Vegetarian Green Tomato Mincemeat: Not TNT: In Place Of

[Guest guest]

, " Sandra Hilton "

<sandra.hilton wrote:

>

> I have no idea what flax seed is, Jack, having never used it, but I

> can tell you that suet is a hard (animal, usually bovine) fat which

> looks a little like rice, each of the 'grains' of fat are prevented

> from sticking to each other by a very fine dusting of what I presume

> is flour. Vegetarian suet is available and works beautifully in

> recipes. I would imagine that any hard fat could be used in place

of

> suet, I think that if you could freeze some hard fat and grate it

> (dust it with flour to prevent sticking maybe) that would be as near

> to the real thing as anything I can imagine.

>

> Suet is one ingredient in MINCEMEAT (among other things, it also

makes

> wonderful dumplings!) which is a very sweet filling for mincepies

> which also has various types of dried fruit and some form of alcohol

> in it, (my grandmother always used brandy if I remember rightly)

> which we have at Christmas time.

>

> MINCE is a totally different thing altogether, it is ground meat of

> any sort, the sort of thing that you would make hamburgers from, it

> is often called just 'minced meat', which is maybe what is causing

the

> confusion? But this is totally different from 'Mincemeat'.

>

> Sandra

>

> , " maxium62001 "

> <maxium62001@> wrote:

> >

> > I found a mincemeat recipe that Donna should love. It sounds

yummy.

> > http://etherwork.net/ejmtph/recipes/mincemeat.html#greentomato

> > On the subject of suet; couldn't flax seed be used as a

substitute?

> > Happy Holiday and blessings, Jack

> >

>

I read, somewhere, that flax seed could be used to replace fat; don't

know? It really doesn't matter. Perfectly fine mincemeat can be made

sans fat, or a little oil could be subbed. I'm trying to convince

Donna, to no avail, that mincemeat is a finer grind of a chutney,

which it is; she won't believe me. Just study some of the recipes,

and leave out the m**t. It is good stuff, though very sugar laden and

rich.

Blessings, Jack

[Guest guest]

I can't add a lot to this subject, never liked the stuff even when I did

eat meat. I do know though that flax seed oil capsules are recommended to

vegetarians for Omega 3 fatty acids. I've been hearing more and more about

flax seed oil on Good Eats too, mostly about the care of it since it's a bit

on the expensive side from what I understand. So if you could find a way to

use flax seed oil in the vegetarian mincemeat, you'd be doing your heart a

favor!

 

 

 

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> >

>

I read, somewhere, that flax seed could be used to replace fat; don't

know? It really doesn't matter. Perfectly fine mincemeat can be made

sans fat, or a little oil could be subbed. I'm trying to convince

Donna, to no avail, that mincemeat is a finer grind of a chutney,

which it is; she won't believe me. Just study some of the recipes,

and leave out the m**t. It is good stuff, though very sugar laden and

rich.

Blessings, Jack