Recipe - Mincemeat Pie - Shape

Nonstick cooking spray
5 Sheets phyllo dough
18 ounce Mincemeat 2 cups
2/3 cup Walnuts chopped
2 lg Apples cored and minced
1/3 cup Brown sugar
1 teaspoon Rum extract

Preheat oven to 325F. Spray a 9inch pie plate with cooking spray.

To make the top pie crust, spray 2 sheets of phyllo dough with nonstick
cooking spray; stack sheets and cut the stack in half to make 4 sheets.
Stack the 4 sheets and place a pieplate on top to score a circle the size
of the bottom of the plate; trim off excess dough. Use decorative cookie
cutter to cut out a stencil in the center. Set top crust aside and cover
with a damp towel (always do this when working with phyllo dough).

To make the bottom crust, stack the remaining 3 sheets, cut stack to make 6
sheets. Lay one sheet on the pie plate and spray with cooking spray.
Repeat with remaining sheets layering clockwise to cover entire pie plate.
Trim off excess dough. Bake 810 min or til lightly golden. Let cool for 5
min.

Filling: Combine mincemeat, walnuts, apples, brown sugar and rum extract in
a saucepan. Bring to a simmer; cover. Cook 10 min or until apples are
tender, stirring occasionally. Pour filling into prepared bottom crust and
cover with prepared top crust. Bake at 350F for 1015min or until golden.

Recipe By : Shape Nov 1994

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini