MINCEMEAT

  • 15 cups spy apples (about 8 #)

  • Chuck shoulder blade roast (about 5 #)

  • 4 # raisins

  • 2# currants

  • 3 quarts of left over fruit juices or cider

  • 1 jar currant jelly

  • 2 ½ # brown sugar

  • 1 T. + 1 t. salt

  • ¾ cup vinegar

  • 1 quart water

  • 2 soup spoons white sugar

  • 3 soup spoons cinnamon

Boil beef and remove meat from bones.  Should have 3 cups of chopped apples to every one cup of shredded cooked meat.  Add meat to remaining ingredients.  Pretty well cover mixture with liquid.  Simmerfor 2 hours.  Cut meat from bones and shred in sauce