Mince Pies
The festive season will soon be here again, Christmas puddings, mince pie's and all things nice, blood glucose off t the scale again, a right good telling off t from our diabetic nurse in the new year, Well not this year.
I tried a recipe early in the year to dispose of all my green tomatoes for chutney that was sugar free and it was really worth the effort making the chutney, so we thought about it why not sugar free mince pie's and Christmas puddings, we left it a bit late this year for Christmas pudding to mature but we will make one now for next year Festivities, the mince pie's Hmm nice. The one thing that came through was natures sugar sweetness in the richness of the fruit which we found to be nice and enough being diabetics Hmm, maybe more brandy in the next batch, Pam when we making the next batch. lol.
Well here goes hope you enjoy them as much as we have, already made two batches of 2 dozen each, all gone.
Ingredients1 medium eating apple
1/3 cup dried prunes
1/3 cup dried apricots
1 cup sultanas
1/3 cup dried currants
1 tsp grated lemon rind
1 tsp grated orange rind
1/2 tsp ground mixed spice
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1/4 - 1/2 cup brandy or sherry
Preparation
Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Leave for at least 3-4 days before using, so that the flavors can develop.
Pastry, Just roll, short crust pastry (savory) or one of your own choice. ooh the aroma coming from the bowl, hmm wonderful. I tilted the bowl just to show the amount of brandy going into the dried fruit, which all will be soaked up into the fruit in the next few days.
Cooking instructions. Preheated oven 25 - 30 mins gas Mk 6. Feel free to let us all know, if you have a better sugar free recipe. Enjoy.
