Christmassy Mince Pies
Preparation: 30 minutes Cooking time between 20 and 30 minutes
Category
Pies
Servings
6
Prep Time
30 minutes
Cook Time
20
Be Christmas recipe with our tried and tested mince pie recipe
Author:Pauline
Ingredients
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375 g of Plain Flour
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250g of Butter
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125 g of Whitworths Caster Sugar
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1 Large Free range egg
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2 x 400g of Mince Meat filling
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1 Orange, zest grated and flesh chopped
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1 Apple, finely diced
For the pastry
Mince meat filling
Directions
Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6. To make the pastry, rub the flour, butter, sugar and egg together with a splash of cold water until it just comes together as a dough. Do not over work the dough. Then Wrap the pastry in cling film and set aside to chill in the fridge
Turn the mincemeat out into a bowl, grate the zest of the orange into the mincemeat
Peel and chop the fruit. Throw the orange and apple pieces into the bowl and blend by hand
With a fluted pastry cutter, cut out 6 x 8cm/3¼ in pastry circles for the lids (slightly bigger than the top of the muffin cups). Place a lid on top of each pie and gently push down. Sprinkle with caster sugar
Bake for 20 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool. Dust with icing sugar and serve warm with fresh cream
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