While we're doing off the wall topics and such.

I love the stuff.

Yuk

My grandparents ate the hell out of it.
None for me thanks

never had it. just looked up a recipe. sounds interesting

No, NO, HELL NO!

Mom makes it.
We were at supper there awhile back, she had made one
for a friend that was visiting. I ask for a VERY small piece to try.
Been awhile, maybe I like it now?
No, nothing chnged!

Put it right up there with Rhubarb.
I hope I'm never, ever, hungry enough to want to eat some.

That and good fruitcake.
I know there’s going to be a bunch of folks disagree with that, but I don’t give a schitt what other people like or don’t like to eat.

Rhubarb pie, with or without strawberries! Yum.
And rhubarb sauce to go over a bowl of vanilla ice cream! Yum.

But this is about mincemeat pie.

I think I'm going to have to look for one for the holiday. I'll get to eat it myself, as the wife doesn't like it.

More for me!

Haven't had mincemeat pie in years. Was a favorite of mine, along with shoo-fly pie.

Never took a liking to it.
Pass the pecan pie.

😋 rhubarb pie!

Used to have it every Christmas when I was a kid. Haven’t seen it in 30 years.

My wife is French Canadian. Is this like Tourtiere? It’s a staple in our house during the Christmas season.

It’s good with eggs in the mornings is all I can say.

Blech

It should be called raisin pie.No meat in it.

Most mincemeat I've seen since I was a kid has no meat in it. I've been told that in the real "olden days" it did. Might have been more like your French Canadian stuff then.

I love mincemeat. A few years ago, I made home canned mincement with venison, which is actually a traditional meat for mincement.

My grandmother was québécois, she would make it on occasion. I suppose it’s a French thing. Also worked at a bakery as a teen. We would make them during Christmas time. It did have some kind of meat in it. It’s ok, but I’m not really a fan.

Boot as the one that one hung in his/her room after splattering somewhere near. I won once...

Apple pie and vanilla ice cream for me.

Take a backpack and gallon ziplock bags into golden corral

Go up to the salad bar and put a hurt on them ham dices, get olives, cheese cubes, sunflower seeds, gummie bears
Bunch of yeast rolls

Eat your fill of everthing else, next day you make a bunch of mini calzone pies

Yeah, it did. Originally came out of medieval England I think. Nowadays it still calls for beef suet even if it has no meat. My beef (pun intended) with it is that I'm not a fan of cloves or allspice.

The only real mincemeat pie, with meat in it, that I have ever eaten was at a B&B outside Bath, England and it was very good though I thought she had put a little too much of those bitter spanish oranges in it. The mincemeat fruit filling that you can buy at the grocery store is one of my favorite pies. I like the Crosse & Blackwell Rum & Brandy Mincemeat Filling the best though. Hot with ice cream is wonderful too!

Well, if you don't like those spice, you certainly won't like mincemeat pie...........with or without some animal flesh in it.

I think mom used the None-Such brand. I may look into Crosse and Blackwell if I can't find a ready made one and have to bake one myself.

I was watching this one episode of Little House on Prairie

They was gonna put this posse together, they all met up. The one dude give everyone the run down on how badass the villains were they was gonna go chase

One guy says “no way, my wife is fixin a kidney pie, I’m outta here”


Anyway

I just remember terrabytes of obscure useless tidbits

Exactly.

I don't even like pumpkin pie if the cook is heavy-handed with the ground cloves.

No doubt that's a result of all that smoking you did before the roofing jobs!

Love it, once a year I get to eat a whole pie. None of my family like it but the wife makes one special for me at Christmas.

You apparently married well.

Like it. In small amounts.

Oh Hell yes. The real deal with currants, meat, etc. Love it! Served warm with vanilla ice cream

My aunt used to make a venison mincemeat pie. Haven't had anything that compares to it.

Generaial turning. Some of us grew up eating mincemeat and fruitcake , some of you grew up eating Twinkies

Grew up eating apple, cherry, blueberry, peach, and pecan pie. Twinkies are above mincemeat on my Nope List.

Mincemeat pie ,my wife makes one for me at this time of year every year. Eating a strawberry ruhbarb pie right now.

Love mincemeat pie. Our family has done a mincemeat recipe with green tomatoes as the the base. They are blanched and seeds removed then used as a filler pulp. Add raisins apples and spices. Wonderful stuff. I’ve done real venison mincemeat and like it but our family recipe is better.

The history on green tomato mincemeat is from depression days when there would be lots of green tomatoes at the end of the season. Venison was scarce and meat a premium. So the recipe came about to have a pie filling that could be easily canned and kept through the winter and a way to use up plentiful green tomatoes at the end of the season.

Mincemeat and rhubarb pies are my two favorites.

So your point is ?

Maybe you are from a different part of the country

I've gotten two black currant plants from a lady at the farmer's market that will go in/near the berry patch next spring. I can' wait for them to start producing.

Perhaps I'll look up a recipe for REAL mincemeat pie then.

Just regular green tomato pie is good. I imagine a mincemeat version would be the bomb!

Are you speaking of "real" mincemeat or store bought mincemeat?? Big difference. Cheers NC

I love it, but it's hard to get any, and the wife balks at it. I make it about every two-three years just for me.

There’s a big difference between real mincemeat pie and most commercial “mince” pie.

