This is the time of the year I would like to make all kinds of special things but alas, I don’t really have the time and ….lets face it what would be the point, my adorable teenager, Skater would probably not eat any of it . He most certainly would not consider eating this Fruit Mince Crumble Slice!!
I had a lunch to go to the other day….and so I squeezed this in amongst the Canapés and desserts I am making for other people. It’s a good one for making ahead or making as gifts.
In the meantime, now that school is finished. I have been encouraging my school leaver to get himself organised ( for life …).
During the week he had to post off his acceptance for the course he wants to do at AIM . I received a phone call that day at work with an important question. At the post office, Skater had managed to buy an envelope and one of those stamps that looks like a piece of paper with writing stamped on it. He had addressed the envelope (another story in itself), but he couldn’t work out where to put the stamp or how to stick it on…………………….here is the silence that met this question…surely he was joking with me? This is where I also received quite a bit of flak from my work colleges because I told him to go back into the post office and ASK! I know that was cruel , but I am sure this was a valuable life experience for him. It remains to be seen whether anyone of his generation will ever need to post a letter, but at least he knows how to lick a stamp now…..and where it goes.
In other news, he is cooking dinner tonight. A lovely pasta dish incorporating a present he was recently given. Tell me if you have ever seen this shape pasta before?
Well neither HAD I , until now
Fruit Mince Crumble Slice
Ingredients
- 1 cup sultanas
- 1 cup golden raisins
- 1 cup sour cherries
- 1 cup apricots chopped
- 100 gm red cherries
- 1 cup seedless muscatels or currants
- 220 gm orange marmalade
- 2 whole zest and juice of 2 oranges
- 2 whole Zest and juice of 2 lemons
- 90 gm brown sugar
- 2 Tablespoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon allspice
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper A couple of grinds of fresh
- 2 grated apples
- 100 gm butter
Pastry
- 450 gm flour 3 cups
- 225 gm butter softened
- 100 gm fine sugar
- 2 whole eggs beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla
crumble
- 120 gm brown sugar
- 120 gm butter
- 160 gm flour
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Put all of the ingredients for the fruit mince, except the apples into a pot and simmer for a few minutes ( 5-8) until well combined and bubbling. Stir in the apple and cool. I like to make this the day before
- Put the softened butter in a mixer and beat till fluffy add the sugar and beat again till pale.
- Add the eggs and mix in well. Pour in the flour and mix till just combined . Tip out the dough and push together. Next push into the lined brownie pan, till evenly spaced and flat. Chill in the fridge ( 1/2 to 1 hour)
- Put the ingredients for the crumble into a mixer with the flat mixing paddle. Mix till well combined and the mixture is stick and forming lumps. A crumble must be sticky and lumpy or it will be too dry. If it is floury add a little more butter and mix
- Bake the base blind until just golden. Cool slightly
- Spread fruit mince onto the pastry base and cover all over with the crumble mix.
- Bake till the crumble is golden and crispy. ( Approximately 1/2 an hour)
Here they are packed and ready for Santa
Googled for a recipe to use left over fruit mince and came across your blog. I will be using this recipe tommorrow and like everyone else, had a good laugh about the stamp! makes me feel OLD!!
although many of the ingredients are the same, this sounds SO much better than fruitcake! delightful!
and though i’ve never seen pasta boobs, they look like lots of fun. 🙂
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hahaha that pasta is too funny! Great idea for a Christmas slice, I’d love a piece about now!
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What a great idea making a mince slice! Love the way you packaged it too 🙂
Christine @ Cooking Crusade recently posted..Christmas Truffles
I love this take on the traditional mince pie 🙂 I’d happily tuck into this with some ice cream 😀 Merry Christmas!
Monica (@gastromony) recently posted..Cauliflower ‘Bread’
Pasta boobs = awesome!! Also, this slice looks delicious!
K-bobo @ Gormandize with A-dizzle & K-bobo recently posted..Succotash (American Beans and Corn)
I would certainly eat this fruit crumble. How amusing that your son didn’t know where to put the stamp!
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Oh yes, very amusing!
This looks delicious – I love any kind of crumble!
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Haha I guess there is a whole generation out there who doesn’t know how to lick a stamp! Just writing that I can taste the awful things. I remember helping dad with the Christmas cards one year. Swear I got a little light-headed after a while.
What a nice twist on fruit mince pies!
Well that means you at least know where to put a stamp claire
This is looks absolutely amazing!! And I love mincemeat!
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Thanks Jennifer. Its the simple version without any suet but it’s nice
Yes, I can imagine receiving EXACTLY the same phone call……LOVE the slice – will there be any left????
Yummy! I’m always up for alternative ways to use fruit mince as I’m not the biggest fan of mince pies – love all that crunchy crumbly topping 🙂
thelittleloaf recently posted..Chai Spiced Syrup, Apple Cinnamon Crisps & an Innocent Mocktail
This slice is brilliant! A crumble topping would be the best with a spicy fruit mince! Yum!
The Life of Clare recently posted..Sweets For Santa – Fruit Mince Pies
Gorgeous mince crumble slices! And they are so beautifully and festively packed!
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That’s an awesome name for a cookbook.
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Really ???. You funny thing
I can just imagine that I would get the same kind of phone call or worse – that Archie forgot to post off his application altogether. Teenage boys do seem to need to learn these lessons and good on you for making him do it rather than doing it for him. I love the look of your slice, Tanya xx
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Oh clever you – why eat a mince pie when you can eat a whole tray of mince slice? It looks so nice all packaged up, too. Great recipe, Tania. Just one thing – I think you may need to enter the hop again as I can’t find your entry in the linkytools dashboard. Would you mind trying again? Thanks!
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