The ingredients for mincemeat pie include round steak and sour cherries.
Ingredients
- ¼ pounds round steak: 1 piece (cut into small pieces)
- apple cider: 1 cup
- Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored and: 4 piece (diced)
- ½ cups dried currants: 2 piece
- ½ cups raisins: 2 piece
- sour cherry preserves: 1 jar (16 ounce jar)
- ⅓ cups white sugar: 1 piece
- candied mixed fruit peel: 0.5 pound (chopped)
- butter: 0.5 cup
- ground ginger: 1 tsp
- ground cloves: 0.5 tsp
- ground nutmeg: 0.5 tsp
- ground cinnamon: 0.5 tsp
- salt: 0.5 tsp
- pitted sour cherries: 1 can (16 ounce can, drained)
- double-crust pie pastry: 1 pack (14.1 ounce pack, thawed)
- heavy cream: 2 Tbsp
- white sugar, for sprinkling: 1 tsp
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Stages of cooking
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Combine steak and cider in a Dutch oven. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer. Cover and cook until steak is tender, about 20 minutes. Remove steak to a cutting board; coarsely chop, then return to the pot.
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Stir in apples, currants, raisins, cherry preserves, 1 1/3 cups sugar, mixed fruit peel, and butter. Add ginger, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, and salt. Simmer, uncovered, over low heat until mixture is very thick, about 1 hour 30 minutes. Stir in cherries and remove from heat.
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Transfer filling to a container and allow to cool at room temperature. Cover tightly and refrigerate for at least 1 week before using.
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
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Line a 9-inch pie dish with 1 pastry crust. Spoon filling into crust and cover with second pastry crust. Crimp edges and cut several slits into top pastry. Brush with cream and sprinkle with 1 teaspoon sugar.
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Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 45 minutes.
