Be Excellent To Each Other

And, you know, party on. Dude.

All times are UTC [ DST ]




Reply to topic  [ 244 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Author Message
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 22:15 
SupaMod
User avatar
Commander-in-Cheese

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 49232
Schism!

_________________
GoddessJasmine wrote:
Drunk, pulled Craster's pork, waiting for brdyime story,reading nuts. Xz


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 22:24 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
:D

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 22:54 
User avatar
Unpossible!

Joined: 27th Jun, 2008
Posts: 38439
I like marzipan in other things. Can't eat it solo though


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 23:08 
SupaMod
User avatar
Commander-in-Cheese

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 49232
There's a block in the kitchen and I'm having to restrain myself from just going and taking a bite out of it.

_________________
GoddessJasmine wrote:
Drunk, pulled Craster's pork, waiting for brdyime story,reading nuts. Xz


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2021 0:15 
User avatar
chewbacca -future arc welder

Joined: 25th Oct, 2011
Posts: 2655
Location: Kashyyyk
Squirt wrote:
krazywookie wrote:
I like the idea of chunks in the mix, that would dilute it enough for it not to be a hateful experience.

I'm with krazywookie. The best thing to do with marzipan is to encase it in concrete and hurl it into the sea.

POTW for correctness


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2021 13:21 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
Thought I’d give my mince pies with marzipan top a go. I overfilled them (is that even possible? Yes), but they are otherwise perfect. They taste amazing.

Other than the slightly sticky bit on the top 5-8mm of pastry due to overfill, they are perfect.

Should have made the pastry cases 10cm instead of 9cm rounds.

Used the rest of the shortcrust with some grated sharp cheddar and parmesan, black pepper and a sprinkle of cayenne for some savoury biscuits, which are just baking now.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2021 13:22 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
Forgot the pics, like a noob.


You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2021 13:38 
User avatar
Unpossible!

Joined: 27th Jun, 2008
Posts: 38439
They look lush


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Tue Dec 21, 2021 13:40 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
Thank you! They do taste really nice.

I’ve got to make another batch on Christmas Eve or Father Christmas will have to share the reindeer’s carrots.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Wed Dec 22, 2021 15:54 
User avatar
Ticket to Ride World Champion

Joined: 18th Apr, 2008
Posts: 11843
My MiL makes mince pies with a marzipan later underneath the mince. They're great!

_________________
No, it was a giant robot castle!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Wed Dec 22, 2021 16:42 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
Bobbyaro wrote:
My MiL makes mince pies with a marzipan later underneath the mince. They're great!

I did consider something similar. Or grating/finely chopping some into the mincemeat, but I do really love toasted/baked marzipan so it makes a good ‘lid’.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Wed Dec 22, 2021 19:37 
User avatar
Sitting balls-back folder

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 10065
For science you should do all three.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Sun Dec 26, 2021 15:54 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
Mimi wrote:
krazywookie wrote:
I like the idea of chunks in the mix, that would dilute it enough for it not to be a hateful experience.

Marzipan is beautiful, you monster.

If I weren’t eating a whole box of Marzipan fruits on Boxing Day as a kid then Christmas had gone terribly wrong.


You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Sun Dec 26, 2021 16:34 
User avatar
chewbacca -future arc welder

Joined: 25th Oct, 2011
Posts: 2655
Location: Kashyyyk
Do they taste of the appropriate fruits?


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Sun Dec 26, 2021 16:44 
SupaMod
User avatar
Commander-in-Cheese

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 49232
Nope, marzipan! So good!

_________________
GoddessJasmine wrote:
Drunk, pulled Craster's pork, waiting for brdyime story,reading nuts. Xz


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Sun Dec 26, 2021 16:45 
User avatar
chewbacca -future arc welder

Joined: 25th Oct, 2011
Posts: 2655
Location: Kashyyyk
Gah!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Sun Dec 26, 2021 16:53 
SupaMod
User avatar
Commander-in-Cheese

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 49232
So. Good

_________________
GoddessJasmine wrote:
Drunk, pulled Craster's pork, waiting for brdyime story,reading nuts. Xz


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Mon Dec 27, 2021 11:52 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
I wouldn’t ruin marzipan but sullying it with fruit. I like fruit, but marzipan is better.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 16:31 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
I’ve made some mince pies. Different from last year’s marzipan topped ones, these are gingerbread mince pies.

