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Mince meat pie

posted 16 years ago by marybeth_cameron
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Was anyone else grossed out by this as a little kid? My grandma had this movie and I adored it. But I was seriously freaked out by minced meat pie. I had never heard of it before and it was weird looking! Only fruit was supposed to go into pies.

Is this a more popular dish in the midwest south? I'm an east coast girl.

[–] poetcomic1 9 years ago

It is a very old recipe (going back to the middle ages) in which lean beef is preserved in liquor and sugar indefinitely. It is from a time when meat could not be preserved and frozen the usual ways. The beef gives it the proper texture otherwise it is not mincemeat pie.