How to Make Easy Mincemeat

Below is how to make easy mincemeat. Mincemeat is often used in ingredients in England and Europe but not so much in the US. Some mincemeat does not contain meat at all. There are difficult mincemeat recipes and there are easy mincemeat recipes. Mincemeat is used in mince pie as delicacies for Christmas time along with Christmas pudding in some countries such as in the United Kingdom.

Ingredients to make mincemeat the easy way

To make mincemeat the easy way you will need:

1. 3/4 cup suet
2. 1 lemon
3. 3/4 cup mixed peel
4. 1 cup raisins
5. 1 cup sultanas
6. 2 cups currants
7. 1 tsp of allspice
8. 2 small cooking apples
9. 2 1/2 tsp ground ginger
10. 1/2 cup chopped almonds
11. 1/4 tsp nutmeg
12. 1/2 cup + 2T brown sugar

How to make mincemeat? Place the currants, raisins and sultanas in a strainer. Wash them under the cold tap. Cut the apples into halves, then quarters and then smaller segments. Wash the lemon and dry with a tea towel. With a fine grater, gently grate off the outer rind into a small bowl.

Shake the strainer well, then pour them onto a clean tea towel and pat them dry.

Cut the peel from each segment and slice out the core from the centers.

Cut the lemon in half and squeeze out all the juice. Add the juice and rind to the large bowl.

Pour the into a large bowl. Add sugar, spices, almonds, mixed peel and suet.

Put a few segments at a time onto a chopping board and chop them up finely. Add the apple to the dried fruit.

Mix it up well using a wooden spoon. Leave the mixture covered for 24 hours.