Mincemeat Streusel
This festive recipe brings together a delightful mix of dried fruits, warm spices, and a generous splash of brandy. The sweet and buttery pastry encases a luscious mincemeat filling, topped with a crumbly and golden crust. Perfect for sharing and savoring during the holiday season, this mincemeat slice is best enjoyed warm with a dollop of cream or brandy butter.
— Constant Cookbook
Ingredients
- 100g/3½oz currants
- 100g/3½oz raisins
- 100g/3½oz sultanas
- 100g/3½oz dried cranberries
- 100g/3½oz dried apricots
- 50g/1¾oz mixed peel
- 1 large cooking apple
- 75g/2¾oz butter
- 25g/1oz whole blanched almonds
- 125g/4oz light muscovado sugar
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground mixed spice
- 1 lemon, finely grated zest
- 100ml/3½fl oz brandyrumsherry
- 175g/6oz plain white flour
- 1½ tbsp icing sugar
- 100g/3½oz butter
- 75g/3oz butter
- 75g/3oz self-raising white flour
- 40g/1½oz semolina
- 40g/1½oz caster sugar
- fresh creambrandy butter
Instructions
- For the mincemeat, place the currants, raisins, sultanas, cranberries, apricots, mixed peel, apple, butter, almonds, sugar, cinnamon, mixed spice, lemon zest and juice into a large pan and cook over a low heat, stirring occasionally for about 10 minutes. Remove from the heat, leave to cool, then stir in the brandy, rum or sherry.
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6 (fan 180C) and grease a 23x33cm/9x13in Swiss roll tin or equivalent.
- For the pastry, sift the flour and icing sugar into a mixing bowl and rub in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs.
- Add just sufficient cold water to mix to a firm dough - if you prefer this can be made in a processor. If time allows, wrap the dough in cling film and chill for about 30 minutes.
- On a lightly floured work surface, roll out the pastry to a rectangle slightly larger than the prepared tin, then line the base and sides of the tin with pastry.
- Trim the pastry level with the top edges of the tin and patch any gaps if necessary.
- Spread the mincemeat evenly over the pastry base.
- To make the topping, melt the butter and allow this to cool slightly.
- Put the remaining ingredients into a bowl and pour the melted butter over. Mix together until the ingredients combine to form a dough. If time allows, chill this mixture - this makes grating easier.
- Using a coarse grater, grate the topping over the mincemeat and spread evenly.
- Bake in the preheated oven for about 20-25 minutes, or until golden-brown.
- Cut into 16 slices, dust with icing sugar and serve warm with cream or brandy butter.
Cook Time
1H
Prep Time
PT1H
Yield
Serves 16
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