Recipe: Festive Mince Pies
Makes 12 Pies
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 15 minutes.
Recipe from “Christmas, simple and delicious easy-to-make recipes” by Marks & Spencer.
All the tasters for our reviews volunteered. They are all true Mince Pie fans, and have contributed their opinions to further our quest to find “The Ultimate Mince Pie”.
Centuries ago the mince pie would have been a large dish filled with various meats such as chicken, partridge, pigeon, hare, capon, pheasant, rabbits, ox or lamb tongue, livers of the animals, and mutton meat mixed with fruits, peels and sugar. It was originally known as a Christmas Pye.