Yikes! That's definitely an old one.
I found the following in an old cookbook which my Mother used in the
'30s and '40s. It sounds pretty close to the original ingredients, and
at least they have given us measures!
4 pounds lean beef
2 pounds beef suet
Baldwin apples
3 quinces
3 pounds sugar
2 cups molasses
2 quarts cider
3 pounds currants
4 pounds raisins, seeded and cut in
pieces
1/2 pound finely cut citron
1 quart grape juice or cooking brandy
1 tablespoon cinnamon and mace
1 tablespoon powdered clove
2 grated nutmegs
1 teaspoon pepper
Salt to taste
Cover meat and suet with boiling water and cook until tender.
Cool in water in which they are cooked; the suet will rise to top,
forming a cake of fat, which may be easily removed. Chop meat
fine and add it to twice the amount of finely chopped apples. The
apples should be quartered, cored, and pared previous to chopping,
or skins may be left on, which is not an objection if apples are
finely chopped. Add quinces finely chopped, sugar, molasses, cider,
raisins, currants, and citron; also suet, and stock in which meat and
suet were cooked reduced to 1 1/2 cups. Heat gradually, stir occasionally,
and cook slowly 2 hours; then add grape juice or brandy
and spices.
A recipe following this one instructs us to assemble the pie with two
crusts.
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Clay
Brenda Paternoster wrote:
Hi Sue
The best I can offer is from
http://www.mincepieclub.co.uk/Mince_Pie_News/Mince_Pie_History/The_History_Of_The_Mince_Pie.html
"To make Pyes - Pyes of mutton or beif must be fyne mynced and
ceasoned wyth pepper and salte, and a lyttle saffron to coloure it,
suet or marrow a good quantite, a lyttle vyneger, prumes, greate
raysins and dates, take thefattest of the broathe of powdred beyfe,
and yf you wyll have paest royall, take butter and yolkes of egges and
so tempre the flowre to make the paeste."
Brenda
On 15 Dec 2008, at 14:29, Sue Duckles wrote:
Just been on Brenda's site to see todays offering (15th).
My husband wants the 'original recipe'!!
Sue in EY
On 15 Dec 2008, at 10:33, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
and a reminder that there's a link to the Advent calendar on my
homepage
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