Published 19:56 IST, December 10th 2019

US baker creates 'abominable' Christmas tart confusing minced meat with mincemeat

US Baker creates 'abominable' Christmas tart confusing minced meat with mincemeat. Elaine Lemm posted the recipe on The Spruce Eats website which went viral.

Reported by: Tanima Ray
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A Christmas tart recipe went grossly wrong after a baker from US used minced meat in place of mincemeat in it. A post of 'abominable' recipe has gone viral on social media. Mincemeat is a mixture of chopped dried fruit, distilled spirits, and spices, brandy. Originally, mincemeat always contained meat but many modern recipes contain beef suet, though vegetable shortening is sometimes used in its place.

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Rachel's truffle fiasco

incident has reminded people of a famous episode of Jennifer Anniston's Friends. In episode, Rachel aka Jennifer messes up trifle recipe and accidentally ds minced beef and peas. Baker Elaine Lemm reportedly came pretty close to repeat a similar blunder when she posted her faulty recipe on a website called Spruce Eats. She used two medium apples, shortcrust pastry, butter, sugar... oh, and 255g of mince (of cow variety)! In post, re are step-by-step pictures showing pastry filled with beef, before being layered with sliced apples and sugar, and baked in oven. It even mentioned custard or brandy sauce, reminding people of Rachel. Take a look at post.

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Baker's mistake breaks internet

Elaine's mistake was posted by a user named Luke Bailey on twitter. Bailey's accounts have regular posts of funny incidents and memes and it seems he couldn't miss out on such a blunder. His post has received 61.5K likes and has been retweeted some 11.6K times making it viral.  A user wrote: "When things are lost in translation. Tritional mincemeat and apple tart. Umm, I think t... lol," and ar ded, "Behold magic of an American website making a British Christmas mince pie but t kwing what 'mince' is". re was a third drawing inference with Rachel writing: "It seems that people doing this recipe have done a Rachel".

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19:28 IST, December 10th 2019