Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, mince pies. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Orange zest added to the buttery crust of little, individual mincemeat pies adds sparkling flavor. Take some prepared mincemeat and stir in walnuts, diced apples, brown sugar, lemon juice and brandy. This rich filling is chilled overnight and then piled into a prepared crust, topped.

Mince pies is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Mince pies is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mince pies using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Mince pies:

1. Take cold butter
2. Prepare plain flour
3. Make ready ground almonds
4. Make ready golden caster sugar
5. Make ready Zest of 1 orange
6. Get salt
7. Make ready egg yolk
8. Make ready cold water
9. Take good quality mincemeat
10. Get egg
11. Make ready Icing sugar (for dusting - optional)

The filling for the mince pies typically uses suet which is an animal fat. Mince pies freeze very well, taking some of the headache out of all that Christmas preparation. If I make lots of these before Christmas, I freeze them raw and then cook them on the day. Leave to cool before releasing them from the muffin trays and dusting with a little more icing sugar before serving.

Instructions to make Mince pies:

1. Rub butter into flour with fingertips until you have a crumbly mixture
2. Add almonds, sugar, orange zest and salt and mix together with fingertips
3. Add egg yolk and water, bring all together and knead into a soft dough
4. Put in a plastic bag and put in the fridge for 30 minutes
5. Roll dough out on a lightly floured surface nice and thin (but still thick enough that it doesn't tear)
6. Cut out 18 holes and place each one into a greased mince pie tin.
7. Spoon mincemeat into each cup (don't overfill or it'll leak over in the oven - a level tsp or a little less should be plenty)
8. Cut out star/Christmas tree/holly shapes from the remaining dough and place on top.
9. Brush each mince pie with the beaten egg (this gives the pies a nice golden glaze) and put in a preheated oven at 180 for 12-15 mins (keep a close eye on them, they cook quickly and burn easily!)
10. After they've cooled, lightly sieve some icing sugar over them if you want to

An unanticipated problem was encountered, check back soon and try again Mincemeat is a classic pie flavor that traditionally contains fruit, pecans, brandy and citrus zest. The mincemeat is lovely in mince tarts or this Christmas mincemeat Bakewell tart. Featuring cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg in token of the gifts of the three Magi, mince pies were originally larger and shaped into ovals to represent the manger. Often a pastry was made that was shaped in the form of the infant Jesus and was placed on top of the pie. The mince pie would then be eaten in celebration of the birth of Christ.

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