Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat
Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, last-minute christmas mincemeat. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

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

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

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