Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, last-minute christmas mincemeat. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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.
Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook last-minute christmas mincemeat using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat:
- Take 400 g dried fruit, I used raisins and sultanas only but you could also add dried cranberries, cherries, mixed peel etc
- Make ready 1 eating apple, peeled
- Take 100 g marzipan, grated
- Get 50 g butter
- Prepare 50 g chopped almonds or cashew nuts
- Prepare 75 g soft muscovado sugar
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Prepare 1 tsp mixed spice
- Prepare finely grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
- Take 200 ml brandy, rum or whiskey
There is very little work involved. Put the peeled and grated Bramley apples, light muscovado sugar and the zest and juice of the orange and lemon into a large bowl with the ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, allspice, mixed dried fruit and brandy. Parmesan Twists with Anchovy or Sesame and Poppy Seeds. Quick Stir-fried Spiced Red Cabbage with Apples.
Instructions to make Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat:
- 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.
- Grate the marzipan and the apple. Put in a pan together with the dried fruit, nuts and butter.
- 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.
- Simmer gently for about 10 minutes, then leave to cool. When completely cool add and stir in the rum, whiskey or brandy.
- 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.
Delia Smith does a fancier version as a last-minute Christmas cake. Growing up in Ireland my Mum would make them in October and have them all ready to give to Aunties and friends by the time the holidays came around. I remember it being a big process because even after the puddings were mixed then they had to be wrapped up with string and foil and. So if, like me, this Christmas has snuck up on you far too quickly, consider this cake a truly easy, tasty alternative to the traditional variety, perfect for last-minute gifts or those family members who drop-in unannounced. This cake absolutely could not be simpler.
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