National Mincemeat Day:

National Mincemeat Day is celebrated on October 26^th every year. It is a 15^th-century English recipe where meat and fruit are mixed to make a very tasty recipe.

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Why National Mincemeat Day

This Day originally comes from 15^th-century recipes and meals which were made with the help of meat and fruits. Many stories and recipes have been recovered from the early century, which has now been used to make this delicious dish. This day is celebrated to encourage people to make this dish by adding new flavors to old recipes. If you have not yet celebrated this day, you would want to prepare a recipe that will serve your palette.

Mincemeat dates back to a primitive time where it was used to preserve meat. It is also prepared to make a sweet pie with slushy fruits. But later in the 1900s, it lost its originality and popularity. Mincemeat has a variety of ingredients and spices in it, which are very different from meat and fruit. It is related to clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, and mace, which are added to it. If you want to make it spicy and yummier, you can combine the mincemeat with different flavors of vinegar, wine, or distilled spirits. It is famous in many countries like Ireland, Australia, Canada, the US, UK, South Africa, and many more.

But today, it is not that much in hype as people today are not aware of what happened way back in the 15^th century. They have no taste of the recipe and are not aware of the truth about this dish. Today, it is known as Mincemeat Pie. Also, the meat used now has been reduced, and more fruits are used to make this pie. This dish is a combination of meat or beef with a variety of sweet fruits like raisins, pear, apples, etc., and sometimes liquor is also added, such as rum, or brandy which give a unique flavor to it.

Mincemeat Pie is usually seen on the dinner table of many people on Thanksgiving day. Apart from this, the day is celebrated, and people come together to enjoy this beautiful evening. Also, mincemeat is made to preserve the food and meat for a longer duration. During the 1900s, the refrigerator came into existence, which reduced mincemeat’s popularity, due to which many generations grew up not knowing about this dish. But today, it is known as mincemeat pie which is made with a little bit of meat or no meat at all.

How can we Observe National Mincemeat Day?

Even though mincemeat has lost its touch in the modern world, the dish is still made in the people’s kitchen. This mincemeat is now made with fruits and liquor and is commonly known as mincemeat pie with some changes. The main aim is to preserve the meat without smoking or salting and making a meat pie. Numerous recipes are shared on social media by the people who celebrate this day.

Invite your friends and family to the dinner and serve your delicious recipe and make this evening unforgettable. Make sure while posting any picture or video on your social media, add #MincemeatPie, or #NationalMincemeatDay, which will help aware more people throughout the world who do not know about this day. You can also put up a video of your recipe with a #MincemeatPie where people can easily learn how to make this dish.

Interesting Facts about National Mincemeat Day

There are many facts which are very interesting about this day, and people should know about as many people are not aware of its originality-

• It is mainly prepared to preserve meat and food for long hours.
• It turned out into a pie in this modern era and is known as mincemeat pie.
• It is served mostly on Thanksgiving where people join together to enjoy a meat meal.
• The meat was preserved without using smoke or salt.
• There are plenty of different recipes which are made by adding some new ingredients to mincemeat pie which made it very popular.

History of National Mincemeat Day

National Mincemeat Day is mainly a very old recipe that came out as a meat pie with a blender of fruits, liquor, and meat. Even if people did not learn about this day or dish, it is still in existence and celebrated with cheerfulness and making a lovely evening. The complete history is still not known but what is left is that people do make mincemeat pie, and it is served as a dessert at various restaurants as well.