Holiday Baking| Christmas Fruit Mince Pies … Recipe

Ingredients

• 1/2 to 3/4 cup fruit mincemeat {recipe follows}
• 1/2 egg white {or yolk for egg wash}
• Vanilla sugar for sprinkling
• Pâte Sucrée / Sweet Pastry
• 200gm all purpose flour
• 2 tbsp sugar
• pinch of salt
• 100gm chilled butter, cubed
• 1 egg, lightly whisked with fork
• 1/2 vanilla bean, scraped
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1-2tbsp chilled water {to bind if required}
• Mincemeat or fruit mix, sans suet {you will need about 1/2 to 3/4 cup of this}
• 700gms raisins, chopped if desired
• 200 currants
• 100gms orange peel, chopped
• 170gms almonds, chopped
• 250gms cashewnuts, chopped
• 100gms candied cherries, chopped
• 1/4 cup Cherry liquor/brandy
• 1/2 cup rum {or brandy}
• 3/4 cup fresh orange juice {from 3 keenus/oranges}
• Juice of 3-4 limes
• Zest of 2 keenus/oranges
• 4 tbsp garam masala
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