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A momentous theological discovery on my part

posted by [personal profile] selkie at 11:45pm on 14/12/2006
...I believe Jews don't make mincemeat (according to a Ruth Reichl anecdote) for the holidays because it's really just charoset with rum in it, and so it rings seasonally wrong to us if we prepare or serve it.

I just finished making a jar at my father-in-law's request, and it was quite tasty, but the finished product was ... how can I accurately express it? Rum raisin charoset. So familiar that its unfamiliarities ring wrong.
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posted by [personal profile] batyatoon at 03:50pm on 15/12/2006
... Does mincemeat actually have meat in it?
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posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 03:55pm on 15/12/2006
Nope! It's fruit and rum and chopped nuts and butter (I believe traditionally suet was used, but you can't even find suet anymore.)
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posted by [personal profile] batyatoon at 05:40pm on 15/12/2006
Huh. For some reason oh wait I know why I thought it did. It's 'cause in the Little House books it was one of the things that gets made after butchering time. (That'd be because of the suet, I'm guessing?)

Sounds interesting.
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