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Marzipan mince pies (recipes) and shaughraun (iou)
Marzipan mince pies (recipes)
Makes 12
Preparation time
less than 30 mins
Cooking time
10 to 30 mins
Ingredients
100g/4oz plain flour100g/4oz self-raising flour100g/4oz butter, cut into cubes1 tbsp caster sugarfinely grated zest of 1 lemon85g/3oz marzipan250g/9oz mincemeat (just over ½ jar)icing sugar, for sifting
Method
1. preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6. 2. Put both flours in a mixing bowl, add the butter and rub into the flour until the mixture is like fine breadcrumbs. 3. Stir in the sugar and lemon zest, then mix in 45-60ml/3-4tbsp cold water, stirring with a round-bladed knife until it comes together.4. Work dough gently into a ball (do this in the food processor if you prefer). Roll it out thinly on a lightly floured surface. 5. Stamp out into 9cm/3½in rounds (reserve the excess pastry) and use them to line a 12-hole bun tin, gathering up the pastry edges slightly into folds.6. Cut the marzipan into 24 pieces and put two in the bottom of each pastry case, then spoon 5g/1 tsp mincemeat into each.7. Roll out the pastry trimmings, cut out star shapes, and put them on top of the mincemeat.8. Bake for 12-15 minutes until the pastry is crisp and golden. Cool in the tin for 5 minutes, then remove and cool on a wire rack. Dust with icing sugar to serve.
shaughraun (iou)
shaughraun noun. Anglo-Irish & Canad. dial. M19.
[Irish seachran a wandering, a straying, an error.]
go a shaughraun, go wrong. M19.
A wandering person, a vagrant. Also, an itinerant state. L19.
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