Ingredients for Fruit Mince Pie:
1. Nutmeg – 1 small piece
Cinnamon – 1 small piece
Cardamom – 2
Cloves – 2
2. Apple – 3, chopped into tiny pieces
Black currants/raisins – 1 cup
Cranberry – ¼ cup
Brown sugar – ¼ cup
Fresh orange juice – 1.25 cups
Orange skin fried – 2 big spoons
Cinnamon – 2 pieces
Wine – ¼ cup
For tart base:
2. Salted butter – 100 gm
Maida – 175 gm
4. Cold water – 2.5 big spoons
How to prepare Fruit Mince Pie?
1. To prepare fruit mince, first make a powder of ingredients no: 1.
2. Cook ingredients no: 2 in a pan.
3. When ingredients are cooked and the juice thickens, add the masala powder.
4. Mix the contents well and take from the flame. This is fruit mince.
5. Pre-heat oven in 180 degree celsious.
6. To prepare tart base, add butter to the maida first.
7. Using fingers, mix the ingredients together till they resemble bread crumbs.
8. Add cold water and softly knead the dough.
9. Place the dough between two butter papers and spread.
10. Place the same butter paper in the tart tray and allow the spread dough to set.
11. Bake it in a pre-heated oven for 5 minutes.
12. Fill the fruit mince in this tart first.
13. Make star shapes from dough of tart dough and decorate the pie.
14. Place it back in the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes.
Note: You can also prepare fruit mince and store it in the refrigerator for a few months. Prepare an instant pie using this fruit mince.
Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine, December 15 – 31, 2019
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