Recipe: Yummy Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat

Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat. Browse Our Great Selection of Books & Get Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders! Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat Joanne Bath, UK. Mincemeat is meant to be made about three months in advance, to give time for the flavour and texture to develop.

Method Even though this is last-minute, it's best to pre-soak the fruits if you can. Last-minute cranberry mincemeat This jewelled mincemeat takes minutes to make and can be used immediately. Our last-minute Christmas pudding is a genius quick-fix dessert, as it simply requires microwaving. You can cook Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat

1. Prepare of dried fruit, I used raisins and sultanas only but you could also add dried cranberries, cherries, mixed peel etc.
2. You need of eating apple, peeled.
3. You need of marzipan, grated.
4. You need of butter.
5. It's of chopped almonds or cashew nuts.
6. It's of soft muscovado sugar.
7. It's of ground cinnamon.
8. Prepare of mixed spice.
9. Prepare of finely grated rind and juice of 1 lemon.
10. Prepare of brandy, rum or whiskey.

Stir in the grated unsalted butter or shredded suet and ground almonds. Quick Stir-fried Spiced Red Cabbage with Apples. Spiced Turkey in a Creamed Coconut Sauce. The 'How to Cheat' Christmas Pudding.

Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat instructions

1. Mix the dried fruit together. Weigh the nuts and break them up gently with the end of a rolling pin or chop roughly with a knife..
2. Grate the marzipan and the apple. Put in a pan together with the dried fruit, nuts and butter..
3. Add the sugar and spices and grate in the lemon zest, then squeeze the lemon and add the juice to the pan. Cover and heat gently, stirring as the butter and marzipan melt so everything mixes together..
4. Simmer gently for about 10 minutes, then leave to cool. When completely cool add and stir in the rum, whiskey or brandy..
5. I left it to stand for a while longer as it looked too liquid, and in about an hour or two the rum had been absorbed into the fruit. I then transferred it to jars (two of them) left them to stand overnight, then used the mincemeat to make mince pies the next day, see separate recipe..

In case you are wondering, Christmas mincemeat is not, as the name suggests, made from meat, although it once was. It does contain suet, however, a saturated animal fat that's used in British baking, but there are vegetarian suet options; you can also use vegetable shortening (freeze it first). You can buy some very good mincemeat, but when it is home-made it really is in another league, and once you make it yourself, you'll never look back. This recipe is from Delia's Happy Christmas. If the mincemeat starts to look dry as it matures, add a little more brandy.