Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, last-minute christmas mincemeat. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

The mincemeat is lovely in mince tarts or this Christmas mincemeat Bakewell tart. Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat Mincemeat is meant to be made about three months in advance, to give time for the flavour and texture to develop. I thought that maybe with a cooked version this might not be necessary so I adapted a Mary Berry mincemeat recipe, and it worked.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have last-minute christmas mincemeat using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat:

1. Take dried fruit, I used raisins and sultanas only but you could also add dried cranberries, cherries, mixed peel etc
2. Take eating apple, peeled
3. Take marzipan, grated
4. Make ready butter
5. Get chopped almonds or cashew nuts
6. Take soft muscovado sugar
7. Prepare ground cinnamon
8. Take mixed spice
9. Take finely grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
10. Get brandy, rum or whiskey

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Steps to make Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat:

1. Mix the dried fruit together. Weigh the nuts and break them up gently with the end of a rolling pin or chop roughly with a knife.
2. Grate the marzipan and the apple. Put in a pan together with the dried fruit, nuts and butter.
3. Add the sugar and spices and grate in the lemon zest, then squeeze the lemon and add the juice to the pan. Cover and heat gently, stirring as the butter and marzipan melt so everything mixes together.
4. Simmer gently for about 10 minutes, then leave to cool. When completely cool add and stir in the rum, whiskey or brandy.
5. I left it to stand for a while longer as it looked too liquid, and in about an hour or two the rum had been absorbed into the fruit. I then transferred it to jars (two of them) left them to stand overnight, then used the mincemeat to make mince pies the next day, see separate recipe.

When the mincemeat is quite cold, stir well again, adding the brandy. Pack in jars that have been sterilised (see below). When filled, cover with waxed discs and seal. Vegetarian can make this mincemeat happily, using vegetarian suet. It is Christmas Eve and late last night my wife mentioned that we are taking a cake to my sister-in-law's on Christmas Day.

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