SC - mincemeat

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/13/98 11:13:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Seton1355 at aol.com writes:

<< I was reading some Elizabethan mincemeat recipies.  Question:  Is the idea
of
 mincemeat, to stretch the small amount of meat by the addition of the fruits
 etc?
 Phillipa >>

I would suspect that the idea of mincemeat was to preserve food. Once made
mincemeat keeps for a relatively long period of time when compared to meat in
other forms. The sugar acts as preservative.

Ras
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