Mincemeat Cake Recipe

This Mincemeat Cake Recipe comes from my family's kitchens, so if you would like to try mincemeat cake, follow the directions below. 

The customary form of mincemeat today typically consists of raisins, spices, grated apple, and animal suet, though many commercial varieties use hard vegetable fat instead, making it completely vegetarian. 

Mincemeat History:

Mincemeat was originally a conglomeration of bits of meat, dried fruit and spices, created as an alternative to smoking or drying for preservation, a variant form of sausage. Mincemeat containing actual meat has become less common over the years.

The customary form of mincemeat today typically consists of raisins, spices, grated apple, and animal suet, though many commercial varieties use hard vegetable fat instead, making it completely vegetarian. Mincemeat may also contain currants, candied fruits, and brandy, rum or other liquor.

The mince in mincemeat traces its roots back to the Latin minutia ("something small"). The word mincemeat is an adaptation of an earlier term minced meat, simply meaning that, "meat chopped into small pieces". As an ingredient or substance, however, mincemeat has almost always been one word. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Mincemeat Coffee Cake

Ingredients:
2 c. flour
3/4 c. sugar
2½ t. baking powder
½ t. salt
½ c. shortening
1 egg
½ c. milk
3/4 c. mincemeat
½ c. nuts

Instructions:
Sift dry ingredients cut in shortening.  Mix in egg and milk. Add mincemeat and nuts. Bake 350º 35-40 min. or until done. Sugar glaze may be poured over cake while warm.

Powdered Sugar Glaze:

1 box powdered sugar
½ c. milk
vanilla
salt

Mix all together and bring to a boil for about 7 minutes or until becomes clear glaze.