Mince Pies

[Toper]

As an individual totally opposed to all religions, in every aspect of their belief systems and practices, I have to admit to being partial to mince pies.

I don't want a recipe for baking mince pies, but does anybody have any ideas about a recipe for a mince pie liquor?

[Mash]

If you want rich mince pies. Use rum in the mix and ground almonds in the pastry. Yum.

[gaza the instructor]

I had some thoughts along these lines Toper.
But all said no to greasy with the mince meat.
So I have made a Chrimbo Gin. Used Sputty to
make a litre of Boodles Gin, put in a 1,5ltr
Kilner . Washed 200g Strawberries, quartered
and infused for a week. Strawbs turned white
as usual. Filtered off, then added 10ml pure
Vanilla extract and 50g Dextrose.
End result a slightly sweet but very moorish
Strawberry and Vanilla concoction, I wouldn't
say it was a Gin but its lovely with ice and
a drop of Lemonade.

[Toper]

I tried 1.5 litre of neutral + 75cl of water.

Place 200g of Morrisons 'Best' Port & Brandy Mincemeat into fusion basket lined with paper coffee filters (to keep mincemeat in place).

Stopped at 60% abv.. Giving me proximately 600ml @ 70%abv

Using a syrup made from 200mls of water and 200g of sugar I diluted down to 40%

Certainly not mincemeat flavoured, but does produce a very sweet, interestingly flavoured liqueur.

As an experiment, very well worth while.