Mince Pie
- 120 grams Cake flour
- 60 grams Butter (diced and cooled)
- 1 beat the egg, and use 1/2-2/3 of the egg Egg
- 1 dash Salt
- 300 grams in total For the filling:
- 80 grams Apple (remove the core)
- 60 grams Currants
- 60 grams Raisins
- 40 grams Sultana raisins
- 10 grams Orange peels
- 1 Lemon (organic, not treated with fungicides)
- 25 grams Almond flour
- 1 tbsp Brandy
- 1 Cinnamon powder
- 1 Clove powder
- 1 All spice
- 1 Powdered sugar
- For the shortcrust pastry: Measure out the cake flour (and the salt) in a bowl, add the diced butter, and with your chilled fingertips, coat the butter with the flour and break it up into fine pieces.
- Work quickly to prevent the butter from warming up by the warmth of your fingertips.
- Work until it's crumbly.
- Once it's mixed, gradually pour in the beaten egg, being careful not to add to much at once, and stir with a chopstick.
- Once the mixture from Step 2 comes together, bring the dough together with your hands, divide into half, wrap with plastic wrap, and let it rest in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.
- For the filling: Finely chop the apple, raisins, sultana raisins, and orange peels, and leave the currants as-is.
- Put all of the ingredients from Step 4 in a bowl, add the almond flour, brandy, spices, the zest of the lemon, and juice from 1/2 a lemon, and taste.
- Add more lemon juice if needed.
- Take half of the dough out of the refrigerator, dust the surface, and with a rolling pin, roll it out until about 2 mm thick.
- Cut out 7 cm and 6 cm diameter circles.
- Bring the remaining dough together, and again, roll out and cut out.
- You should be able to make 8 circles of each size with half of the dough.
- Line the tart pan with the larger circle dough, put 1 spoonful of the filling, and cover with the smaller circle of dough.
- Brush the edges of the dough with the leftover beaten egg, and tightly seal the edges.
- Repeat Step 6 through 8.
- If you have leftover dough, form the dough into a gyoza dumpling shape.
- Bake in the oven at 200C for 20 minutes until the surface is golden brown, and let it cool.
- Dust with powdered sugar through a tea strainer, and it's done.
flour, butter, egg, salt, apple, currants, raisins, raisins, peels, lemon, flour, brandy, cinnamon powder, clove powder, spice, sugar
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/167608-mince-pie (may not work)