{"id":3943,"date":"2012-12-18T06:19:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T06:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2013-12-21T09:14:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T09:14:46","slug":"mint-pies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/mint-pies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mint Pies&#8230; (Traditional English Mince Pies)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Look what we made with the &#8220;treasure&#8221; we found in the rather compact &#8220;foreign muck&#8221; section of the supermarket!\u00a0\u00a0 Considering I didn&#8217;t actually get anything on the day itself, this could well have been my present from Saint Nicholas &#8211; I just had to search for it: &#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/mint-pies\/img_8080\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3944\"><img data-attachment-id=\"3944\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/mint-pies\/img_8080\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_8080.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"700,525\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G11&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1355657390&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;7.407&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_8080\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_8080-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_8080.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3944 pp_post_image\" alt=\"IMG_8080\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_8080.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_8080.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_8080-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yes, yes, I know you can make your own mincemeat, but somehow the decent jarred stuff is always my favourite when it comes to mince pies.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have had to explain a couple of things about them on numerous occasions recently (thanks mostly to the International Food Fair we had at school) &#8211;\u00a0 a) they are not actually called mint pies, and b) that they don&#8217;t usually tend to contain any meat (well at least not these days anyway) which is hardly a surprising assumption given the name I guess&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By far my favourite English Christmas Food misunderstanding actually happened at the weekend, and came from some good Danish friends.\u00a0 We had arranged a Christmas gathering sharing seasonal food from our home countries&#8230; 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