Mince Pie Appreciation

@Balki: Nothing cagey here. Just mince pie appreciation (which you seem not to share?).

That reply has, sort of, put some of your more random ones in to context. Someone out there was rolling around laughing, rather than staring somewhat puzzledly at their screen before giving in to a bemused chuckle! Genius.

I have no idea what you're talking about. Anyway, new forum name for you!

I have to recommend these:

They really are great. The pastry is really great, not too short nor too sweet. Overrall they remind me of fig rolls a little, which is fantastic as far as I'm concerned. They have a chewiness to them.

8.5/10

I got a box of these in a hamper from work, which I've just got round to actually digging around in, and box of these included.....and these are beauts.....mmm mmmm!!

Is there anywhere still selling mince pies? I have a powerful hunger for mince pies.

Is it too early?

Never. The inventor of them was clearly a genius. People who produce these little festive delights can get it so right (like my mother, who has the ability to produce about a thousand every year), and people can get it so wrong. Like those purveyors of death, Greggs.

Greggs mince pies are ace. Clearly the best "high street" pies. I mean, would you rather have a Mr Kipling?

Agreed. Everything else they sell is pretty shite, but I had some right nice pies from there last year

Had a thought, you know how there was the Apple Pie & Crumble Bake Off a while back?

Anyone up for a Mince Pie off? Sometime in December?

I just went to Greggs (a habit I picked up while living in Newcastle) and their Viennese mince pies actually do taste bloody great.

Quoting myself from last December. Greggs is usually filth, but these are full of win and mince.

I went there today on a mince pie recce, but alas, I fear I am too early. Which is weird because the shops are full of Xmas tat already.....bah

I adore mince pies. My girfriend just doesn't seem to understand my affection for them.

It must be something to do with the production line my mother had running with military precision prior to the festive season when I was a small boy.

Anything other than the ones made by the fair hands of mother of b&d just don't match up.

Greggs - smegs!

http://www.konditorandcook.com/

Cocktail Mince Pies FTW

three types yesterday,
scoffing them like theres no tommorrow,
cant understand why they arent available all year,

still going with last years best as nomination, until I find something better,
the addition of thick single cream on warmed pie is unmissable

Warmed pie.....fnar!

..the addition of thick single cream on warmed pie is unmissable

or, lever the top slightly from the pie, insert a small slice of stilton, then warm

avant garde ^^ will try that later,

dont slack people, plenty to do

That lot and two pints of tea would do me fine right now!
(£1.40 for a single pan au chocolat?? Fuck off!!)

That lot and two pints of tea would do me fine right now!
(£1.40 for a single pan au chocolat?? Fuck off!!)

Welcome to London my friend. We don't have Greggs here

(do we?)

oh and on-topic: mince pies are bloody great. I fully intend to eat my bodyweight in them and satsumas this christmas

dont slack people, plenty to do

I'm pretty sure that should be 'pain aux raisins'. 'Pain au raisin' sounds painful and unreasonable.

Chapeau, Oliver.

I think I'd chose raisin over pain.

m&s all butter luxury mince pies = win.

Warmed pie though......fnar!

Just having my first pie of the season - a lowly co-operative deep filled - sure is warming my pie cockles though - damn I've missed you