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Mincemeat, with Beef

Stone and cut two pounds of raisins (Valencias), wash and dry two pounds of currants, mince one pound of lean beef, free from skin and gristle, chop two pounds of beef suet very fine, add two pounds of moist sugar. Cut into small pieces six ounces of mixed candied peel--orange, citron, and lemon. Pare and core a pound of apples, grate a small nutmeg and the rind of two lemons, squeeze out the juice of one, add a full tea-spoonful of allspice, and a pinch of salt. Mix these ingredients well together, pour over them a large wine-glassful of brandy; press tightly into an earthen jar and exclude the air. Mincemeat is best made a fortnight before it is wanted. When about to use it, take from the bottom of the jar. Probable cost, 6s. for this quantity.