Recipe: Tasty Aunt Audrey's Mince Pie

Aunt Audrey's Mince Pie. Add flour, lard and butter into blender and blend.. "Mincemeat is a wonderful pie filling with cooked ground beef, chopped apples and raisins, plus spices and juices for flavor. Being so far from home, she whipped up the classic recipe and the dream was born. Now Aunty Devi's Meat Pies are the leading supplier of New Zealand meat pies in America.

It was ready by the time it was needed. Fortunately our turkey was the same size as Aunt Susanna's, and Laura had cooked a double supply of turnips, intending to warm them up the next day. I've known about Aunty Devi's pie factory in Escondido for a long time, but it's never open when I'm available. You can cook Aunt Audrey's Mince Pie using 4 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Aunt Audrey's Mince Pie

1. Prepare 172 g of shifted self-raising flour.
2. Prepare 42 g of lard.
3. You need 42 g of unsalted butter.
4. Prepare 2 tbs of cold water.

When I was at the Poway Farmers Market this past Saturday they had a pop-up stand selling both hot and frozen pies. My aunt loved her life, inspiring both students in the classroom and pie lovers at the inn, year after year. Unfortunately, time does not stand still, for the inn and my sweet aunt are long gone. Thankfully, Aunt Ella's cherished pie recipe was passed down to me for us all to enjoy.

Aunt Audrey's Mince Pie step by step

1. Add flour, lard and butter into blender and blend. At this stage please don't blend too much.
2. Add water a little by little then blend well..
3. Keep the dough in the refrigerator for 20 mins..
4. Warm the oven at gas mark 5..
5. Roll out the dough in 3 mm then cut the dough and put homemade mints meat..
6. Place mints pie at middle of oven then cook for 25 mins..

In the days when tobacco and textiles ruled the South, mincemeat pie was the crown jewel of holiday celebrations. The boozy, heavily spiced, fruit-and-meat fillings were a balanced sorcery of sugar and alcohol originally devised as a way to preserve meat without smoking or salting. Meatless "mince" pies were equally popular. Over the years this has evolved from just fruit puddings and fruit mince tarts to more contemporary flavours. Mince meat pie was given many names including "shred pie," "mutton pie," and "Christmas pye," and was particularly loved in England.