A bowl of sweet mincemeat pie filling - Rimma Bondarenko/Shutterstock For better or worse, the mincemeat pies of today are vastly different from those of Christmas past. The key distinction is ...
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.