Mincemeat

Mincemeat is a combination of dried fruits including apricots, pears, apples, raisins, candied fruit, nuts, cherries, spices and beef suet used for making mincemeat pies and other tarts and puddings.  In U.K. the term "mince" refers to something cut up in very tiny pieces (minced).  For example, beef mince is the U.K. term for ground beef.

Mincemeat can be purchased in jars and is used as a pie filling.  It can be found in most well-stocked grocery stores.  Of course you can also find it online at Amazon.com: Mincemeat.

If you don't have mincemeat then you could substitute:

• Make your own mincemeat.  See this recipe for Quick Mincemeat by David Lebovitz.
• OR - Select a different pie filling such as pecan.