BBC Food - Recipes - Mince pies
Make your own mincemeat and you won’t be disappointed. Add a grating of orange zest to your pastry for a unique flavour.
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Cooking tools:
- Mixing bowl
- Plastic wrap
- Fine-mesh sieve
- Rolling pin
- Pastry cutter
- Bun tin
- Fork
- Pastry brush
- Chef's knife
- Skewer
- Oven
- Cooling rack
- Sterilised jar
- Refrigerator
- Measuring spoon
- Measuring cup
- Kitchen scale
Ingredients
- 150g/5½oz raisins
- 150g/5½oz currants
- 75g/2½oz chopped mixed peel
- 3 tbsp brandy
- 150g/5½oz cold butter , grated
- 125g/4½oz dark brown soft sugar or muscovado sugar
- 1 vanilla pod , seeds scraped
- 1 tsp ground mixed spice
- 1 Bramley apple , peeled, grated, core discarded
- 1 orange , juice and zest
- 1 lemon , juice and zest
- 350g/12oz plain flour , plus extra for dusting
- 150g/5½oz unsalted butter , softened, cut into cubes
- 50g/1¾oz icing sugar , sifted
- 1 orange , zest only
- 2 free-range egg yolks
- 2 free-range eggs , beaten
- 50g/1¾oz demerara sugar
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