Hi Everyone, All around the world we can find food – ingredients and prepared dishes – that has travelled. At times they are so entrenched in our cuisines that one can forget their origins of influence. The current Mince Pie is one of those foods that has travelled and transformed. We in the Caribbean tend to think of the mince pie as the British Mince Pie, however, its origins seem to be in the Middle East. It used to be known as the Mutton Pie, Shrid Pie and Christmas Pie and arrived in Britain when 13th century soldiers and others returned from crusades in the Middle East.
So travelling from the Middle East to Britain, the original dish underwent changes that became the