I'm fed up with celebrations....!!!

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by GuinnessStout

Mice meat pies and fruit cakes should be banned... If I ever become President that will be one of the first laws I put into effect!!!

OH, I love mince pies and fruitcakes - but only those I've doctored. Most of the fruitcakes are not to my liking until I'm through sweetening and moisturizing them with my special additives. Now mince pies, I love just like they are, especially the ones with the real meat. So very old country feel to eating a slice of either of those while watching A Christmas Carol or one of the old B&W classics. But when I'm president or queen, I won't make everybody eat them or take them away from all - just be sure I have my share!

[Mistymillar]

Originally Posted by GuinnessStout

Mice meat pies and fruit cakes should be banned... If I ever become President that will be one of the first laws I put into effect!!!

I have never had one and shall as much as possible refrain from eating mice pies.

[Micah my love]

I can eat a slice of fruit cake but no mince meat for me

[Verbena]

panettone now that is a yummy Christmas treat

[gemy]

I love a bit of mince meat tarts and fruit cake for sure.

[yorkietalkjilly]

My Daddy always loved a big piece of mince pie and a cup of coffee at Christmas. I guess I got my love of mince from him. Fruitcake - my older sister taught me to love that. She would always serve the special fruitcake chilled, sliced razor thin and with the thickest, coldest egg nog. She always served the Cookbook Bakeries Ye Olde English Fruit Cake and it was so rich and yummy and not so full of nuts as so many are today. It had more of the candied fruits than anything, only a few nuts and was terribly moist. The actual cake part was really good, too. I was so sad when that company went out of business and stopped making that fruitcake. But then the Collin Street Bakery in Waco, Texas kind of stepped in and took over all the fruitcake market down here. We usually drive down to Waco and buy ours each year. Never been in their bakery that it wasn't full of customers!

[Carmeow]

Mince meat is MICE meat...? Oh my gosh, that seems kinda disturbing for some reason!

[GuinnessStout]

Hmm safe to say nobody on here is voting for me to be president then lol

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by Carmeow

Mince meat is MICE meat...? Oh my gosh, that seems kinda disturbing for some reason!

Mice meat in the mince? I'd always heard that mincemeat pies were initially made up of mutton, suet, fruits and lots of spices and later other meats were used. I've used pulled beef to make it back when I cooked a lot. It's really delicious made with meat, and reminds me some of sweet and sour pork, curried, or something. Definite old world taste to me in the traditional old mincemeat pies with those delicious, rich crusts. Today's mincemeat pies are nothing like those made when I was young and neither are most of the fruitcakes! Still, if you are a careful and discriminating shopper, you can find excellent bakeries for the old-fashioned versions.

What surprised me was to find that a lot of British wedding cakes were and still are fruitcake, even William and Kate's just recently.

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by GuinnessStout

Hmm safe to say nobody on here is voting for me to be president then lol

Well, just drop that one item about banning mincemeat and fruitcake from your party platform and I'll vote for you! Okay, you can ban it all year but just permit me some at holiday time - that's really the only time I indulge in either. I cannot eat them any other time of the year - it wouldn't be right. It would be like eating hot dogs, potato chips and apple pie for Christmas dinner to have mincemeat pie or fruitcake except in November, December! Or eggnog - I reserve it only for those two month, too.

[GuinnessStout]

Oh well if I was there you could not have Apple pie... I would eat the whole thing well except for the crust

[GuinnessStout]

Umm what is a PODDLE of apples????
2 lbs raisins
3 lbs currants
1½ lbs lean beef
3 lbs beef suet
2 lbs moist sugar
2 oz citron
2 oz candied lemon peel
2 oz candied orange peel
1 small nutmeg
1 pottle of apples
the rind of two lemons, the juice of one
1/2 pint brandy
Stone and cut the raisins once or twice across, but do not chop them; wash, dry and pick the currants free from stalks and grit, and mince the beef and suet, taking care the latter is chopped very fine; slice the citron and candied peel, grate the nutmeg, and pare, core and mince the apples; mince the lemon peel, strain the juice and when all the ingredients are thus prepared, mix them well together, adding the brandy when the other things are well blended; press the whole into a jar, carefully exclude the air, and the mincemeat will be ready for use in a fortnight.

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by GuinnessStout

Oh well if I was there you could not have Apple pie... I would eat the whole thing well except for the crust

You can have that applie pie at Christmas! I can only eat my seasonal pies and desserts at Christmas and I guess that's what makes them so special - they are eaten only then.

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by GuinnessStout

Umm what is a PODDLE of apples????
2 lbs raisins
3 lbs currants
1½ lbs lean beef
3 lbs beef suet
2 lbs moist sugar
2 oz citron
2 oz candied lemon peel
2 oz candied orange peel
1 small nutmeg
1 pottle of apples
the rind of two lemons, the juice of one
1/2 pint brandy
Stone and cut the raisins once or twice across, but do not chop them; wash, dry and pick the currants free from stalks and grit, and mince the beef and suet, taking care the latter is chopped very fine; slice the citron and candied peel, grate the nutmeg, and pare, core and mince the apples; mince the lemon peel, strain the juice and when all the ingredients are thus prepared, mix them well together, adding the brandy when the other things are well blended; press the whole into a jar, carefully exclude the air, and the mincemeat will be ready for use in a fortnight.

Ohmygoodness - get me a genuine hardy, ruddy-cheeked English cook with a plump figure like the one in Downton Abbey to mix all of that up into a huge mincemeat pie and I'll brew the coffee and pour the port! That does sound like a lucious recipe. I'm saving that recipe for next Christmas!!!

[celstu1]

My mom used to make fruitcake when I was a kid. When I got old enough and brave enough to say I hated it (my brothers did too) she said she did too and stopped making it, thank goodness! I haven't had it in like 25 years! (maybe longer!) and Mincemeat, well Ive NEVER had that, and probably would NEVER eat that. My MIL brings it over every Thanksgiving, not homemade, store bought and its nasty looking, smelling and no one eats it but her.

I am sick of Chinese food! I need to get through tonight, one more night of Chinese food! My little brother has been staying with us for 2.5 weeks and Chinese is his favorite. I eat it maybe 3x a year.... but he eats it 3x a week easily. We've had a lot of it over the last 2 weeks since he's going to be deploying to New Delhi for 3 years he wanted to 'stock up' on it! If I didn't see it again until next New Years, I'd be ok with that! LOL