Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, last-minute christmas mincemeat. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook last-minute christmas mincemeat using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
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
- Prepare 100 g marzipan, grated
- Get 50 g butter
- Make ready 50 g chopped almonds or cashew nuts
- Get 75 g soft muscovado sugar
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 1 tsp mixed spice
- Take finely grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
- Get 200 ml brandy, rum or whiskey
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.
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