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Felicity Cloake’s mince pie masterclass: an easy step-by-step recipe | Felicity Cloake’s masterclass | Food | The Guardian
When people claim they don’t like mince pies, I feel compelled to assure them it’s just the commercial version they object to – if they tried homemade ones, with their crumbly, buttery pastry and fruit-packed filling, they’d agree I was right. Admittedly, this cooksplaining doesn’t always go down terribly well, especially after a couple of festive sherries, but the pies themselves usually do.
Mince pies tasted by baker Alice Fevronia: ‘It screams Christmas’ | Food | The Guardian
Alice Fevronia is nervous. The Great British Bake Off finalist has just pelted over to our test kitchen straight from her school, where she still works as a geography teacher, and she’s visibly overwhelmed by the task at hand. “I’m slightly nervous that people might change their purchasing habits based on me,” she frets as she sits before a colossal pile of supermarket mince pies. “This will require much more nuance than just picking between a right answer or a wrong answer on an exam paper.”
From puff pastry to crumble … how we offer mince pies for all tastes at Asda – ASDA Corporate
Which? reveals its pick of the best supermarket luxury mince pies | Business | The Guardian
This year’s best mince pies are from Marks & Spencer, according to baking experts at Which?, with Iceland the much cheaper runner-up.
The panel blind-tested 11 supermarket premium mince pies to uncover the most delicious, as well as the blandest, wettest and least appetising.
7 Ways To Eat A Mince Pie by Sheepa Miah | Tabl
7 Ways To Eat A Mince Pie
It’s mince pie season, and whilst everyone is on the search to find this year’s best mince pie, we’ve explored the different ways to eat one.
Although the answer may seem obvious, we’ve found that some people like to eat it with all sorts of toppings (probably because the flavour of these little fruity snacks isn’t to everyone’s taste). So how do you like to eat your mince pie?
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How Do You Eat Your Mince Pies?
Mince pie-stuffed cookies are coming this Christmas – Twisted
It might be the most wonderful time of the year, but Christmas can also cause plenty of controversy. Alongside the indisputably awesome essentials of presents, alcohol and turkey, the celebration is stuffed full of seasonal “treats” that many people would sooner spit in Santa’s face than eat. Perhaps the most contentious of these is the mince pie.
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How to eat: mince pies | Food | The Guardian
In 1733, the Gentleman’s Magazine carried a short reflection on mince pies – née Christmas pyes – that, among other observations, noted how puritanical Quakers swerved them on the basis that they are an “invention of the Scarlet Whore of Babylon, an Hodge-Podge of Superstition, Popery, the Devil and all his Works”.
Continue reading How to eat: mince pies | Food | The Guardian
Asda launches gin-infused mince pies and our festive snacks are sorted | Marie Claire
There’s something we’re very excited to try – Asda’s gin-infused mince pies.
If you’re not a fan of a traditional mince pie, or you love them but fancy trying your favorite festive snack with a twist, these mouthfuls of merriment are filled with spiced vine fruit and a splash of sloe gin, encased in an all-butter pastry, topped with a sweet sugar dusting.

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