Adapted from Traditional Christmas Cooking by Penny Bazaar 
[notes by Kate S in square brackets]


Ingredients:
450g currants
450g sultanas
450g seedless raisins
[recipe specifies these currants, sultanas and raisins to be chopped, I've
always been too lazy to and it never seems to have been a problem]
450g cut mixed peel
100g blanched almonds, finely chopped [or the chopped ones in packets -
blanching almonds is faff]
450g cooking apples, peeled, cored, and coarsely grated
450g dark soft brown sugar
225g shredded suet, chopped [I usually use vegetarian suet, and don't
remember ever chopping it. The book does have a separate recipe for
vegetarian mincemeat which has all sorts of different stuff in it, but
using vegetarian suet has never been a problem for me]
1 tsp ground or grated nutmeg
1 tsp mixed spice
1 tsp ground cinnamon
grated rind of two lemons
juice of one lemon
2-4 tbsp of brandy

Preparation:
1 - Put the currants, sultanas, raisins, mixed peel and almonds into a
large mixing bowl. Add the apple, sugar, suet, spices and lemon rind and
juice. Stir thoroughly.
2 - Cover the bowl with cling film and leave to stand for two days.
3 - Stir the mincemeat again very thoroughly, draining off any excess
liquid [I've never had to do this, and what's 'excess' liquid, anyway?].
Stir in the  brandy [I err on the generous side here].  Pack the mincemeat
into sterilized jars [3kg of mincemeat is a -lot- of jam-jars], cover as
for jam, label and store in a cool dry place for at least two weeks to
allow the flavours to develop [plenty of time still before Christmas, then
:)].

[Extra notes:
This recipe doesn't cook the mincemeat at all. Other recipes I've read,
particularly Delia Smith's, go through a cooking process allegedly to stop
the apple fermenting in the jars. I=B9ve made it uncooked about three or
four times so far, and it's never happened to me, but then that might be
because I'm generous with the Brandy :)
It is a lovely, fruity, appley mincemeat and well worth the trouble... I
just wish I had some jam jars this year...]