Excellent Lemon Mincemeat Recipe ingredients

• ½ cupful Crisco
• 2 large lemons
• 4 apples
• ¼ lb. chopped candied lemon peel
• 1 lb. currants
• 1¾ cupfuls sugar
• 1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon
• 1 teaspoonful powdered ginger
• ½ teaspoonful grated nutmeg
• ½ teaspoonful powdered allspice
• ¼ teaspoonful powdered cloves
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• ½ cupful seeded raisins
• ½ cupful chopped nut meats

To prepare this Excellent Lemon Mincemeat Recipe, first extract juice from lemons and remove pips. Now put lemons into saucepan, cover with cold water, and boil until lemon feels quite tender. Change water at least twice, drain and pound peel to a paste, add apples, cored, peeled and chopped, lemon peel, Crisco, currants, raisins, salt, spices, lemon juice, nut meats, and sugar. Put into a jar and cover. This mincemeat is excellent for pies and tartlets.

Sufficient for four pies.