Comment on Old-Fashioned Mincemeat Pie Recipe from 1798 by Lori Elliott

Lori Elliott
Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:17:01 +0000

In reply to Linda S Orris.

That's such an interesting family history that you have with mincemeat and such nice memories of your great grandparents! And three kinds of potatoes sounds like a lot of potatoes! That's funny about eating off of the knife, too, because when I was at a living history museum they were talking about how it was a common practice to eat off of the knife up until the mid 1800s when it became more common to use the fork instead. I wonder if it was a common thing to do in Ireland? And I think when I was a child I would have probably preferred cobbler to mincemeat even though I enjoy the taste of it now.