Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1912 — AS MINCEMEAT SHOULD BE [ARTICLE]

AS MINCEMEAT SHOULD BE

Mrs. Taft (Furnishes Recipe for This Most Popular Filling for the Pie. Three pounds of lean beef, one pound* of suet, two pounds of seeded raisins, two pounds of citron, two pounds of currants, two teaspoonfuls of cinnafmon, two quarts of cider, om j pound of brown sugar, one tablespoo* ful of salt. Chop the beef until very tender. When cold chop very fine. Chop the suet as fine as possible, re-, moving all the stringy parts. Place* the beef and suet In an old-fashioned' crock. Add the chopped fruit and spied. The cider containing the sugar should have been, boiled down to onehalf its original quantity. When cool mix the liquors. Pour this over the mixture, Place in a stone jar and keep tightly covered in a cold place. Wlien ready to make the pies peel and chop two sour apples and stir them Into the mincemeat. Heat the mincemeat In the oven before the pie Is made. —From the Housekeeper.