Name: Dry Fruit And Nut Mince Pie
Ingredients: 2 Eggs; (for the egg wash),; ; beaten; Icing sugar for dusting; ***FOR THE SHORTCRUST PASTRY OR SWEET; ; PASTE***; 200 g Unsalted butter; 100 g Castor sugar; 3 Eggs; refrigerated; 400 g Flour; sieved; 150 g Black currants; 150 g Raisins; 150 g Orange peel; chopped; 75 g Prunes or dried apricots; destoned and; ; chopped; 110 g Almonds; sliced; 60 g Pine nuts; (chilgoza); 1 Lemon; zest of; 75 ml Orange juice; 1/4 ts Cinnamon powder; (1 g); 1 1 gram clove powder; 1/4 ts Nutmeg powder; (1 g); 3 tb Golden syrup; (45 ml)

[Fear] is Satan’s weapon held in reserve. When alluring temptations fail, he opens his quiver and shoots these arrows to set the soul on fire, if not with sin then with terror. When he cannot carry a soul laughing to hell through the deception of pleasurable temptations, he will try to make him go mourning to heaven by this amazing attack. It is a sure sign that Satan is losing. The arrows he shot at Job were of this kind. When God let the devil practice his skill, why did Satan not tempt Job with some golden apple of profit or pleasure or some other enticement? Surely the high testimony God gave about Job discouraged him from these methods. Satan had no tactic left but this.

William Gurnall

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Grains		Femina, Pies & past, Femina1	1	servings

INGREDIENTS

2		Eggs; (for the egg wash),
		; beaten
		Icing sugar for dusting
		***FOR THE SHORTCRUST PASTRY OR SWEET
		; PASTE***
200	g	Unsalted butter
100	g	Castor sugar
3		Eggs; refrigerated
400	g	Flour; sieved
150	g	Black currants
150	g	Raisins
150	g	Orange peel; chopped
75	g	Prunes or dried apricots; destoned and
		; chopped
110	g	Almonds; sliced
60	g	Pine nuts; (chilgoza)
1		Lemon; zest of
75	ml	Orange juice
1/4	ts	Cinnamon powder; (1 g)
1		1 gram clove powder
1/4	ts	Nutmeg powder; (1 g)
3	tb	Golden syrup; (45 ml)

INSTRUCTIONS

FOR THE FILLING
To prepare the sweet paste: Whisk butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs
and whisk until fully incorporated. Fold in the flour and refrigerate for
10 minutes. Roll out into a 1/4 cm. thick rectangular shape, cut 32
roundels. Mix all the filling ingredients and keep aside for two hours.
Divide into 16 equal portions.
To prepare the moulds: Line moulds with the sweet paste, discarding any
overlaps. Spread a portion of the filling in each, cover with the remaining
sweet paste roundels. Brush with the beaten egg Bake in a pre-heated oven
at 250 C for 30 minutes. Dust with icing sugar. Serve as dessert with
brandy cream.
Converted by MC_Buster.
NOTES : Makes 16 pies
Converted by MM_Buster v2.0l.

A Message from our Provider:

“There is more to Jesus than anyone has so far discovered”

But there are some who say, “It is hard for God to choose some and leave others.” Now, I will ask you one question. Is there any of you here this morning who wishes to be holy, who wishes to be regenerate, to leave off sin and walk in holiness? “Yes, there is,” says someone, “I do.” Then God has elected you. But another says, “No; I don’t want to be holy; I don’t want to give up my lusts and my vices.” Why should you grumble, then, that God has not elected you to it? For if you were elected you would not like it, according to your own confession. If God this morning had chosen you to holiness, you say you would not care for it. Do you not acknowledge that you prefer drunkenness to sobriety, dishonesty to honesty? You love this world’s pleasures better than religion; then why should you grumble that God has not chosen you to religion? If you love religion, He has chosen you to it. If you desire it, He has chosen you to it. If you do not, what right have you to say that God ought to have given you what you do not wish for?

C.H. Spurgeon

God did not demand that we first demonstrate our allegiance to Him before Christ would agree to die in our place. To demand that we somehow show ourselves deserving of forgiveness in order to regain our status as His children would have been futile. What can ungodly, rebellious sinners offer God that would move the holy Creator of the universe to sacrifice His only Son on their behalf? So God acted first, motivated solely by his own sovereign love, to grant mercy to His people as the ultimate expression of His grace (Ex. 33:19; Isa. 63:7; Rom. 9:15-18; Eph. 2:4; Titus 3:5; 1 Pet. 1:3). Christ died for us because the Father and the Son loved the unlovable.

Scott Hafemann