A weekend of festive cooking. Made a pan full of mincemeat, just photos of that. Two large cooking apples, some muscovado sugar, apricots, nuts, dried fruit, raisins and quite a bit of brandy, Jewelled Mincemeat on the BBC Good Food Guide site. Then Sunday was mince pie making day. Used the "unbelievably easy mince pie" recipe from BBC good food guide, but like one of the post said for that I used a little water with the pastry and rolled and cut it out, went further and was easier. I did the first batch as per the instructions but it takes ages to pat the pastry into the tin! I'm resisting eating any till I take some into work :)