Posted on 10/26/2023 7:51:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
NATIONAL MINCEMEAT DAY
National Mincemeat Day celebrates a 15th-century English recipe mixing spiced meat and fruit. Bake up a batch on October 26th!
#MincemeatDay Originally, mincemeat served as a way of preserving meat without salting or smoking. Bakers then used the filling to make mince pies. They became a unique part of holiday dinners. In some families, mincemeat pies still find a place at the holiday dinner table today. Many modern recipes contain only fruit, sometimes with liquor as an added ingredient.
You may have heard stories about mincemeat pie from your grandparents, aunts, and uncles or possibly read about it in a book. However, if you have never had the opportunity to try one, National Mincemeat Day would be the day to do so.
HOW TO OBSERVE MINCEMEAT DAY
Do you have an old mincemeat recipe? Does it call for spiced meat or just fruit? We would love to hear about family memories and your take on the flavors of mincemeat. Whether you consider it sweet and spice or just plain strange, tell us. Share your recipes or bake up a batch and share photo on social media. Be sure to include family in the making, too!
Following are some mincemeat recipes for you: LINKS AT SITE............
Mincemeat Pie Filling
Homemade Mincemeat
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NATIONAL MINCEMEAT DAY HISTORY
National Day Calendar® continues researching the origins of this tasty holiday.
Mincemeat FAQ
Q. Is mincemeat only used in pies?
A. No, but holiday cooks usually use mincemeat in some sort of sweet dishes like pastries and bars.
Q. What is suet?
A. Suet is a hard, crumbly fat found near an animal's kidneys. It has a variety of uses including baking, soap making, and bird feed.
The ‘taste’ is mucho bettero!............Animal fat vs vegetable fat.................
My mom always made Mincemeat pies for meals at either Thanksgiving or Christmas, or both.
With 8 kids she made the simple kind, with the Mincemeat filling from a jar - which does not contain meat, just everything else. She did, as do I, make her own pie crust from scratch. I usually make one or two Mincemeat pies around the Thanksgiving and/or Christmas.
As with my siblings when I was young, and still, and with my family now, some do not like the Mincemeat pies at all, while some, like me, really like them.
When I was very young, about three or four, a much older brother would always tell us that Mincemeat was made from chopped up little “minces”, which he would say were like mice. Somehow it never kept us from trying mom’s Mincemeat pies.
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