Basic Mincemeat

Title:
Basic Mincemeat

Yield:
12 Servings

Categories:
Fruits,
Preserves,
British




Ingredients:





   750 g  Raisins


   500 g  Candied peel


   500 g  Sultanas


   500 g  Currants


     1 kg Apples, chopped


   500    Suet (shredded)


   750 g  Brown sugar


     1    Rind & Juice of a lemon


     1    Rind & Juice of an orange


    30 g  Mixed spice


   1/2    Grated nutmeg


   500 ml Brandy or Rum






 Pass the raisins, peel and half the sultanas and currents and the apples


 through a mincing machine. Then add the remainder of the fruit, suet,


 sugar, rind and juice of the orange and lemon, spice, nutmeg and Brandy (or


 Rum). Mix well and leave covered in a jar. Stiring every day for one week.


 Turn into jars, leave 1" space from the top & Cover. Mincemeat should be


 kept a few weeks before using.


 


 ** This recipe is from 1933 edition Radiation Cookery Book


 


 From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini