[Sca-cooks] Re: Favorite fruitcakes

[Diana Skaggs]

At 08:05 AM 10/22/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Someone's been pulling your leg- real mincemeat is made with meat. The
>stuff they call mincemeat that is nothing but raisins and figs and stuff
>is an interesting filling, but it isn't mincemeat. The best mincemeat is
>made with venison... and it has brandy...
>
>Ooh... are the holidays nearly here already?
>
>'Lainie

Mincemeat, faugh!
Wouldn't eat the stuff. Then I ate my mother-in-law's mincemeat pie, and it
was OK. (Only tasted out of politeness) Seems she has a recipe for
mincemeat made with pears. I liked it much better than the stuff made with
meat.

Liadan