Browse our products

Free delivery on all UK orders over £20

Shop in confidence

Mince Pies

Ingredients

How to make mince pies

  1. To make the pastry, sift the plain flour and sea salt into a mixing bowl.  Rub the fats into the plain flour until it starts to resemble fine breadcrumbs.  Add just a smidgeon of cold water in small amounts until the dough just leaves the mixing bowl clean.  Leave the pastry to rest in a poly bag in refrigerator for half an hour (30 minutes).
  2. After it’s settling time, put the oven on to 200oC/400oF.  Cover a board with a small amount of flour and roll out half of the pastry as thin as possible and cut into 7½ cm (3 inch) circles; afterwards, roll out the other half a thin as possible and make smaller rounds of 6cm (2½ inch) in diameter.
  3. Lightly butter or oil a tray of 6cm (2½ inch) moulds.  Line the moulds with the larger rounds and then fill these with mincemeat to the level of the edges of the pastry.   With a little bit of cold water, gently dampen the edges of the pastry and cover them with the smaller pastry rounds and press them together with your fingers to seal the pies shut.  Brush the tops lightly with the milk and cut 2 or 3 holes into the tops with the end of a sharp knife.
  4. Bake in the oven for 25 – 30 minutes until lightly brown.  Cool slightly in a tray and sprinkle with icing sugar.

Print

To print this recipe in printer friendly format click the button below

Comments

Bookmark this



Shop for the ingredients

Recipes menu


Your basket

Latest from the blog

Dosas – Southern Indian Pancakes
25 April 2012, 12:59 pmMy parents have recently come back from a wedding in Southern India and they have been to one of my…... Read more
Pretty Little Rich Cake
17 April 2012, 1:20 pmIt was Sophie's birthday the other day.  We went out en famille for a Chinese meal at Sweet Basil in…... Read more
Life So Material
11 April 2012, 3:21 pm“For too long we seem to have surrendered personal excellence and community value in the mere accumulation of material things. …... Read more
Decoration