I brought all my ingredients this week to make my Christmas Cake and Christmas Mincemeat. I have never made either before, and decided now that I am a grownup, its about time I started another new christmas tradition.
So currently I have just over 1kg of mixed fruit soaking in a huge amount of brandy, getting ready to become a cake. I am using the receipe of Nanna - my husbands great gran I think - and it has curry in it. Curry in a Christmas Cake? It is an extremely well used recipe though, so am not doubting it.
I thought it time I invest in a proper square tin - so after I paid a small fortune for my new cake tin the lady in the shop reassured me I would be passing this tin onto my daughter when I was 'beautiful and wrinkled', so here is hoping. I am glad she didn't say grey, because that is already happening...
My first attempt at mincemeat and I used the Edmonds recipe. It looked somewhat different from every other mincemeat I have ever seen. I did find this link though of another lady who has used the same recipe and it seems that she had the same outcome - definately the recipe then. I may of misread the recipe, as I only grated down the apple, and just chucked the rest of the fruit in in chunks. I possibly was supposed to grate everything down ... oh well. Also when I put the mincemeat into the jars, I topped them up with extra brandy ... these may be adult only Christmas Mince Tarts!
Tomorrow I am going to try the Alison Holst recipe and see how different the two are. This will mean I will have a huge amount of mincemeat, but lucky I love Christmas Mince Tarts.
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