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mrsbunk has just arrived home with several boxes of mince pies a month and a bit past their best before date. Mix of Lidl and Tesco in case it matters.
I quite like mince pies, but it'll be summer by the time I eat them all.
edit. 41 now. I think I'll survive but they definitely have a tinge to them.
Food banks will take them, or give to a homeless charity.
They won't be accepted by a charity.
I'm less sure about food banks.
Make an extra boozy mince pie trifle and scoff it like a piggywiggy
Best Before means f__k all. Unless they smell like they’re mouldy, or are mouldy, they’re fine.
Use By needs a bit more attention
This.
they will be fine for months.. assuming they are in plastic
worst case is the pastry would be a little stale
Feed to the foxes over several days.
Sadly not suitable for foodbanks round here Bunnyhop - They came from the foodbank mrsbunk helps at.
I like the idea of feeding the local wildlife but I worry I'm just laying traps for thecatbunk.
Freezing them and shooting them wins so far. But I'll probably just eat them.
I'd be careful about feeding them to foxes. Raisins are meant to be poisonous/toxic to dogs, so may also well be for foxes?
unless it’s mouldy or smells mouldy, it’s probably fine
Until you bite into it, start chewing and then find out that the mould starts growing on the inside of the pastry.
Don't ask how I know. 😋😱🤮
Make an extra boozy mince pie trifle and scoff it like a piggywiggy
A man after my own heart.
Warm them in the oven a little before eating to crisp the pastry back up would be my suggestion.
The only downside I can see to your predicament is the potential to need a larger pair of trousers in a week or so.
Also they freeze easily if you feel the need to spread the rate of consumption.
I’d be careful about feeding them to foxes. Raisins are meant to be poisonous/toxic to dogs, so may also well be for foxes?
Yeah both foxes and dogs are canids.
I did a quick search and it seems foxes are less sensitive to grape products than dogs, but still, not a good idea, especially a pile of 40 odd mince pies!
go for a walk around town & hand them out to homeless people.
Same as an in date mince pie.
Bin.
Leave one out on the side and see how long they actually take to go off.
Freeze the rest, then microwave as required with topping of choice.
Pastry crusts for the birds
Hand them out to cockney types. I believe they like them as I have heard them talking about mince pies all year long
If I still worked in an office I'd take them to work.
The mincemeat filling by design is preserved pretty much indefinitely, you can safely eat them until and unless you can see or taste some evidence of mould on the pastry.
I can’t remember ever seeing one go off but that may party be due to their short lifespan in my household.
Brandy butter for dipping, should hide any tinge.
Brandy butter for dipping, should hide any tinge.
...of pleasure you might have been anticipating
I was about to say the exact same thing as rakas up there^^.
I honestly thought I might be the only weirdo who did this.
Not sure bunch is the collective noun for custard.
Left field thought, you can make banana bread beer so why not mince pie beer?
Left field thought, you can make banana bread beer so why not mince pie beer?
Could make an interesting drink, It's already got fruit and sugar, a wine or spirit?
Gonna do the icecream thing, sounds amazing
Your question took me back around 20 years to when I used to think this was funny. <br /><br />
Thankfully the internet (and I) have changed a bit! <br /><br />
A friend who is also a professional brewer made an 13% ABV mince pie imperial stout last year. It was not a bad drop.
Leave them in gin/rum/vodka for a week, or until something interesting happens!
In a similar vein to the ice cream recipe, make a cheese cake with them. Remove fruit from case, use the pastry as the base (perhaps add in some digestives for crunch) and blend the mincemeat with the cheesecake mix.
Or just gorge the lot in one sitting 🙂
...do nothing besides contemplating life, the universe, everything to which you now have the ultimate answer.
Above all do not eat one. That would throw the cosmos terminally out of kilter which we'd experience here with wars breaking out across the globe, successive storms blowing wheelybins into cars, Trump returning to the whitehouse, that sort of thing.
Please tell me you haven't eaten one?
Leave some vanilla ice cream out to soften.<br />Chop mince pies up and stir into the ice cream. Re-freeze and enjoy at will. Lovely stuff.
@rakas mrsbunk & I thank you. As does the local tailor who can’t keep up.
For future reference, you can easily squeeze 12 pies into a 2 litre tub of icecream, turns out they are mostly air (& hard to shift calories)
@johnx2 oops 😬