My grandfather’s favorite foods comprised a culinary genre all their own — what I called “old man food.” He loved organ meats, scrapple, sloppy stewed tomatoes, strong-tasting trout, lima beans and ...
Mince pie (or mincemeat pie, depending on where you’re from) is an English pie made with mincemeat, which is a mixture of dried fruit, spices, spirits, and sometimes—but not always—beef suet (the hard ...
A traditional British holiday pastry, mincemeat can best be described as a "boozy concoction of dried fruits." (Photo: Getty Creative) There are certain foods constantly associated with the holiday ...
Amid the holiday season, Thanksgiving in my family, present and past, always requires a mincemeat pie. Almost as important as stuffed turkey, cranberry sauce, Waldorf salad and a pumpkin pie is mince ...
For some families, it wouldn't be Christmas without mincemeat pies, and the recipe for making them is a closely guarded secret passed down to only one person per generation. Today, though, the name ...
Asda has become the first UK supermarket to offer chilled mince pies, bringing a fresh twist to Christmas 2025. The ...
As I child, I couldn't understand my grandfather's love for this special pie. As an adult, I finally get it. My grandfather’s favorite foods comprised a culinary genre all their own — what I called ...
In an era of tofu ice cream and veggie burgers, mincemeat pie has an image problem. If only it were called apple-raisin pie, which is what it tastes like. How did apple and pumpkin become the default ...