Last week I was standing in front of the bakery case trying to decide which pies to buy. Yes, I'm that good of a cook, although I still think that aprons are cute. Well, the pie packages said they are homemade, no one will ever know. Decisions, decisions. Then I noticed there was a mincemeat pie. I was intrigued, should I try it? I decided that I couldn't risk getting an icky pie.
So, I started asking people what exactly is mincemeat? One person said it was dried fruit. One person had homemade mincemeat & said it was actually meat. Both agreed that mincemeat is gross & should not be consumed by humans. So I just looked it up at wikipedia. Apparently in the 15th century meat & fruit were mixed together to mask the flavors of meat that had started to turn bad. Today mincemeat is a combination of spices, distilled spirits & dried fruits. with some beef or vegetable suet. So is mincemeat gross or edible? I'm still not brave enough to risk buying an icky pie.
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Yes i study home economics mincemeat it a misture of fruit and dried fruit misex with spices and wiskey or rum. and put into pies for Chirstmas.
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