mince pies
 

Hello and good morning to all.

Does anyone know where I could find mince pies (offline - in a physical shop) in Emilia-Romagna... Piacenza/Parma/Reggio/Modena/Bologna? Or even just mincemeat filling?
I remember "Scaramagli's" in Bologna used to stock them at Christmas time along with Christmas Pudding... years ago.... but then they got turned into a Carrefour Express... and out went the mincepies.

Or even somewhere in Milan? Am willing to travel :-)

Desperation led me to consult youtube with ideas of making my own pies, and last night I found myself looking at mincemeat recipes. Understandably the calorie content was enough to turn said videos into bite sized horror flicks. But hey-ho Christmas comes once in a year. Anyway... it seemed as if the mincemeat improves through a short ageing process. A luxury which I don't have seeing as it's several days until Christmas...

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

I wanted to avoid online shopping as I just really wanted a couple of boxes of pies, and I'm sure the online browsing would lead me into an 'uncontrollable' Christmas calorie temptation, which I'm highly keen to avoid :-)

Re: mince pies
 

Does anyone know where I could find mince pies (offline - in a physical shop) in Emilia-Romagna... Piacenza/Parma/Reggio/Modena/Bologna? Or even just mincemeat filling?

HI
Nowhere in Parma and I've never seen them in Milan , let me know ifyou find them !

ypu might try https://www.richmonds.it/ - they have them online and are in Viareggio / Luca and if you fancy cheeses : https://www.iltagliere.it/cheeses_english.html in padova

Re: mince pies
 

Cavallucci aren't quite thee same as mince pies, but they're similar and easy to find.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavallucci

This being Italy, there are regional variations. Here's the Siena version -


Lots of shops make their own and sell them. I don't know anything about calories.

Re: mince pies
 

Thank you HADENOUGHPIZZA and Sancho.

I looked at Richmonds, seems interesting! Didn't fine them in Parma, was hoping to find them in shop in Oltretorrente... which seemed to have plenty of interesting things but failed on the mince pies. Have scouted 'conoscenti' none seem to have any idea where in ER (emilia side) Though did get a mail from a UK sales agent saying they stocked the mincemeat in a shop in Rimini :)
Sure it is still EmiliaRomagna but it is FAR...
Was hoping that on some wild card Lidl might stock the, but checked there but nothing.

Sancho, the Cavallucci di Siena do look nice and will defo try to get my hands on them sooner or later!!

It's odd how so many Christmas Italian deserts and sweet things are similar to UK stuff.
Look at Panforte (which isn't really Christmas though..) and Spongata all with the rich dried fruity filling... all so similar to Christmas Cake, pudding and the mincepies.

Does anyone make their own mincemeat filling? Or Italian Christmas equivalent?