My younger son asked me if I was going to make some mince pies this Christmas. He loves them. I haven't got round to baking any for a year or two but I knew I had some jars of mincemeat in the cupboard. I found four! Obviously I had good intentions in recent years but not seen the task through. I opened them all to see if the contents were still edible. Two of them were horrid and two were so/so. I rummaged in the store cupboard and found the remains of some ready-to-eat prunes so chopped those up, grated a couple of tiny Cox's Orange Pippin apples, added the contents of the two, slightly crystallising jars of mincemeat, sloshed in some brandy and it can sit there until tomorrow when I will have a mincepie baking fest.
Many years ago I used to write restaurant reviews for the local rag. I always thought it was a bit of a swizz because I never got to go to any restaurants for a free meal but muddled through by reading the menus! I was reviewing a new Indian restaurant in Farnham and highlighted a couple of promising dishes, one of them listing 'mincemeat' as an ingredient. The printers misprinted the word and it came out as 'micemeat'! A bit unfortunate to say the least. However the little hiccough made its way to feature in the Radio 4 News Quiz programme where they read out howlers at the end of the programme. I thought that was rather good fun!
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