I have been bemoaning the fact that this kind of pie has virtually disappeared from American life. I think partly it’s because of the name, no-one wants dessert with meat in it (does mincemeat pie filling still contain meat? I’ll have to check the next time I go to the supermarket). And what a good vehicle for rum sauce!
So would you try this pie under a different name, if you didn’t know what it was?
Raisin-spice pie?
Melange pie?
Any other suggestions?
Roddy
Joe.
Joe, the Mincemeat Pie.
Spiced fruit pie?
I have one of these on my kitchen counter right now - mincemeat tarts are one of my favourite desserts EVER!
who likes this crap pie.
Why not call it a mince pie? That’s what they’re called in the UK and in Ireland.
UK-ers and Irish people also use the word mince for what Americans call ground beef. Yet no one has the slightest problem with the name of mince pie for a sweet pie or a savoury pie.
If you get offered a mince pie and it comes with custard or cream, you know it’s a sweet one. If it comes with peas and gravy, you know it’s the savoury thing. 
Thank you for your valuable contribution. 
I dont like it either. 
What about calling it “Toothache-inducing Instant Headache Pie”. My mother used to make it even more revolting by putting a huge whollop of something she called “hard sauce” on it, which was as far as I can tell just sugar and whiskey and butter.
“Only thing worse than fruitcake” pie. 
What? Every grocery store I’ve ever shopped at around Thanksgiving and Christmas time has had them, and if people weren’t buying them the stores wouldn’t carry them.
Love them. Cooked one for my birthday instead of cake.
The recipes I’ve seen do, as do most that I’ve seen at supermarkets. I’m trying to find a source of beef suet to make my own.
I make the pastry with freshly squeezed orange juice instead of water and zest. And a half teaspoon of mascarpone inside each individually sized pie.
I’ve had supermarket mince pie and it never had meat in it. Nor does the one at Marie Callendar’s restaurant. And, I think the best name for it is mince pie. And, I like it!
I know that None Such list it in their mince meat (which is the main brand I find in my local Kroger), but Crosse & Blackwell don’t. I’d be interested to compare flavors…
The recipes I found with a Google search were more or less evenly split between meat and no-meat versions - I think a little more toward the no-meat side. AApparently Borden’s None Such mincemeat does contain beef, though Cross & Blackwell and Robertson’s mincemeats don’t.
^^What I’d really like to do is go back to the 19th century recipe and see how that tastes compared to the modern version. (I’d go back to the 16th century one, but it seems a little too savory).
Raisin pie. It’s raisin pie, and everybody knows it, and the annual “Meat or Not” argument is simply meant to distract the populace from noticing that they are, in fact, being fed nasty disgusting raisins. Blech!!!
Soaking them in rum may lower the pain threshold a bit, but it still doesn’t disguise the wretched taste of raisins.
It’s my Father’s favorite Christmas pie, and I make one for him whenever we’re together. I watch him eat it and think of myself as getting revenge for all those childhood punishments.
Note from Celtling: I think the next time my Mom makes that for my Ahair Mor (Irish for Granpop) she just ought to smack him in the face with it. I really think so! LOL!
I have my grandmother’s mincemeat pie recipe and it does contain meat. I am almost curious enough to try making it.
I don’t think mincemeat pie is very popular in the Nort’land. I’ve never seen anybody serve it at a meal. You might be able to get it in a restaurant, I suppose. I do have to say, meat or not, raisin pie? :eek:. Eeyuk!
Feel free to call it Kestrel Repel.
Thanks, everyone who had anything useful to contribute (and not so much to those who only came in to say they don’t like it, you all can go away if you would be so kind :rolleyes: ).
Since I live in the US, the word “mince” does not mean ground meat here, but I think most people just think “mincemeat” in their head when they hear that word.
The None Such recipe linked to below contains, besides meat, raisins, apples, citrus peel, plus sweeteners and other flavorings. So maybe we could call it “spiced fruit pie” to deceive the uneducated masses.
Roddy
When I was a kid, I was convinced it was a misspelling of “micemeat” pie.