Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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> On Sun 20 Dec 2009 06:55:17p, Arri London told us...
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> > Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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> >> On Sat 19 Dec 2009 08:28:54p, Janet Bostwick told us...
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> >> > "Gregory Morrow" > wrote in message
> >> > news > >> >> Tis' the season for pies, but whatever happened to the once -
> >> >> ubiquitous mince pie? I can't say I've even ever tasted one....
> >> >>
> >> > snip
> >> > It wasn't part of my family tradition, but I did acquire a recipe
> >> > from a friend and made it once long ago. It was o.k., but it never
> >> > interested me to make it again.
> >> > Janet
> >>
> >> It's long been one of my favorites that I make at Thanksgiving and
> >> Christmas. I actually only make the mincemeat one a year, prefereably
> >> at the end of the the previous Christmas season. I think mincemeat pie
> >> has lost favor with the American public in general, but it's still very
> >> popular in the UK, more in tarts than in full size pies.
> >>
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> > <snip recipe>
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> > Not a fan of mince pies either. The real 'terror' (LOL) of the UK
> > Christmas season for me was having to eat mince pies, Christmas Cake and
> > Christmas Pudding when invited to anyone's home LOL.
> >
> > I do have a recipe for a meat-containing mincemeat pie, if anyone is
> > interested. Very old school.
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> I should have been in your place. I'd have loved it. Mince Pies, mince
> tarts, Christmas Cake, Christmas Pudding, etc. Anything laden with dried
> fruits and peels and well matured. My first taste of anything at all like
> that was my grandmother's fruitcake. I loved it, even though some othe
> family memebers didn't.
>

You might not have liked it on a daily basis for weeks at a time LOL.