English cake Minsmith Pie

Minsmith pie (English mincemeat pie) – this is traditional in English countries sweet Christmas cake stuffed with shredded apples and dried fruits mixed with sugar, honey, aromatic spices, fat and infused with alcohol. It is better to take apples acidic, so that they balance the sweetness of the filling. Usually such cakes are baked from shortcrust pastry and make them half-closed, covering the filling instead of the whole cake cut out of it figurines. Minsmith Pie gives its holiday mood original appearance and delicious filling that warms its sweet and spicy flavor with citrus notes. друзьями: Time: Сложность: среднеQuantity: 1 pie (23 cm.) Recipes use measuring containers volume: 1 cup (st.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cups (st.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (Art.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1 teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml.

Ingredients for the recipe:

Dough

• 2.5 tbsp. flour
• 1 tbsp. l Sahara
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 tbsp. l vegetable oil
• 1 tbsp. (230 gr.) Chilled butter, chopped slices (optionally frozen butter)
• 1/4 Art. cold water
• 2 tsp white vinegar or lemon juice

Filling

• 2 medium apples, peeled and grated on a coarse grater
• 1 tbsp. Thompson’s raisins or raisins
• 1 tbsp. dark raisins
• 0.5 tbsp. dried cranberries
• 1/4 Art. candied ginger candied in small cubes
• 0.5 tbsp. brown sugar
• 1/3 Art. honey
• 1/4 Art. brandy, optional
• 1 tbsp. l finely grated orange peel
• 2 tsp finely grated lemon peel
• 2 tbsp. l lemon juice
• 0.5 tsp ground allspice
• 0.5 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp ground cloves
• 1/4 Art. (60 gr.) Melted butter
• 1 egg mixed with 2 tbsp. l water, for lubrication
• Granulated sugar or sprinkler

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Recipe preparation:

1. Dough:

   Combine flour, sugar and salt. Add vegetable oil and stir it with a dough knife, or a mixer with a nozzle with a spatula up to uniform wet crumbs.

2. Add butter and chop until finely chopped, but to pieces of oil were visible. Mix water and vinegar (or lemon juice) and pour everything into the flour mixture, stirring until the dough converges into a lump. Form from it 2 disks, wrap in a film and put in refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
3. The dough can be prepared in advance and stored for 2 days in the refrigerator or 3 months in the freezer. Defrost before rolling him in the fridge.

4. Filling:

   Mix grated apple, raisins, dried cranberries and candied ginger with brown sugar, honey, cognac, lemon juice, orange and lemon zest and spices. Cover and place in refrigerator for at least 2 hours or a day.

5. Preheat the oven to 200 ° C. Take the dough out of the refrigerator for 15-30 minutes before rolling. On a lightly floured working roll one dough disk into a circle 0.5 cm thick. Sprinkle a cake mold with a diameter of 22 cm into flour and put on it rolled dough. Trim the excess and pinch the edges so that they turned out corrugated.
6. Stir in the melted butter into the filling and spread it out evenly. dispensing, onto the dough in a mold. Roll out the second test disc and with Use cookie cutter to cut out any shapes. Lay out carved figures on top of the filling so that they are almost touched over the entire surface of the cake. Grease the dough with an egg and sprinkle with sugar.
7. Put the cake on a baking sheet covered with baking paper, and bake for 10 minutes at 200 ° C. Then turn down oven temperature to 190 ° C, and bake for about 40 minutes, until the cake is golden brown. Cool pie for 2 hours before slicing or cool to room temperature and refrigerate.