Talk:Mincemeat

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[edit] Merge?

This article, and fruitmince should be merged. In my experience fruitmince is a vegetarian version of mincemeat.

A couple of other points - (i) clarify the difference between mincemeat and minced meat? (ii)while it's true that meat (other than, sometimes, suet) has disappeared from commercial mincemeat products, many homemade recipes still include beef, see example [1] 139.163.138.14 02:31, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

It is arguable that mincemeat ever included meat. The word MEAT orginally just meant FOOD, (Minced Food). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.136.220.190 (talk) 12:59, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

I agree with the unsigned comment above. I've always known it as being a minced (as in ground) mixture of raisins, apples, suet etc, and certinly no meat. The article should probably refer to mincemeat as being just that and possibly that earlier recipes included meat. Dutchdavey 13:11, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

The idea that spices were used to cover "off" flavours is just not supported by evidence. Also, in response to the two comments above, 15th-19th century, and even some 20th century recipes _do_ include meat. Beastiepaws (talk) 07:24, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Preservation

The notes in this article about food preservation are incorrect (or at least highly misleading). There is little, if any, evidence to suggest that making pies containing fruit and meat was used as a method of preservation in medieval Europe. --Doc (talk) 20:34, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Agreed! Beastiepaws (talk) 01:59, 19 February 2008 (UTC)