A short and slightly sweet gingerbread pastry with ginger and cinnamon, filled with a mixture of mincemeat and some very finely chopped stem ginger in syrup (with some of the syrup added).

I’m freezing them like this, will take out of the tray once they’re frozen in a day or two, then I’ll pop them in a bag. On Christmas Eve or whatever apparently they’ll cook from frozen just fine.

Oh, and little gingerbread man lids.


You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 16:57 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
Attachment:
798D2D1C-874A-433C-9A7A-BE3C10232CBC.jpeg


I forgot to say that the gingerbread mince pies were excelling, and the stem ginger and ginger syrup just lifted them so beautifully that I adored them.

Today (NYE) we have a tradition of having a big Indian food meal, so I’m making pudla, dahl, pilaf, etc, and I had some filo left over from the other day so I have made samosas…

Attachment:
C147CAB4-2E4B-4968-98C8-FBFBE13DA2D7.jpeg


Mince pie samosas! I had the idea whilst I was struggling to sleep last night. I had some leftover fruit mincemeat so instead of a savoury filling made these mince pie ones. I do have some savoury ones as well to have with tea tonight, but these were sun and a super quick way to make a few mince pies if you’re in a hurry, and you definitely get a good filling to pastry ratio this way, and they’re a bit of a novelty. Sorry for the rubbish photo. We are barely making daylight here at the moment.


You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 17:04 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
Oh! And I made Russell a mince pie toastie a couple of weeks back. That’s great for using up any leftover mincemeat. Just make sure it’s not lava-hot as you tuck in.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 17:42 
User avatar

Joined: 12th Apr, 2008
Posts: 17757
Location: Oxford
Super ideas Mimi! They look really tasty.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2022 18:50 
Awesome
User avatar
Yes

Joined: 6th Apr, 2008
Posts: 12240
Mince pie toastie!


You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

_________________
Always proof read carefully in case you any words out


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:28 
User avatar
Prince of Fops

Joined: 14th May, 2009
Posts: 4296
Mr Russell wrote:
Mince pie toastie!


End of Q1 enquiry -- how was this? It's an intriguing idea, one I can imagine Mini Fop the elder being well into. What kind of bread did you use?


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:42 
Awesome
User avatar
Yes

Joined: 6th Apr, 2008
Posts: 12240
Findus Fop wrote:
Mr Russell wrote:
Mince pie toastie!


End of Q1 enquiry -- how was this? It's an intriguing idea, one I can imagine Mini Fop the elder being well into. What kind of bread did you use?

Super delicious! Would eat every day. Just used regular Warburton's brown bread.

_________________
Always proof read carefully in case you any words out


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:05 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
Indeed. Regular bread and a toastie maker that Ashens recommended at one point in time.

A couple of weeks ago I made a mincemeat Bread & Butter pudding, where I used clementine and brandy mincemeat in the fruit layers as well as the other fruit. It was absolutely lovely, and Russell’s dad and Darwin polished off second helpings until there was none left.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 15:11 
User avatar
Prince of Fops

Joined: 14th May, 2009
Posts: 4296
Nice, to the toastie maker I go. At some point over the weekend. Will report back!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Tue Oct 24, 2023 13:17 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
Made my first mince pies ahead of the Christmas season this year as I made a huge batch of 5 large jars of mincemeat a few weeks ago and I was feeling a bit nervous about it to be honest, so I wanted to make a test batch of pies.

They’re just hand pies, so not shapes or baked in a pie tin of any sort, but man alive they came out well. The mincemeat is good. I put in twice the amount of alcohol as the recipe called for, and I think I might add even more before I spoon it into the pies next time (it’ll be fine, nobody will be driving…)

The pastry was just 190g of flour and 130g butter pulsed in a food processor until fine breadcrumbs, then add one egg and 65g caster sugar, pulsed again until it’s a dough. Chill for 15 minutes, then make pies, brush with milk, sprinkle with brown sugar. 200° fan for 18 minutes.

