MINCE pies are a Christmas staple – but which supermarket brands taste the best? We’ve compared supermarket own-brand mince ...

Using a star-shaped biscuit cutter cut out 12 pastry stars for the top of the pies. ¾ fill pastry-lined tins with mincemeat and place pastry star on top. Brush lightly with a beaten egg and bake in ...

Divide and shape into three equal-sized discs (you'll need to make the mince pies in three separate ... be sturdy enough to support the dense mincemeat filling. Using a fluted pastry cutter ...

Lightly butter a 12-hole pie or patty tin ... large enough to fill the base of the prepared tin. Press gently into each hole, then fill with the mincemeat. Cut out another 12 slightly smaller ...

As we’ve just discovered, nothing says Christmas quite like the taste of a mince pie. And if you’d rather make your own than ... For the filling, take the jar of mincemeat, add orange zest ...

But this week a concerned parent started a thread on Mumsnet entitled "feeding children mince pies with brandy in", asking: "Have I been getting my kids ... make their own mincemeat - it's pretty ...

Modern versions of mincemeat pie are often vegetarian. The fruit filling usually includes apples, sugar, raisins and molasses. The WGN Morning News team also chats about EuroDate, tiny knit ...

The spices were included to represent the three wise men, while mincemeat was included as an ode to the shepherds. The meaty filling ... to put their own stamp on the classic pie.