Originally Posted by
lynnie
does anyone know what is mincemeat?
Having grown up in Pennsylvania "Dutch" country, mincemeat to me has to contain meat products, usually beef and suet. A mince pie w/o meat is just a glorified raisin pie, IMO. I loved mincemeat pie as a child, and still do, though I indulge only rarely because it doesn't help my cholesterol level! Once I even made it from scratch, using a recipe in the Ball Blue Book. It turned out well, but I find it too scary using a pressure canner. Thankfully, I live near a market that carries authentic mincemeat produced by Groff's Meats in Elizabethtown, PA.