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Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal81
  • fat2g
  • saturates1g
  • carbs14g
  • sugars5g
  • fibre0g
  • protein0g
  • salt0.02g
    low
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Method

  • step 1

    In your food processor, pulse the almonds, peel, apple, ginger, cherries and pineapple together until finely chopped (but not mushy), then tip into a large bowl. In batches, pulse the sultanas, raisins and currants until just chopped a little bit then add to the bowl.

  • step 2

    Sprinkle the suet and sugar, salt and spices over all the chopped fruit and mix well. To mix, squelch through fingers. Pour over the ginger syrup, orange juice and zest and alcohol, then mix again. Spoon the mixture into sterilised jars and keep until needed.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, November 2004

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.3 ratings

Moosmum03

First time making this recipe but definitely won’t be the last. It’s been sitting for a couple of weeks before using so has had time for all the fruit to absorb the brandy so it’s got quite a kick now. Very easy to make and tastes amazing! So much better than shop bought mincemeat. Thanks for the…

damsonrose

I’ve been making this mincemeat for about 4 years and find it very good. I too find I need to chop the pineapple by hand but it only takes a couple of minutes.

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Angela Grey

Melted butter is a delicious alternative to suet. (taken from a Marguerite Patten recipe)

coasterstep

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Have just made this recipe. I just made a quarter of the recipe which filled one jar nicely - I live in France and had not ordered suet from UK so just made do with the little I had. Could have used grated butter instead but was happy with one jar. Only problem was that my processor did not want to…

jaybaker

tip

If you can't get shredded suet, freeze a block of unsalted butter and grate this as a substitute.

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