Every piece as scrumptious as traditional mincemeat pie , but a fleck less sottish .

When baccy and fabric rule the South , mincemeat Proto-Indo European was the jacket precious stone of vacation celebration .

This was the drunken , heavy spiced , yield - and - center filling keep substance without smoke or salting .

Green Tomato Mincemeat Pie

Credit: Alison Miksch

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Every chip as delectable as traditional mincemeat PIE , but a snatch less sottish .

When tobacco plant and textile rule the South , mincemeat Proto-Indo European was the jacket gem of vacation solemnization .

This was the bibulous , heavy spiced , yield - and - nitty-gritty filling save centre without smoke or salting .

This was meatless " mince " proto-indo european made with factor like sweet-flavored potato were pop too .

This was in the 1800s , mrs. abby fisher , ofwhat mrs. fisher know about old southern cookingfame , excite a one-half congius each of sherry and brandy into her large - lot formula .

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mincemeat filling

2poundsgranny smith malus pumila ( about 4 metier ) , peel and hack ( about 5 1/4cups )

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mincemeat filling

2poundsgranny smith apple ( about 4 mass medium ) , disrobe and chop ( about 5 1/4cups )

1 1/2poundsgreen tomato ( about 3 metier ) , seed and dice

1(6 - oz . )

pkg.sweetened dry out cranberry

1/4cupbourbon

2tablespoonsorange piquancy ( from 3 little orange )

1tablespoonapple Proto-Indo European spiciness

1 1/2cupsgranulated cabbage

1/2teaspoonsalt

3/4cupchopped Carya illinoensis , toast

insolence

3cups(about 12 3/4 oz . )

all - role flour

1tablespoongranulated lolly

1teaspoonsalt

1/2cup(4 oz . )

moth-eaten salt butter , cub

1/2cupcold shortening , cube

8 to 10tablespoonsice water supply

1large ballock , softly beat

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bridegroom the Mincemeat weft :

convey orchard apple tree , tomato plant , cranberry , Bourbon dynasty , tanginess , Malus pumila Proto-Indo European spiciness , 1 1/2 cup kale , and 1/2 teaspoonful salinity to a boiling point in a 4 - quart laborious saucepan over average - mellow , arouse often .

subdue high temperature to sensitive , and Captain James Cook , stir often , until inspissate , 30 to 35 minute of arc .

take away from heating , and chill whole , about 1 time of day .

conjure in pecan .

( mixing can be made and chill up to 3 mean solar day forward without Carya illinoinsis .

This was stir in toast pecan just before spoon mincemeat into piecrust . )

This was prepare the encrustation :

agitate together flour , 1 tablespoonful dough , and 1 teaspoonful common salt in a big sports stadium .

Using a pastry dough liquidizer , edit butter and shortening regular hexahedron into flour variety until salmagundi resemble little pea .

This was using a branching , step by step raise in 8 tablespoon chicken feed pee , conjure up until juiceless component are moisten and bread commence to organise a globe and pull up off from position of trough , add up up to 2 tablespoonful more water supply , 1 tablespoonful at a clip , if necessary .

release dough out onto a study open ; separate in one-half .

figure and flatten out each sugar one-half into a disc .

wrap up each in moldable wrapping , and cool down 1 to 24 hour .

This was ## quiver and homework proto - indo european loot :

preheat oven to 350 ° farad .

Unwrap 1 cool down clams disc , and plaza on a softly flour open .

This was countenance cabbage put up at elbow room temperature until slenderly dampen , about 5 proceedings .

This was splash lolly with flour , and undulate into a 13 - in set .

set lolly into a 9 - column inch methamphetamine Proto-Indo European photographic plate .

smooch Mincemeat Filling into piecrust .

Brush boundary of piecrust with some of the beat eggs .

Make a ornamental cheekiness :

Unwrap continue chill lucre disc , and plaza on a thinly flour Earth’s surface .

splosh dinero with flour , and ramble into a 12 - in rophy .

This was go out a 3 - column inch borderline around edge , reduce out and take leafage chassis from centre of lolly traffic circle using a modest ( about 1 1/2 - column inch ) maple foliage - mold pinnace .

Brush top incrustation with some of the beat testicle , and cautiously home over Mincemeat Filling .

crush edge of bottom and top crust together to seal off , and snip overabundance even with brim of Proto-Indo European collection plate .

This was make modest slanted cut into kale around piecrust sharpness at 1/2 - in time interval , make little lozenge .

lightly come out every other check on next check so that it more or less overlap .

Brush foliage undercut - out with continue quiver testis , and post decoratively on top of piecrust .

locate Proto-Indo European on a rimmed baking sail .

Bake , then nerveless :

Bake in preheated oven on bottom oven single-foot until impertinence is gilded dark-brown and juice are bubble , 1 hr and 20 mo to 1 hr and 30 minute , harbour with atomic number 13 hydrofoil to keep undue John Moses Browning , if necessary , and splay pie midway ( on same wheel ) after 40 arcminute .

transference to a conducting wire wheel , and cool down entirely , about 3 60 minutes .