Mom puts meat in it. I think it's cooked first, then ground, to be used
in the pie filling. The old people used neck meat. My grandmother
would look at a big old bull and say "Look at all that mincemeat".
She would can it.

The Quebec meat pie I'm familiar with, my wife's grandmother learns to
make when she was in a Quebec convent.

It is different than mincemeat.
It's ok, with a good bit of ketchup.


With mincemeat,
I don't like the spices, and hate cooked raisins.

But it's opinion.
ill pass on it, others don't have to eat sardines, scrapple, puddin meat...

I love it ,eat it right from the canning jar . No need to make a pie .

My father loved fruit cake and mincemeat pie. I'd just as soon fish two week old turds out of a public john and eat them.

The Quebec meat pie or Tortierre is definitely different as you say, than a mincemeat pie. The meat pie has several different ground meats, potatoes on a solid Mirepoix base all in a pie crust. We eat it with ketchup too. It’s pretty bomb

Me too, I just had a piece last night. Pretty similar in taste to sour cream raisin IMO.

I love mincemeat pie with ice cream. I just had onion pie ( kind of like quiche )I like that too.

I like it too, but haven't had any for a lot of years .. My grandmother made it best - but she's long gone now...

I'm a wild and crazy kinda guy...
Many of you probably dont see me that way...😄😄😄

I like fruit cake microwaved for about 20 25 secs and then put crunchy peanut butter on it.

Once a year.
Xmas time.
Just a wally world one but it has ta have a good amount of raisins in it for my spartan likes.
Not a pinky in the air beeotch type..

I can hang with a slice of mince meat pie.
Not my fav....
But would rather fugg up pecan, that is pronounced "pea can" for you heathans who pronounce it the other way😄😄😄
Or a cold pumpkin pie.

My big bon Appetit splurge.

Ate all over this rocks xmas little cultural "what the fugg ever special things" out of decorum and not wanting to offend a host 🤢🤢🤢

Merica,s fruitcakes 👍👍👍👍

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Im going hunting in a huge open hardwood valley surrounded by mature pines in 3 directions with thick under growth in about an hour.
Major over night storm system moving thru and a high pressure cold front coming in real soon.

Might have a red barron pizza tonight with a metric schit ton of extra pepperoni thrown on it!!!
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Most people will tell you that a pie is a rhubarb pie, then when you get it, it has strawberries in it. I always have to be suspicious that their pumpkin pie might have cherries in it or their pecan pie might have gooseberries in it.

Probably 99% of people don't know that mince pie is not mincemeat pie.

I like it. Wife's aunt always has one at holiday meals.

Never had mincemeat pie.
But, "The Warden" points out that I love empanadas - the Mexican version (evidently)
Only difference she mentioned was empanadas are fried instead of baked.

I loved my mom's mincemeat pie. We always killed a hog about 10 days before Christmas and mom would make mincemeat pie filling from the hog's head.

Never had any that I remember.

I have an old recipe from an old guy my grandparents knew when they were young. Made with venison.

It's delicious.

Page's Mincemeat

8 lb Raisins (seedless or seeded)
10 lb Sugar
8 lb Venison or Beef (lean, 1/2" Cubes)
4 lb Suet
1 lb Citron (chopped)
8 qts. Apples (pealed, cored, and chopped)
6 qts. Apple Cider (sweet)
1 qt. Molasses (light)
1 qt. Meat Broth
12 Lemons (juice only)
6 Tbls. Cinnamon
6 Tbls. Mace
6 Tbls. Cloves
Salt to taste
1 Tbls. Brandy - per jar

Preparation

Place above ingredients (except brandy) in large container and mix well. Fill 1 1/2 pint jars. Add brandy and seal. Cook in pressure canner at 5lb pressure for 90 minutes. If you use quart jars - process for 90 minutes, as well. The following is my additional notes on making pies from the filling: When making the pie, put the contents of the 1 1/2 jar into a 9" pie pan lined with an uncooked pie crust. Top with another crust and seal the edge. Cut a vent slit in the top crust about 2" long. Bake in a 375-degree (F) oven for 20 minutes with the edge of pie covered with foil. Remove foil and bake for another 25-30 minutes until crust is golden brown. Note: I've also cooked the whole thing in a big batch (60 minutes if I remember correctly) and frozen in in 1 1/2 pint freezer containers. Keeps for several years in the freezer with no problems.

That'll make a bunch!

Yes, I'm from Arizona.

My point is that just because something came on the market for a later generation that wasn't available to previous generations, not everyone thought it was good or chose to jump on the bandwagon. Twinkies were, are, and will always remain garbage. When a kid has regular access to homemade pies and cookies this is glaringly obvious. So despite generational turnings, maybe it's actually more of a parenting thing.

Hey Steve, thanks for the recipe.
It’s making me hungry for mincemeat pie.
I’ll try your recipe and report back.

Hope you enjoy it!

I agree. A sacrilege.
Don't ruin the strawberries.

A brother in law claims rhubarb juice is good for poison ivy.
Might like it that way.

As to Rennyfitty,
I'd eat mincemeat or rhubarb to avoid offending someone.
But not fambly!😉

Agreed. We moved in 1964 to a house that had a big mature rhubarb patch. Our rhubarb pies had only rhubarb, no other fruit. As a matter of fact, it was in the late 70’s at least before I tasted strawberry/rhubarb pie. Didn’t care for it as much as straight rhubarb