WHO ATE ALL THE PIES?
Well, we did actually. I bought a box of twelve last week and there are only two left.
Now some might find that quite restrained, but for us it's positively naughty. Mr. as I've previously mentioned, doesn't have an overly sweet tooth, but at Christmas, he morphs into an eating machine.
Today, I decided to have a go at homemade, again. I have not had much success producing the kind of mince pies I like to eat. Last year's offering, a good example, had excellent tooth chipping properties. They would have gone down well on a clay pigeon shoot (as clays, not edibles).
This year I decided to use a pastry blender, instead of the food processor as I thought this might help with a lighter pastry. So armed with said trusty blender and a new pastry recipe, orange and almond pastry, I set to work.
Well I have to say that my arms and wrists are the weakest part of my body. I'm like a Tyrannosaurus Rex, mahoosive leg strength and tiny puny arms! On top of this, I injured my wrists last year, and they didn't like using the blender . I'd also doubled the ingredients, but found that it wouldn't come together properly so I thought, sod it, put it in the processor and it came together with the juice of a whole orange. I taste tested it raw and it was really delicious.
I used shop bought mincemeat that I doctored with booze. I have recently just found a recipe that is suet-less on Fenland Lottie's blog, which I have now added to my recipe collection and will use when I've used up what I have.
Now again, the pies were not a success, in my view, as my pastry/mincemeat ratio was off. I was trying to be healthy and rolled my pastry too thin, It's Christmas, what was I thinking! Mr. said they were lovely though and liked the thinner pastry, bless him (I think it was the 70% mincemeat myself). He's already polished off three of them and I only made them an hour ago, yep he's a human hoover,
Well, we did actually. I bought a box of twelve last week and there are only two left.
Now some might find that quite restrained, but for us it's positively naughty. Mr. as I've previously mentioned, doesn't have an overly sweet tooth, but at Christmas, he morphs into an eating machine.
Today, I decided to have a go at homemade, again. I have not had much success producing the kind of mince pies I like to eat. Last year's offering, a good example, had excellent tooth chipping properties. They would have gone down well on a clay pigeon shoot (as clays, not edibles).
This year I decided to use a pastry blender, instead of the food processor as I thought this might help with a lighter pastry. So armed with said trusty blender and a new pastry recipe, orange and almond pastry, I set to work.
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| How did that Snowball get there, hic! |
I used shop bought mincemeat that I doctored with booze. I have recently just found a recipe that is suet-less on Fenland Lottie's blog, which I have now added to my recipe collection and will use when I've used up what I have.
Now again, the pies were not a success, in my view, as my pastry/mincemeat ratio was off. I was trying to be healthy and rolled my pastry too thin, It's Christmas, what was I thinking! Mr. said they were lovely though and liked the thinner pastry, bless him (I think it was the 70% mincemeat myself). He's already polished off three of them and I only made them an hour ago, yep he's a human hoover,
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