Kate Billington

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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson · Coffee, Cats & Conversation ☕️ Kate Billington’s 900-Day Streak in Taiwan [991] · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

And then you let it soak for a long time.

Over a year, actually, it can keep because there's nothing in it that's going to go off.

And then you make a nice sweet pastry and you make little pies and you put the filling, the mincemeat, so-called mincemeat, even though there's no meat inside it.

You put that inside the pies and you put a nice little sweet pastry on top and then you put them in the oven to bake.

So that's mince pies.

Traditional Christmas.

Yes, I didn't say that.

So British mince pies, as I've said, contain things like raisins, apple, orange peel, things like that, which are the kind of dried fruits and sometimes fresh fruit like apple that you could find in the UK at Christmas time.

So then I decided to make a Taiwanese version using Taiwanese dried fruits.

So which are really big here.

Drying fruit is a good way to preserve it, I guess.

So that's one of the reasons why it's popular here in Taiwan, where it's very humid.

So food goes off quite quickly.

So I went and found lots of Taiwanese dried fruit.

And I chopped it all up and mixed it all together, still with spices and some sugar and some alcohol.

And that's Taiwanese mincemeat.

So instead of the British ingredients, it's got mango and pineapple and red guava and pomelo, which is a type of citrus.

And what else?

Starfruit.

I can't remember what else now.

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