Mince pies
Mince pies

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, mince pies. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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

The ingredients needed to make Mince pies:
  1. Prepare 140 g cold butter
  2. Prepare 225 g plain flour
  3. Make ready 50 g ground almonds
  4. Take 50 g golden caster sugar
  5. Prepare Zest of 1 orange
  6. Make ready Pinch salt
  7. Make ready 1 egg yolk
  8. Make ready 1-2 tsp cold water
  9. Get Jar good quality mincemeat
  10. Prepare 1 egg
  11. Take Icing sugar (for dusting - optional)

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Steps 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

Mince Pies, also known as Mincemeat Tarts, consist of small rounds of short crust pastry filled with mincemeat. Mince pies - Recipes for traditional mince pies and mincemeat filling. Mince pies are small, individual, sweet pies that are traditionally served in the UK at Christmas time and around the New Year. Mince pies are synonymous with Christmas for a reason. This mince pies recipe takes a bit of time to prepare and you need to make the mixture the day before - but they're worth every fruity bite.

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