Mince Pie Appreciation

favourite mice pies of yesteryear:

starbuck's (shameful, i know)
pret (they're pretty good!)
st john's (until i realised that the reason they're so good is because they probably contain vast amounts of LARD)

i'm anti-puffed pastry for a mince pie. i'd go as far as to try to have eu legislation against it.

I fucking love mince pies.
I reckon I could eat twelve or thirteen or seventeen at a sitting.
Mince pies and a big mug of tea.
Ace.

I've read about mince pies that include meat.
Proper meat, like beef or something.
Perversely, i really fancy giving that a go.
Apparently that's how they were traditionally made, donkey's years ago.
Maybe it was donkey meat.
I don't know.

Best mince pies I ever had are made by my mates wife.
She's a great cook.
After they're cooked and cooled she lifts off the lid and puts a spoonful of brandy butter inside, then keeps them in the fridge.
When you want one, she pops them in the microwave, melting the butter and warming them through.
Magic.
I once saw her fanny after she'd been to the gym.
It really got me fizzy.
I wonder if the thought of her fanny improves the taste of her mince pies?

I've read about mince pies that include meat.
Proper meat, like beef or something.

I think they are called pies.

No!
Sweet mincemeat and cow mincemeat, mixed up with a big spoon.
Controversial.

Controversial? Thats fucked!

You can keep your old fruit. Steak and Mushroom... now thats a mans pie.

They call them mince pies for a reason... pies for fuckin mincers.

Had my first of the season on Monday eve.... it was at the waldolf; very nice indeed.
Our sales reps start sending them through with orders about this time of year.... its bad when EVERY DAY there is a box of 'em open in your office. I've the will power of a gnat.
Am going to try making some this weekend if someone has a fail safe recipe. Must I have a special mince pie tin?

Fair enough.
This sounds pretty good though.
Found an old recipe online:

Take a leg of mutton, cut the best flesh of the best flesh (whatever that means!) from the bone. parboil well, then put to it three pounds of best mutton suet and shred it very small: then spread it abroad. and season it with pepper and salt, cloves and mace. Then put in a good store of currants, great raisins, and prunes, cleaned washed and picked, a few dates sliced, and some orange peel sliced: then being all well mixed together, put into a pie (old English, coffin!), or divers pies. and so bake them; and when they are served up, open the lids and strew store of sugar on top of the meat and upon the lid.

     And in this sort you may also bake beef or veal; only           the beef would not be parboiled, and the veal will ask a double quantity           of suet. 

      From: The English Houswife, 1623

I'd give it a go.

Fair enough.
This sounds pretty good though.
Found an old recipe online:

Take a leg of mutton, cut the best flesh of the best flesh (whatever that means!) from the bone. parboil well, then put to it three pounds of best mutton suet and shred it very small: then spread it abroad. and season it with pepper and salt, cloves and mace. Then put in a good store of currants, great raisins, and prunes, cleaned washed and picked, a few dates sliced, and some orange peel sliced: then being all well mixed together, put into a pie (old English, coffin!), or divers pies. and so bake them; and when they are served up, open the lids and strew store of sugar on top of the meat and upon the lid.

     And in this sort you may also bake beef or veal; only           the beef would not be parboiled, and the veal will ask a double quantity           of suet. 

      From: The English Houswife, 1623

I'd give it a go.

Get your mates wife to cook em up, and send em my way. With a Polaroid of course. (If she can find any film)

Waitrose, 6 for $2.19 and they taste the best. I think they've got a bit of pernod in em.

Waitrose has best reduced shit too. the other day I got a whole cheesecake, and a "gourmet mousakka" for a quid fifty, down from about 8 pound each

Does anyone remember the mcdonald's festive pies?

They were awesome!

They had custard in them too!!

^Guaranteed to take a layer of skin off the roof of your mouth.......molten hot

I had a Co-Op 'Luxury' mince pie today....it were alright, nothing to write home about like......

I want a fucking mince pie.

I demand one.

^You'll be demanding figgy pudding next......

Yup, and a fishy in little dishy please.

Controversial? Thats fucked!

You can keep your old fruit. Steak and Mushroom... now thats a mans pie.

They call them mince pies for a reason... pies for fuckin mincers.

+1

Mincemeat is horrible crap.

Minced Beef on the other hand. yum

Mincemeat is horrible crap.

Get out.

+1

This thread is not for you, you are not welcome here.

I had a pack from Somerfield yesterday. OK. Nothing amazing. There's a Morrisons near the office too - will try there today. Is eating six mince pies a day bad for me?

+1

This thread is not for you, you are not welcome here.

I had a pack from Somerfield yesterday. OK. Nothing amazing. There's a Morrisons near the office too - will try there today. Is eating six mince pies a day bad for me?

Morrsions are doing 3 for the price of 1 on mr kiplings mince pies. I'm not really a fan of me kipling stuff, but just incase.

Mince pies

Pies for fuckwits.

Morrsions are doing 3 for the price of 1 on mr kiplings mince pies. I'm not really a fan of me kipling stuff, but just incase.

So I ask you if eating six a day is bad for me, and you give me a way to eat 18 for the same cost?

Nice.

OK its in the daily mail....... but
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1096764/Crumbs-A-single-mince-pie-takes-mile-slog-burn-off.html

Actually having read the article its rubbish - not just cause its in the dm... a study in brisbane - we don't do mince pies in oz. Well we do, but you eat em hot with sauce.

MrsO makes the country's best mince pies.

No further debate necessary.

Morrsions are doing 3 for the price of 1 on mr kiplings mince pies. I'm not really a fan of me kipling stuff, but just incase.

have you seen the awful looking factory in Eastleigh where they turn out that crap? Don't be convinced by the homey-cooky packaging and the glib advertising. It's processed food on an industrial scale.