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A mince pie (also mincemeat pie in North America, and fruit mince pie in Australia and New Zealand) is a sweet pie of English origin filled with mincemeat, being a mixture of fruit, spices and suet. [ a ] The pies are traditionally served during the Christmas season in much of the English-speaking world .
Mincemeat is a mixture of chopped apples and dried fruit, distilled spirits or vinegar, spices, and optionally, meat and beef suet. Mincemeat is usually used as a pie or pastry filling. Traditional mincemeat recipes contain meat , notably beef or venison , as this was a way of preserving meat prior to modern preservation methods. [ 1 ]
A small, double-crust meat pie filled with minced mutton or other meat. Sea-pie Cipaille: United Kingdom: Savory A layered meat pie made with meat or fish, and is known to have been served to British sailors during the 18th century. Sfiha: Lebanon: Savory An open-faced meat pie made with ground mutton. Shaker lemon pie: United States: Sweet
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The name is derived from Low German mett for "chopped pork meat without fat", or Old Saxon meti for "food". It consists of minced pork meat, generally seasoned with salt and black pepper, regionally also with garlic or caraway, and eaten raw. It is also possible to add chopped onion, in which case it is known as Zwiebelmett (onion mett).
In Australia and New Zealand, a meat pie is a hand-sized pie containing diced or minced meat and gravy, sometimes with onion, mushrooms or cheese and is often consumed as a takeaway food snack. This variant of the standard meat pie is considered iconic. [1] It was described by New South Wales Premier Bob Carr in 2003 as Australia's "national dish".
The Fray Bentos brand is known for the manufacture and sale in the United Kingdom of a range of tinned meat pies such as steak and kidney and minced beef and onion. [1] [2] Since 2011, the brand in the UK has been owned by Baxters, who manufacture Fray Bentos products at their site at Fochabers in Scotland. [3]
The meat used may be either previously cooked or freshly minced. The usual meats are beef or lamb. The terms shepherd's pie and cottage pie have been used interchangeably since they came into use in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, although some writers insist that a shepherd's pie should contain lamb or mutton, and a cottage pie, beef.