As promised, its back to normal here with a recipe. Now, you might think that mincemeat is an odd ingredient to be using in June....but I am odd.
Actually, the real reason is that I found a rather large jar of homemade mincemeat left over from Christmas right at the back of my cupboard and I fancied baking with it. Using my trusty friend Twitter I came across this recipe on Cooking Cakes and Children blog and gave it a go. I used a slightly smaller baking tin so the slices are a bit thicker, but that's really the only change I made.
Delicious as an after school snack with a glass of ice cold milk.
Mincemeat Squares
Ingredients: makes 16 small squares
200g self raising flour
175g caster sugar
175g unsalted butter, cubed
115g porridge oats
1 jar mincemeat
175g caster sugar
175g unsalted butter, cubed
115g porridge oats
1 jar mincemeat
Method:
Step 1: Preheat oven to 180c/gas 4 and grease a 20x20com baking tin.
Step 2:Mix together the flour, sugar and oats then rub in the butter until breadcrumb like clumps form.
Step 3: Tip half of the mix into the baking tin and press down. Spread over the mincemeat then put the other half of the oaty mix on top.
Step 4: Bake for around 35-40 minutes.
Step 5: Mark into squares but leave to cool completely in tin.
5 comments:
Oh yum, that sounds good Beth! And you know I quite fancy some mincemeat, sufficent time must have passed!
Sounds yummy. Mincmeat doesn't have to be refined just for xmas. Yum
Isn't it funny the things we equate with a holiday that are really good anytime
There should be more mincemeat in June!
I still have mincemeat left from last year, really like the sound of these squares!
And June isn't so odd - we still have mincemeat crumble on our works menu!
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