But they are going so well, do I have to?
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A lot of Pie Win ITT tonight - a few of you have saved Xmas from the Grinch of GreaseânâGrind - HUZZAH!
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Looks like you need a top up 
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I was regaled last night with tales of Christmas trips to the vets after dogs had eaten mince pies left out for Santa.
Luckily no self respecting meat man would leave a mince pie unsupervised like that.
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I throw mince pies at my cat and yell âBegone!â 
So, very late in the day, but is this 2024âs worst home-made pie ?
This ^. Except freezer. Iâve no idea how long it might have been in there. At least this time last year. Raw, the stuff had a bad âfeelâ to it and some sort of crust seemed to have formed. Anyway, waste not, want not. I kneaded it into a fairly homogeneous state. There was just enough to make four pies alongside eight of this yearâs in my 12-pie tin. This yearâs were fine. Of the ones made with the prehistoric pastry two welded themselves so resolutely into the tray that I had to dig them out in fragments using a teaspoon. I added ice-cream and ended up with some sort of awful ⊠well ⊠patĂ©-like substance. I ate it though.
The two that came out had oozed. The pastry was discoloured and flat and biscuity. I ate one of those last night. The pics show the remaining one. It took a serrated veg knife to saw it in half.
Anyone got anything badder ?
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Fol2âs this year werenât particularly photogenic, but they tasted great. Mincemeat has been maturing for 14 months. (The mincemeat was not cooked beforehand, like Paul @pmac 's, so you can see the white beef suet in the uncooked pies)
Wasnât going to post pics on this thread because piestapo reasons, but since you askedâŠ
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Iâm doing one more batch of proper pies for New Year.
Didnât photograph my first batch as I went rogue with the presentation. Did mini tarts with no topping. Wanted to recreate that chewy caramelized goodness that leaks out, but on a larger scale. They were OK; exposed surface turned chewy innards stayed moist, but they felt off.
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Moist
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Unforgivable. Have a word with yourself.
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He may have Peninsula ancestry⊠My suspicions are arousedâŠ
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How are minds supposed to be opened if you donât even share your antics?!
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Minds yes.
Pies no.
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âŠâŠenjoying the confessions.
Graemeâs cement solution in particular⊠A+
USURA - Open Your Pie.
Fractals, the pie is just the mind in a different form. Open it and enter another worldâŠ
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Just done the last mince pie.
Please would you give me space to grieve and go through this process for the next 11 months
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As the year draws to a close I was hoping to thank everyone for making the pie thread such a blast this year - itâs been a laugh⊠my wife just got home and made me close my eyes as she led me to the kitchen - surprise she saidâŠ.
Iâm speechless - fuck that Iâm fucking apoplectic.
Fuck this thread, these pies, and 2024
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Hahaha, sheâs trolling you good and proper there!
Presumably they must have been selling them off cheap?
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85p by the look of it
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