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Almond pastry mince pies


When I first moved to England I was convinced that these were made with actual minced meat! Because of that I haven't tried them for the first couple of years that I've lived here... Thankfully it's only a dried fruit filling :)

RECIPE

Makes around 6-7 mince pies (double the recipe to make more)

for the best results use weighted ingredients

Ingredients

2 jars of mince meat (around 800g)

225 (2 cups ) of flour

a pinch of salt

50g (1/3 cup) ground almonds

85g (3/4 cup) icing sugar

1 medium egg yolk

175g (3/4 cup + 1 tsp) unsalted chilled butter

mince pie tins or a muffin tin, greased with butter

Bake in 180 C (350 F) for 20 minutes

Instructions

To make the pastry:

- sift the flour, salt, almonds and icing sugar into a bowl

- add the butter and incorporate into the dry ingredients with your hands until the whole mixture looks like crumbs

- add the egg yolk and mix untill the dough comes together

- if there are any dru crumbs at the bottom add a sprinkle of cold water

- if the dough is a bit too sticky, add some flour

- wrap the dough in a clingfilm and chill in the fridge for around 30 minutes

- transfer the dough onto a lightly floures surface and roll out to 5mm thick

- cut out circles slightly larger than your tin and place in the individual holes, stretching the doughs on the sides

- make the dough stick out arounf 1mm over the rim of the tin

- fill in to the top with mince meat

- cut out slighly smaller circles, just big enough to cover the tins

-gently press together the edges so the pies are sealed

- from the leftover pastry, cut out decorations of your choice and lay on top of the pies

- don't remove the pastries from their tins straight away - let them cool down so they don't fall apart when you try to remove them

- to get them out of the muffin tin - slightly tilt the tin and with your fingers pull each pastry out

Enjoy xxx

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