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Mincemeat and Brandy Parfait

Posted in - Puddings & Recipes on December 25th 2013 0 Comments brandy ice cream mincemeat parfait

We were having friends for lunch on a Sunday last week and I drew a total blank on what to have for pudding. So I made this, and it is yum – think mince pies, brandy butter, and ice cream. And then it became an excuse to eat ice cream alongside Granny Dot’s Christmas pudding. This …

Eat meat from happily reared animals, and then you have their permission to really enjoy what you eat. Seconded by my great great grandmother, Dorothy Peel, in her books 100 years ago: ‘To judge by a letter which has appeared in the daily press and from private conversations it would seem that many people think that to abstain from meat on one of two days a week and to limit their total consumption to 2 ½ lb. per head per week is a restriction which may seriously affect their health. To be quite frank, it may affect their greed, but it certainly will not adversely affect their health; indeed, there seems good reason to think that less meat-eating would improve the health of the well-to-do.’ Mrs C.S. Peel, The Eat Less Meat Book, 1917