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Walkers 6 Pack Mince Pies | 
 enlarge | Brand: Walkers
Category: Grocery
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 42524
Media: Misc.
ASIN: B000YF4PZW
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| Features:
| • | Mincemeat pies also known as Mincemeat Tarts | | • | Just in case you don't know - there is no mine in these pies!!! | | • | The Walkers story begins in 1898 | | • | Made In Scotland | | • | Great Christmas dessert of treat |
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Product Description
Made to a traditional recipe, the succulent mincemeat combines with meltingly delicious shortcrust pastry to produce the definitive taste of Christmas.
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| Customer Reviews:
Great stuff! Especially around Christmas ... November 30, 2008
Nicholas Gomez (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Heat these up in the microwave for about 15-25 seconds and they're ready. Too bad there's NO MEAT inside! Mince pie (or mincemeat pies) are a traditional festive British sweet pastry, usually consumed during the Christmas and New Year period. Mince Pies normally have a pastry top, but versions may also be found without the top in which case they are known as a mince tart.
The name 'mincemeat' comes from the original recipe. Up to the Victorian era the mince(meat) pie would actually have been a spiced meat pie with some dried fruit. Today the only remnant of the original meat is (sometimes) the inclusion of suet. Typically fillings today consist entirely of fruit-based mincemeat containing dried fruit such as raisins, currants, glace cherries, apricot, candied peel; spices such as cinnamon or nutmeg; nuts such as walnuts or chopped almonds; suet; and some kind of alcohol, usually either brandy or rum.
Walkers Mince pies are suitable for vegetarians because the suet is replaced by vegetable oil. The pie is often finished off with a delicate dusting of either castor sugar or icing sugar on top.
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