Fit the circles into the muffin tin or tart tins. Fill each pie with mincemeat. Roll out the remaining pie crust to the same thickness and cut out circles (or whatever shape you like) for the pie ...

According to the BBC, a mincemeat recipe in Hannah Glasse's influential 1747 cookbook, "Art of Cookery," is an early instance of meat being removed as a key ingredient from the pie filling.

Mincemeat gets its name from the finely chopped (or "minced") meat that went into early recipes ... well with mincemeat as a pastry filling. A small mincemeat pie, split open to show the gooey ...

This process made the fat usable for cooking, where it added a ton of flavor and went especially well with mincemeat as a pastry filling ... Cinnamon mincemeat pie recipe. Be careful assuming ...