Mincemeat is a mixture of chopped dried fruit, distilled spirits and spices, and sometimes beef suet, beef, or venison. Originally, mincemeat always contained meat. I copied this from The Virginia Housewife by Mary Randolph many, many years ago. It is supposedly the recipe used by Martha Washington. The original recipe called for. Fill your mince pies with this and easy to make, delicious, homemade Christmas mincemeat. No celebration is complete without it.

Christmas Mincemeat Recipe. Christmas in Britain simply cannot be without mince pies, absolutely no way.

· If you didn't grow up with mincemeat, chances are you're totally confused about what this food actually is. From the sound of it, one would assume that m. Delia's Home-made Christmas Mincemeat recipe. You can buy some very good mincemeat, but when it is home-made it really is in another league, and once you make it.

The small, sweet pies are filled with delicious homemade mincemeat are as traditional as the day itself. Note - Christmas mincemeat is not, as the name suggests, meat though once it was.  Look through the Christmas mincemeat recipe you will see it is sugar, fruits both fresh and dried, Brandy and suet blended. Turkey Broth. Mincemeat is remarkably easy to make plus home- made mincemeat is such a treat and so much better than shop- bought jars so really is worth doing.

It may look fiddly with so many ingredients, but it is not. Quite the opposite. Make your mincemeat ahead of time to give it time to mature but don't worry if you are last- minute, it still tastes good. How can all those delicious ingredients not be?