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

Christmas Fudge

Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1 cup milk
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
25 marshmallows, quartered
1 cup butter
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 cups milk chocolate chips
2 squares unsweetened chocolate
1 cup chopped nuts

Method:
Grease a roll pan and set aside.
Combine the sugar, milk, vanilla and butter in a large, heavy saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring occasionally. Boil for about two minutes.
Remove from heat and add the marshmallows, semi-sweet chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips and unsweetened chocolate. Stir until it melts completely and is smooth.
Stir in the nuts and mix well. Pour into the prepared pans.
Let the fudge sit at least for a day before cutting them into squares. You could refrigerate it for easier cutting.

Key Ingredients:
Sugar,
Chocolate Chips,
Marshmallow,
Butter,
Vanilla Essence,
Milk,
Chocolate.

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