I’m writing this here so I can write it down properly later.


You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Sun Oct 29, 2023 10:59 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
Am I right to be irritated by the mince pie illustrations for the first and fourth of these stats?


You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Sun Oct 29, 2023 15:37 
User avatar
Ticket to Ride World Champion

Joined: 18th Apr, 2008
Posts: 11843
Do they not understand the number 14??

_________________
No, it was a giant robot castle!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Sun Oct 29, 2023 15:43 
User avatar
Isn't that lovely?

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 10910
Location: Devon
14 sounds like 40, and that could be about 40% of a pie, could it have been a misheard instruction?

But yes, that is terrible.

_________________
Where's the Kaboom? I was expecting an Earth shattering Kaboom!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2023 14:00 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
My mother just sent me a link to these:


You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2023 13:46 
User avatar
Ticket to Ride World Champion

Joined: 18th Apr, 2008
Posts: 11843
I'm beginning to think you're trying to make me angry now!! :D

_________________
No, it was a giant robot castle!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 13:55 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
Bobbyaro wrote:
I'm beginning to think you're trying to make me angry now!! :D


I bought some today :)

Will report back.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 18:27 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
Ma had some and said they were lovely.

She was wrong though, because they are horrible.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 18:30 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
I found an alternative to mince pies in Sainsbury’s today.

HAVE AN ECCLEFECHAN


You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 18:32 
User avatar
Sitting balls-back folder

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 10065
It took me ages to find out that's pronounced eckle-feck-uhn not eh-clef-e-shan - I assumed it was a french invention!

We had to stop buying them, because they are impossible to stop eating.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 18:38 
User avatar
Ticket to Ride World Champion

Joined: 18th Apr, 2008
Posts: 11843
Mimi wrote:
Ma had some and said they were lovely.

She was wrong though, because they are horrible.

Well, that/is/ a surprise!!

_________________
No, it was a giant robot castle!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 18:41 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
Bobbyaro wrote:
Mimi wrote:
Ma had some and said they were lovely.

She was wrong though, because they are horrible.

Well, that/is/ a surprise!!


:DD

I trusted her judgement. To be fair all of the reviews I’ve seen say they are really nice, but to me they taste like someone has a bag of chicken crisps and filled it with icing sugar.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2023 18:44 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
BikNorton wrote:
It took me ages to find out that's pronounced eckle-feck-uhn not eh-clef-e-shan - I assumed it was a french invention!

We had to stop buying them, because they are impossible to stop eating.


We read it as ‘ekklefekken’, I think because I assumed it had something to do with Eccles/ eccles cakes, being full of currants, but no :D

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2023 13:44 
SupaMod
User avatar
Commander-in-Cheese

Joined: 30th Mar, 2008
Posts: 49232
When I was in Scotland years back I visited a cafe at a country estate. Because I was feeling frivolous, I had a slice of ecclefechan with a shot of Auchentoshan.

_________________
GoddessJasmine wrote:
Drunk, pulled Craster's pork, waiting for brdyime story,reading nuts. Xz


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2023 13:59 
User avatar
Hibernating Druid

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 49104
Location: Standing on your mother's Porsche
Bless you

_________________
SD&DG Illustrated! Behance Bleep Bloop

'Not without talent but dragged down by bass turgidity'


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2023 16:21 
User avatar

Joined: 27th Mar, 2008
Posts: 25549
Cras wrote:
When I was in Scotland years back I visited a cafe at a country estate. Because I was feeling frivolous, I had a slice of ecclefechan with a shot of Auchentoshan.


Auchentoshan Sounds like a German car manufacturer.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Mince pie review season
PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2023 19:09 
User avatar
Decapodian

Joined: 15th Oct, 2010
Posts: 5134
Greggs mince pie with Bayleys extra thick cream is delicious.


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Reply to topic  [ 244 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5

All times are UTC [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Squirt and 0 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search within this thread:
You are using the 'Ted' forum. Bill doesn't really exist any more. Bogus!
Want to help out with the hosting / advertising costs? That's very nice of you.
Are you on a mobile phone? Try http://beex.co.uk/m/
RIP, Owen. RIP, MrC.

Powered by a very Grim... version of phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group.