, brush with beaten egg white and sprinkle withg caster sugar. Bake again for an additional 10 minutes or until well browned.

6. Serve warm with cream.

Answer 2

INGREDIENTS:
6 oz plain flour
2 oz hard margarine
2 oz lard
0.5 oz sugar
4 teaspoons water

METHOD:
For very rich pastry you can use one egg yolk - if so reduce the quantity of water to 2 teaspoons.

If you wish you can add 1 good tablespoon of brandy to the mincemeat one week before you use it.

Add the flour, sugar, marg and lard into a large mixing bowl. Using a rounded knife, cut into the butter and lard to start mixing it then using the tips of your fingers rub the fat flour and sugar together till you get something that looks like small breadcrumbs.

A tip from Michel Nijsten, Head Chef at the Albright Hussey is to freeze the butter beforehand and grate into the flour - it helps to create the breadcrumb-like mixture.

Then slowly add the water using a rounded knife to mix the pastry into a crumbly dough. Flour the work surface and roll out the pastry. Put into tins, add mince meat and pastry cap. Brush with milk or beaten egg and snip a small hole in the top.

Place in the over on 220 Celsius / 425 Fahrenheit / Gas Mark 7 for approximately 20 minutes.

Keep an eye on them from 15 - 20 mins as the rich pastry can easily burn.

Answer 3

You can find recipes on the Internet and in most magazines published this month (try women's magazine and BBC Good Food). If you are not keen to spend too much time, just get some ready-rolled pastry from the supermarket and a jar of mincemeat. Line small pie tins with the pastry and spoon the mincemeat into the tins and bake.

Answer 4

The easiest way:
Buy good mince filling
Buy premade pastry
If using a top crust:
Cut little slits in top crust toward the centre, five or six will do. It lets steam escape.
You can brush the top with a bit of beaten egg to make it glossy, and also sprinkle a little table sugar to give it a nice extra crunch.
Fill, bake at gas mark 8 or nine for about 40 minutes until the crust is golden brown. Heat and time may vary just a bit due to differences in your cooker versus another.
Have fun, I hope he appreciates your effort!

Answer 5

Make or (buy some pastry if your that bad a cooking )and just buy a jar of mincemeat. dead easy really. If you By some Bero flour you can send off for a recipe book ( well you used to be able to) prick the pastry with a fork and put some milk on the top. Merry Christmas

Answer 6

buy a pack of ready made pastry, a jar of mincemeat, some pastry cutters, some sugar and an egg. roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface, cut into shapes, put a teaspoon of mincemeat in the middle, brush round the edges with a beaten egg, put another shape on the top, press together, brush the top with the egg, sprinkle with sugar and bake tilll light brown.

Answer 7

strangely, without mince. I never understood that.

I can't bake. But I would do this:
- buy a pack of shortcrust pastry
- buy a jar of "mincemeat"
- buy a mince pie baking tray thingy and some cutters

roll the dough, cut, insert in dimples, fill with "mincemeat", roll more dough and cut, place on top as lids, dust with something, maybe prick somewhere with a fork (i dunno - cooks do that - like hot water and towels when someone's pregnant...) and bake somewhere hot for a while

i don't really like them either...

Answer 8

ok here's the cheats way:

Buy a jar of sweet mince
Buy a ready made pastry roll

Roll out the pastry, cut out a top and bottom for your pie, fill with the mince and stick in the oven!

Answer 9

Check with Delia online; Delia Smith's recipes are wondeful!

Answer 10

the same way as you make um in August