[Sca-cooks] Re: Favorite fruitcakes

[Elaine Koogler]

Actually, mincemeat was originally made with meat.  I can remember my
grandmother and aunts making it and canning it for use all year long.
They made it around the time when they butchered in the fall, after the
frost.  I have, somewhere, my grandmother's recipe for it...it's quite
long and complicated, as I recall.  I'll look around upstairs and see if
I can find it.  Failing that, I believe that Maggie Black's book on
Christmas foods through the ages has an old-fashioned mince-meat recipe
in it.

Kiri

Nelson Beth wrote:

> okay...not to show my lack of knowledge or anything ;)
> but I thought that mincemeat was made from the nuts
> not actual meat...am I missing something here or just
> been told REALLY wrong?
>
> Orlaith
>
> --- johnna holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
> wrote:
> > Actually our family recipe for fruitcake requires
> > that
> > you start months in advance and make mincemeat with
> > real meat that is canned. Then you make the
>
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