Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, last-minute christmas mincemeat. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Grate the marzipan and the apple. Put in a pan together with the dried fruit, nuts and butter. Add the sugar and spices and grate in the lemon zest, then squeeze the lemon and add the juice to the pan. Cover and heat gently, stirring as the butter and marzipan melt so everything mixes together.

Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have last-minute christmas mincemeat using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat:

1. Take 400 g dried fruit, I used raisins and sultanas only but you could also add dried cranberries, cherries, mixed peel etc
2. Make ready 1 eating apple, peeled
3. Make ready 100 g marzipan, grated
4. Take 50 g butter
5. Prepare 50 g chopped almonds or cashew nuts
6. Take 75 g soft muscovado sugar
7. Take 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
8. Get 1 tsp mixed spice
9. Get finely grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
10. Make ready 200 ml brandy, rum or whiskey

Grate the marzipan and the apple. Put in a pan together with the dried fruit, nuts and butter. Add the sugar and spices and grate in the lemon zest, then squeeze the lemon and add the juice to the pan. Cover and heat gently, stirring as the butter and marzipan melt so everything mixes together.

Steps to make Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat:

1. Mix the dried fruit together. Weigh the nuts and break them up gently with the end of a rolling pin or chop roughly with a knife.
2. Grate the marzipan and the apple. Put in a pan together with the dried fruit, nuts and butter.
3. Add the sugar and spices and grate in the lemon zest, then squeeze the lemon and add the juice to the pan. Cover and heat gently, stirring as the butter and marzipan melt so everything mixes together.
4. Simmer gently for about 10 minutes, then leave to cool. When completely cool add and stir in the rum, whiskey or brandy.
5. I left it to stand for a while longer as it looked too liquid, and in about an hour or two the rum had been absorbed into the fruit. I then transferred it to jars (two of them) left them to stand overnight, then used the mincemeat to make mince pies the next day, see separate recipe.

Add the sugar and spices and grate in the lemon zest, then squeeze the lemon and add the juice to the pan. Cover and heat gently, stirring as the butter and marzipan melt so everything mixes together. Even though Christmas is nearly upon us, it's still not too late to make your own mincemeat. If you've never made this before it is one of the simplest things to make, but also very gratifying. There is very little work involved.

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