I remember my mother making minced meat cookies. It was a soft biscuit. She made a lot of cookies and kept the rest in an airtight container and put them in the freezer for a later treat. This is not the original recipe for minced meat. The original recipe was to cook a pig`s head, then take all the meat and chop it with the other ingredients. I made my own ground meat, made a cake or two every year for Christmas when the kids were little, my son makes one from time to time. He buys the glass of minced meat and mainly adds sautéed hamburger meat, which is enough for venison. Good memories!! A recipe for minced meat with apples appeared in a 1910 edition of the Irish Times using apples, tallow, currants, sugar, raisins, orange juice, lemons, spices and brandy. From the mid to late eighteenth century, minced meat in Europe was associated with old-fashioned, rural or domestic foods. Victorian England has rehabilitated the preparation as a traditional Christmas treat. Ground pies and pies are often eaten during the Christmas season. In the northeastern United States, ground meat pies are also a traditional part of Thanksgiving. As for ground meat, which is not even worthy enough to be called a cake, I used the same bowl of dough and then added store-bought minced meat.
My grandmother made minced meat according to her own recipe and my mother and other family members loved it. We children would not touch this kind of thing. My grandmother made cakes, cookies and cakes with this stuff. She ended up passing it on to my mother. She simply can`t give it except to people her age. Ground meat is also delicious, although the difference with in-store shopping is less obvious. Historically, ground meat has been a way to preserve meat with sugar and alcohol without smoke or salt. The meat of choice was rather mutton. My mother made minced meat cakes for Christmas.
I did it after I got married. Everyone on both sides loved them in the UK, as far as I know, we only eat minced meat pies around Christmas. Poor Alex, accustomed to a trapped and quiet audience, has been turned into a kind of minced meat by Colbert, who played the role of the “high school kid” who has no interest in music beyond the superficial. Have you ever wondered how ground meat got its funny name? And what about this robust infusion of chopped dried fruits, distilled spirits or brandy and spicy spices (and in centuries past, it was made with beef, beef tallow or game) that turns many into professed sidekicks but leaves some of us safe?! Once the minced meat is made, it is traditionally cooked in flat cakes with a diameter of about 5 cm. My mother made a minced meat pie with real meat. All the kids loved it, but we don`t have their recipe. Dad didn`t remember or wouldn`t tell us. Does anyone have any old recipes that might be identical to mom`s? It tasted sweeter than commercial ground meat. I think there was pork and dates.
I don`t know what else. She was from eastern Kentucky. Something to cut minced meat is a good idea, but it`s exclusively for cannedding lovers, with a starch-thickened sweet yellow goo cover that does its best to mask the spiciness of ground meat and artificially tasting pastries. Ok non-critical thinker. Here`s your chance to make “ground meat” with me. I made ground meat according to a recipe from the Farm Journal Freezing and Canning Cookbook. I used game, chopped apples, raisins, currants, cider and many spices and cooked everything together. Then I pressurized the mixture to preserve it.
Make the most beautiful cakes. Records also tell us that cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and mace were added to meat dishes of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, which may have been the precursor to sweet ground meat as we know it. MI 11. In the nineteenth century, members of the Crusades who returned from the Holy Land brought with them oriental spices. I make minced meat cakes every year. I use the packaged brand NONSUCH MINCEMEAT. Not the glass. There is a difference in taste. My mother used NONSUCH BRAND.
I LOVE IT, BUT NOT MANY FAMILY MEMBERS DO IT. I love ground meat cake. I used to refine them in the frozen food department. They are now difficult to punish. Minced meat prepared in jars is also difficult to amend. Love ground meat cake!! I love pure ground meat. When I was little, my family did it every winter. I liked eating it straight from the huge sink where we mixed it. I remember one year we cooked a real pig`s head for meat. It was a lot of work.
We would mix “everything but the kitchen sink” into our recipe. as well as most of the ingredients you listed. Laughing out loud. My grandmother always used deer neck meat to make minced meat. With apples, raisins, currents, cloves, cinnamon and allspice. The recipe also called for beef tallow. My mother did it after Grandma died, and now that she`s gone, I`m going to try to do it. I`m the only one in the family who eats it, but it`s not Christmas without a real minced meat cake. I love ground meat cake. I think I`m the only person in my family who does that. I know I`m the only one who loves fruit cake too and isn`t afraid to admit it. haha Do you have a favorite fruit cake? My mother made minced meat when we were growing up, with green tomatoes, raisins, currents and other dried fruits.
I continued to do so every year. Much better than the super cute stuff in stores. Try this variation of the traditional candy bite to sweeten your vacation or every day and attract those clever minced meat to the dessert table! I can`t find anywhere in stores these days. I was able to buy Mince Pie trim at Walmart last year and made my own cake. It went pretty well! I bought another drink this year and plan to make another cake closer to Christmas. However, I will be the only one to eat it. I try to tell people, “It`s just fruit!” Maybe I should make one and bring it to work to spread the good word of Mince Pie! 🙂 I have an old recipe that makes minced meat. It is made with ground green tomatoes, butter, brown sugar, apples, oranges, raisins, cinnamon, cloves, current jelly. It is fruity and sweet and makes a wonderful cake or stuffed cookies. The recipe is 6 liters or 12 pints, I can make it and have it on hand to cook with. My husband and I love it, much better than what you can buy in the store.
I have fond memories of how we made our own ground meat for cakes. My mother did the scabs because none of the girls in the family ever had the same talent for this role. We used venison for the meat and the girls all helped prepare the fruit while the men cut and cut the meat. I`m the only one in my immediate family or circle of friends who loves ground meat toppings. I buy the one prepared in a jar, but it`s too super sweet as prepared, so I cut the contents with some very acidic chopped apples. English recipes of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries describe a fermented mixture of meat and fruit used as a cake filling. These early recipes included vinegars and wines, but in the 18th century, distilled spirits, often brandy, were used instead. The use of spices such as cloves, nutmeg, mace and cinnamon was common in meat dishes of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. The increase in sweetness of added sugar made ground meat less tasty and helped shift its use to desserts. I like it when one part makes ground meat from another or threatens to do so. The “minced meat” in minced meat comes from the Middle English Mincen and Old French Mincier, both of which can be attributed to the Vulgar Latin minutiare, meaning finely chopped.
The word minced meat is an adaptation of an earlier term minced meat, which means finely ground meat.
