Ingredients
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1/4 cup melted butter
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1/3 cup brown sugar
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100 g raisins
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50 g sultanas
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50 g black currants
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1 granny smith apple, peeled, cored and grated
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1/3 cup chopped glace cherries
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1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
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1/2 teaspoon mixed spice
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1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
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25 -50 ml brandy
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500 ml cake flour, loosely measured
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50 ml cornflour
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175 g butter
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50 ml icing sugar
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50 g candied peel
Instructions
- QUICK FRUIT MINCEMEAT:
- Combine all ingredients and set aside for flavours to infuse.
- PASTRY:
- Sift flour, cornflour, and icing sugar.
- Rub in the butter.
- Beat egg and vanilla together then add, mixing well.
- Knead into a ball without overhandling the pastry.
- Roll out thinly on a floured board and cut into 3" rounds.
- Reroll offcuts until all the pastry is used.
- Place rounds in a patty pan, place a heaped teaspoon of filling in the middle of each pastry round and cover with second pastry round.
- Press edges together with the prongs of a fork and prick each top twice.
- Bake at 350F for 18-20 minutes or until pale gold.
- Leave to cool slightly before removing to cooking rack.
- Dust lightly with icing sugar.
- COOKS NOTE - If you don't have a patty pan, place the pies on a cookie sheet rather than in a muffin tray, which is too deep.