Here's the true spirit of the holidays, as shown by a lovely British couple:

[Ken Burch]

[MineralMan]

1. I love mince pie. Sadly, I'm a long, long way

from their shop. More's the pity.

[Angry Dragon]

3. My mother always made mince pie at Thanksgiving.........miss mince pie

[Ken Burch]

4. Maybe what they are doing could spread as a holiday tradition.

n/t.

[haele]

7. As usual, I'm making about 5 or 6 traditional mince pies this weekend. They aren't vegitarian.

I make real mince (bits of roast, dried fruit, spices soaked in an apple cider base) in an (experimental for this year) lard/butter mix sweet short crust.
The local Bodega was selling fresh rendered Lard/Manteca yesterday, and I'm going to try and recreate my grandmother's sweet lard pie crusts.

I'm feeling generous this holiday; with the neighbors I usually make pies for and the kids are making a "command performance" with the in-laws this weekend, I'll set aside a pie if a San Diego area DU'er PMs me. Or heck, if a DU'er who can make it down to San Diego next Sunday or Monday PMs me. Let me know if you want a spirited pie (a splash of rum added in the mix before it goes in the pie) or no.

Sorry Mineral Man...homemade pies don't mail very well.

Haele

[pangaia]

10. The lard will do it !!

I cook Chinese-- Sichuan, Shanghai, Hongzhou, and started using some lard along with the usual peanut oil.

WOW ! What a difference...

[Paka]

13. Sure wish there wasn't an ocean between us.

Hearing about your mince pies is making me drool. Fortunately I'm old enough I can get by with that.

[joshdawg]

24. Same here!

[MineralMan]

14. Sounds wonderful.

I'm going to pick one up at Baker's Aware on Friday. Not the same, but still good.

[burrowowl]

25. Suet?

[IronLionZion]

33. That sounds delightful

[get the red out]

2. If I were there

I would stop in and buy something from such nice people!

[MustLoveBeagles]

11. K&R

So would I. Sadly a trip overseas isn't in the budget.

[Angry Dragon]

5. I agree...... the True spirit

[irisblue]

6. Loving and kindness

a good reminder that it is not rare trait.

[longship]

8. I haven't had mince meat pie in ages.

It is absolutely wonderful. I miss it!

What a wonderful gesture by a wonderful couple.

[2naSalit]

37. That made me think of something...

growing up I recall that Mince pie was present every year when we still acted like a family. I hated pie then so I never even tried it. Many decades later, I make pies as gifts, apple or pecan with a retro-recipe crust and have become somewhat noted locally for them. I'll have to find a good mince pie and see what I've been missing all these years!

[japple]

9. What a great couple. Hoping their sweetness and goodness

spreads into their neighborhood and and beyond.

[More_Cowbell]

12. My "I was stupid" mince pie story

My aunt always had Thanksgiving at her house, and we all got really dressed up. My dad was the only one who ate mince pie, and she made one for him every year. One year when I was about 4, I was eating my favorite, blueberry pie. My mother told me to be careful because "if you get a stain on your blouse, it'll never come off." I thought she was saying that the BLOUSE would never come off (I had some hazy idea that the blueberry stain would make the blouse shrink on me, so I couldn't get it off, and they wouldn't cut it off with scissors because it was an expensive blouse). As I said: not a bright child.

So I was careful, and the next year I switched to eating mince pie with my dad. Then one day in the sixth grade, I was just doing some work in class and it suddenly struck me: she'd meant that the STAIN would never come off.

But the mince pie with my dad was a thing by then, so I kept eating it although I didn't really care for it.

[montana_hazeleyes]

18. I love your story!

It's so cute what little kids come up with when they don't understand what adults mean.

[More_Cowbell]

23. Ha, thanks for calling it "cute"

Instead of something less flattering!

[pandr32]

34. Great story

We must all have one of those.
My dad was a kidder and I loved to eat the tapioca pudding my grandmother made at least a couple times a month. He asked me why I loved to eat fish eyes so much. I didn't eat it again until my teens when I learned what those tapioca pearls really were.

[SnowCritter]

15. My father used to make mince pie filling

from his own special recipe and can it. It was fabulous!

He passed back in 1999 and never passed the recipe on to anyone. Back in the early 00's my sister made a pie from the last remaining jar of pie filling (probably circa '95 - 96'). It was the best damn mince pie I ever tasted.

[More_Cowbell]

22. My dad also passed in 1999

He's probably sharing your dad's mince pies!

[smirkymonkey]

16. What a lovely couple!

Of course, if they lived in this country, Trump would probably have them rounded up by ICE.

[Scarsdale]

28. Lovely story.

This brought tears to my eyes. The TRUE spirit of the season. I hope we can follow up on their day.

[Honeycombe8]

17. I would go BUY something from them, just for doing that! Terrific.

And good business, too. They are WORKING on Christmas, too. Hard working people.

[Glorfindel]

19. That is great...my mother didn't like mince pies, so she never made them

but her older sister, my Aunt Edith, made them every year, and I loved them! Only at Christmas, but it was really something to look forward to. My aunt died in 1998, and I haven't had mince pie since. Maybe some day!

[Scarsdale]

29. They sell them

at the grocery store. Brings back memories.

[Lithos]

20. Sweet couple

World needs more like this... less like the Trumps.

[BobTheSubgenius]

21. I do like these.

But the Xmas go-to in our family is my grandmother's Melton Mowbray Pie. Took me years to find a purveyor that made a proper one, and it was superb - exactly like hers.

Then the selfish old bastard retired.

[burrowowl]

26. Beautiful!!!!!!!

[MFM008]

27. I want that

Hug and pie.
My dad loved mince pie.

[DonCoquixote]

30. The sad fact is

Even if this couple was born in the UK, spoke better English than the average UK citizen, and even had a son that died in the armed forces, a large portion of the Brexiteers would consider them foreigners.

[Ken Burch]

38. That's the reason I made a point of describing them as "a British couple".

[shenmue]

31. I'ma cry now

[Loubee]

32. This literally made me cry--Thank you for posting.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

35. Very cool!

Speaking of mince pies, Pier One sells these:

[geardaddy]

36. Beautiful people. I want to be part of their family.

When I was living in Wales, the local church had a caroling session and had individual mince pies and tea. I'm not a huge fan of mince meat, but those pie were delicious.

My dad loved mince meat pie. Especially when it came with hard sauce.