Mince Pie Recipe

Ingredients Of Mince Pie

• 350 gm flour
• 225 gm butter 
• caster sugar 
• Salt to taste 

For mince meat: 

• 100 gm raisins 
• 100 gm currants 
• 50 gm moist sugar 
• 50 gm citron 
• 20 gm candied lemon peel 
• 20 gm candied orange peel 
• 5 gm nutmeg 
• 1 apple (chopped) 
• 30 ml lemon juice 
• 2 lemon rind 
• 100 ml brandy 

How to Make Mince Pie

• Mix all the ingredients for mincemeat together and use it as mincemeat. 
• To make the pastry, rub 225g cold, diced butter into 350g plain flour and mix in 100g golden caster sugar with a pinch of salt. 
• Combine the pastry into a ball (don't add liquid) and knead it briefly. 
• The dough will be fairly firm, you can use the dough immediately, or refrigerate it for later use. 
• Preheat the oven to 180C as well as line patty tins. 
• Add small sized balls of pastry into each hole and spoon mincemeat into the pies. 
• Now take slightly smaller balls of pastry than before and pat them in between your hands to make round lids, big enough to cover the pies. 
• Top the pies with their lids, pressing the edges gently together to seal, (The pies may now be frozen for up to 1 month). 
• Brush the top of the pies with milk and bake for 20 minutes until golden. 
• Leave it to cool in the tin for 5 minutes and remove it on a wire rack. 
• To serve, lightly dust it with icing sugar.
  
  Key Ingredients: flour, mincemeat, butter, brandy and lemon juice