Making mincemeat, in non-gory pictures. 26 November 2008 8:02 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,dessert,pictures , View CommentsWe’re talking the kind without meat, here, for pie. I used the recipe in Baking Illustrated, since Kevin demonstrated its awesomeness at last year’s Thanksgiving. We’re at Peter’s parents’ house in the frozen northlands upstate, so I can’t relate the exact recipe, but I can tell you it involved just over three pounds of Greenmarket apples, 3 pounds of apples, plus golden raisins, dried currants (which are just small raisins, did you know that? I’m still a little shocked myself), orange and lemon juice and zest, brown sugar, spices, and oh yeah… a whole stick of butter. NOM. Here’s what the cooking process looked like:
