Recipe #81: Mincemeat Muffins

Mincemeat Muffins
taken from Dinner With Julie

The 201 Muffins recipe for Mincemeat Muffins called for mincemeat and walnuts--pretty simple, really. I found several mincemeat muffin recipes on the internet, but decided to go with Mincemeat Muffins from the website, New England Today Food. The recipe suggested using homemade mincemeat, which I would have done except it requires at least two weeks to "cure." Since I didn't have that much time, I decided to buy some already prepared. Or at least I did until I realized mincemeat is no longer as easy to come by as it was when I was a child. I guess it's less popular than it once was. I still like mincemeat, though, and finally did track some down (a bit expensive) and used it in the recipe.

Since mincemeat without the meat (the only kind I would consider these days) is really just apples, raisins, spices and orange/lemon peel, the muffins came out tasting like other raisin/apple combinations. They were tasty, though not terribly sweet, which was fine with me and my tasters. Mincemeat muffins, though, are not at all like mincemeat pie, as the mincemeat is distributed throughout the batter and doesn't really assert itself very much, so I was a little disappointed at that.

I did enjoy them, however, and might even make them again. I rated them 5 out of 5.

Next up: Molasses, Raisins and Bran Muffins