Mom Evansmincemeat Recipes

MINCEMEAT

Steps:

• Put meat, suet, citron, peel, peeled and cored apples, lemon and orange through the meat grinder.
• Mix throughly with sugar, currants. rasins, spices, salt, brandy and sherry.
• Pack into quart jars and process or freeze.
• Every few months add a couple of tablespoons brandy, sherry or rum if the mix looks dry.

EASY MINCEMEAT

Steps:

• Put all the ingredients, except the brandy, in a large saucepan. Cook over a low heat for 10 mins, stirring occasionally, until the sugar and suet have completely dissolved.
• Remove from the heat and leave to cool to room temperature before stirring in the brandy. The mincemeat may look loose at this stage, but it will continue to thicken. You can encase it in pastry as soon as it's cooled. Alternatively, spoon the warm mincemeat into a large sterilised jar or several smaller ones (see tip, below). Will keep in a cool, dry place for up to six months.

MUM'S MINCEMEAT

Steps:

• Melt suet in a saucepan over medium-low heat; strain liquid through a fine-mesh strainer into a bowl and discard solids. Refrigerate liquid until again solid.
• Grate solid suet, measure 12 ounces of grated suet into a bowl, and set aside.
• Stir brown sugar, sultana raisins, dark raisins, currants, fruit peel, almonds, allspice, nutmeg, and salt together in a large bowl; add grated suet and stir. Fold grated apple through the mixture.
• Cover bowl loosely with aluminum foil and allow it to sit at room temperature, stirring once daily, until fermented, 3 to 5 days. Refrigerate until needed.

MOM'S MEAT LOAF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, combine the first 7 ingredients. Add beef; mix lightly but thoroughly. Shape into an 8x4-in. loaf in an ungreased 15x10x1-in. baking pan., In a small bowl, combine remaining ingredients, stirring to dissolve sugar; remove 1/2 cup for sauce. Spread remaining mixture over meat loaf., Bake 60-65 minutes or until a thermometer reads 160°. Let stand 10 minutes before slicing. Serve with reserved sauce.

MOM'S INFAMOUS MINCEMEAT PIE

Steps:

• Break mincemeat into small pieces and put in saucepan.
• Add diced apples, raisins, water and liquor.
• Boil about 2 minutes; cool.
• When mincemeat mixture is cool, put into pastry lined 9" pie pan; cover with top crust.
• Prick top crust with folk.
• Bake at 425 degrees for 35 minutes or until crust is golden brown.

MOM EVANS'MINCEMEAT

Steps:

• cook and drain the ground beef.
• stir all the rest of the ingredients together and add the beef.
• Stir until well-mixed and then place in the fridge for 24 hours before using.
• Mom would then make a bunch of pies and freeze them, bringing them out and warming them up in the oven.
• I freeze what I do not use immediately.