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Traditional shortcrust mince pies with homemade mincemeat

Small pastry pies of mincemeat, dried fruit and spice, eaten at Christmas

Where it comes fromA British classic

Mince pies are Britain's Christmas pastry. In 1861 Henry Mayhew listed them among the foods London's street sellers cried, beside hot eels, muffins and crumpets.

Sources: Henry Mayhew, Tufts Digital Library (1861).

At Dunns Bakery

Baked in the Crouch End bakery for the Christmas weeks, a shortcrust case round its homemade mincemeat; we'd send you in November and December.

From Dunns Bakery's own menu and pages, as we read them in November 2026.

Dunns Bakery

British · family bakery · Crouch End

6 The Broadway, Crouch End, London N8 9SN

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Crouch End's family bakery since 1946, for its mince pies at Christmas.

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