It's the 11th of November and I'm already eating a mince pie

[billyskank]

:eyes:

Nice, though. :9

[Shell Beau]

1. What exactly is in mince pie?

:shrug:

[billyskank]

3. Why, mincemeat of course

But that's the kind of mincemeat that's made of raisins, shredded carrot and other fruit & veg. There's actually no meat in there at all. :)

You don't have mince pies at Christmas?

[Shell Beau]

6. No, we don't. And it sounds kind of yucky to me, but

I'd be willing to give it a try!! :)

[billyskank]

9. It's probably impossible to describe

:)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Ooohhh, yummy!

I LOVE mince pies.....It's never the wrong time of year for one!

How are you today, my dear billy?

Good to see you!


:loveya: :hug:

[billyskank]

4. Hi Peggy

I'm ok, thanks sweetie! :hug:

[hippywife]

5. One of my favorites!

Hope you enjoy it, Billy! :)

[LaurenG]

7. My mother made one and TRIED to make us eat it. It was meat

and raisins and it was called mince meat pie. I didn't touch it. I guess it was something the ancestors made in the 1800's and people liked it. I'd rather have a mince with fruit. It sounds better.

[billyskank]

8. This mince pie didn't have meat in it

They never do. It's called mincemeat but there is no actual meat there. That would be revolting, I reckon.

[LaurenG]

10. It even smelled bad, here is some information on the kind I had

Heavily seasoned pies of minced meat, suet, and dried fruits were popular in Elizabethan England, particularly at Christmas time. The English settlers brought a liking for mince meat with them to America. Pilgrims and Puritans did not celebrate Christmas, however, and mince pies soon became associated with the new New England holiday - Thanksgiving.

Lean beef, either sirloin or ox-tongue, was generally preferred as the minced meat. It was discovered that, if brandy was added and if the minced meat was not added until just before cooking, the mix of suet, fruits and spices would keep for months. Later mince pies sometimes omitted the meat altogether.
"Mince-meat was chopped, and seasoned, and tasted, and chopped, and seasoned, and tasted, till all the various blissful flavors were merged in the one, perfect, resultant, crowning flavor which pronounced the work complete. No little hard bits of apple, cold and crisp, no sudden surprises in the way of morsels undoubtedly from the animal kingdom, but a perfect chaos, without organization and subject to no laws of classification. What are mince pies for? What enemy of mankind first prompted their composition?… Mrs. Murray gave herself no trouble on this score. She held to mince-pies, as to baked beans on Saturday, as a fixed institution, not to be subverted." Pie23.JPG (73164 bytes)

"Thanksgiving" by S.G.B.
in Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1863.

http://www.pilgrimhall.org/ThanksPieMince.htm

edited for clarity

[billyskank]

11. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make

:shrug:

[Shell Beau]

12. Really!! It has to be better than fruit cake!!

And it's not like you are eating an ox-tongue pie!! ;)

[LaurenG]

13. Actually I had no point

It was just informational. "It was a my mom made a yucky pie. See how we suffered and people used to like this"... Sorry if I was unclear in my pointlessness.:hi: