Christmas Mincemeat- pies and tarts

[Old Hippie]

My mum used to make a real corker of a mincemeat pie. She always included tart pie cherries in the mixture, as she learned from my maternal grandmother. Beef was her usual meat, though if someone had enough venison lying around uneaten she'd use that.

My recipe (straight out of the Ball Blue Book) is the Green Tomato Mincemeat. I've made it both vegetarian and non-vegetarian and like it fine. Our local organic market supplies a very nice vegan mince that I will use this year.

Odd though it sounds, didn't have many usable green tomatoes at the end of the season. We switched to a different variety, which picked green will ripen from the inside out and stay juicy. We'll still have fresh tomatoes two meals a day in February.

[mexpiper]

I love mincemeat pie. Used to have a fellow choir member, give me a nice slice of mincemeat pie for thanksgiving... it was about 4 inches deep! I was in Niagara on the Lake on Thursday and stopped at the bakery and purchased my Mincemeat Tarts (large size of course!) had it for lunch today! It was soo good!