Quaker Mince Meat for Pies (1954)

• 2 lbs beef
• 4 lbs apples
• 2 lbs raisins
• 1 lb currants
• 1/4 lb citron
• 1 1/2 lbs candied lemon peel
• 1 lb beef suet
• 2 lbs sugar
• 1 pint molasses
• 1 pint vinegar
• 3 pints water
• 2 lemons, juice and rind
• 2 oranges, juice and rind
• 1 nutmeg, grated
• 1/4 oz cloves
• 1/2 oz cinnamon
• 1 tbspn salt

Cook meat, chop fine.  Chop apples, chip 1 pound raisins, leaving 1 pound whole.  Mix all ingredients and let stand over night.  

Cook until fruit is done.  Seal while hot. Improves with age.  This recipe is an old one, and is said to have been used by the Curtis family of Virginia.

(Origin - "The Quaker Cook Book" by the Women's Auxiliary of the High Point Friends Meeting of HIgh Point, North Carolina, 1954.)

Another Quaker Recipe

Quaker Pear Relish (1954)