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The ingredients needed to make Tex's Classic British Xmas Mince Pies 🍲🍎🍋🍷🎄🎅🇬🇧:

1. Prepare ready-rolled shortcrust pastry
2. Get caster sugar for dusting
3. Get ⭐
4. Make ready ⭐Mincemeat⭐
5. Get Bramley apple (peeled cored and finely diced)
6. Get of a lemon
7. Prepare brandy (or rum or dry sherry)
8. Get light brown sugar
9. Prepare sultanas
10. Take raisins
11. Prepare currants
12. Make ready cranberries
13. Make ready suet or butter (cubed)
14. Get mixed peel
15. Get blanched almonds finely chopped
16. Prepare mixed spice (not allspice)
17. Get cinnamon

Individual mincemeat pies are a classic British Christmas treat but another delicious pie is a mincemeat and apple tart. Rather than a small individual mince pie, the mincemeat and apple tart is a whole open-topped pie which sliced is a lovely tea-time delicacy, or served with custard or brandy sauce, a great pudding. The mincemeat is lovely in mince tarts or this Christmas mincemeat Bakewell tart. I will always cherish fond memories of my mother's and my grandmother's cooling trays piled high with freshly baked mince pies on Christmas Eve, ready to be packed into tins and brought out whenever friends popped in for Christmas drinks.

Steps to make Tex's Classic British Xmas Mince Pies 🍲🍎🍋🍷🎄🎅🇬🇧:

1. Scald off a 500 grams jar by filling with boiling water then emptying. Preheat the oven to gas mark 6/200°C (400°F)
2. Add the juice and zest from the lemon with all the other mincemeat ingredients, except for the brandy to a saucepan and heat gently until the suet has melted. When done, heat on low for a further 10 minutes stirring occasionally
3. Let the mincemeat cool completely, then stir in the brandy and seal in your jar. Leave in the refrigerator until ready to use. Any jarred up leftovers from this mix will be amazing next Xmas
4. If using ready-rolled pastry, take out of the fridge 45 minutes before using. After 45 minutes, give it a further 10 seconds in the microwave then leave 1 minute to stand.
5. Cut your pastry on a wooden board to minimise temperature change. Use a medium pastry cutter to cut 6-9 circles,depending on the size of your bun tray
6. Line the cups of an oiled and flour dredged bun tray…
7. …with the pastry circles. Use a small pastry cutter to cut lids large enough to cover the pies
8. ..and fill with the mincemeat (about 1 tablespoon per pie)
9. Wet the edges of the pies with water. Add the lids, trim and seal
10. Pop in the oven for 35 minutes until baked
11. Remove from the oven and dust with caster sugar while hot
12. Merry Christmas 🎄 🎅 serve hot or cold…

The following is the traditional family recipe. The Welsh baking stone can be used in the oven like a pizza stone, for pastries, pies, and breads, or on the stove top, where they're great for cooking flat breads. Finish assembly by adding a little lettuce and some more tomato, then drizzling with a little more Thousand Island dressing. Tex's Classic British Xmas Mince Pies Mince pies have literally gone down in history as an inseparable component of Christmas holiday tradition. These fruity mince pies featuring homemade pastry with hints of fresh orange are classic sweet treats to serve this Christmas season.

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