Gordon Ramsay cooking with his son Jack
Here are 2 videos of Gordon cooking with his son Jack. I know it’s a bit late to be posting Christmas cooking videos, but I wanted to share these anyway. First up is Gordon preparing a bird for the oven, and in the second video Gordon and Jack make some mince pies.
Recipe for mince pies is available under “read more”.
Mince Pies (Makes 12)
Ingredients
For the shortcrust pastry
- 200g soft flour
- pinch of salt
- 100g butter
- 2-3 tablespoons of water
For the mince pies
- 540g mincemeat (the best quality you can get)
- Orange zest from a large orange
- Couple of tablespoons of Brandy
- Pinch of cinnamon
- 50ml milk
- 1 egg, beaten
- 50g caster sugar
- Vegetable oil or butter wrapper for greasing tin
For the shortcrust pastry
1. Make sure your butter’s at room temperature to make it easier to work with.
2. Sieve the flour and salt into a large mixing bowl. Cut the butter into small cubes and add to the flour.
3. Using your fingertips, rub the fat into the flour, lifting the mixture up and dropping it back into the bowl - you want to keep the mixture light and airy. Keep going until all the fat is mixed with the flour and has reached a texture that resembles fine breadcrumbs.
4. Sprinkle a little cold water into the bowl and mix through with a knife. Use your fingers to bring the pastry together: it’s ready when and the sides of the bowl are clean and it’s formed a solid ball. You shouldn’t need to add much more than a tablespoon of water so be careful not to overdo it.
5.Cover the bowl with cling film and leave the pastry to rest in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
For the mince pies
1. Heat the oven to 220C/400F/Gas 6.
2. Mix your jar of mincemeat together with the orange zest, brandy and cinnamon.
3. Lightly grease your patty tins with a small amount of vegetable oil, or any butter paper you may have.
4. Flour your work surface and roll out the pastry as thinly as possible. Cut out approximately 12 rounds with a pastry cutter (most pastry cutters have two sides, one with a greater diameter than the other, use the larger side for the base and the smaller for the lids) and place them in the base of your patty-tins.
5. Prick all the pie bases with a fork to stop them rising. Fill each case with about 3 teaspoons of the mincemeat mix - don’t overfill your cases or the mixture will leak through the pastry when cooking.
6. Brush the pie edges with a little milk. Stamp out another 12 rounds, using the larger end of your cutter, for the lids and place over the mincemeat mix.
7. Pinch the pie edges together to seal. Brush over with egg wash and pierce the tops with a fork. Bake in the oven for approx 20 minutes until golden brown.
8. Remove from the oven and allow to rest for 1 minute before placing on a wire rack to cool.
9. Serve warm with a light sifting of icing sugar on top.
January 5th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Thanks for posting. I was wondering what show this was from..
January 6th, 2008 at 8:30 am
thank you for posting! Gordon is a God!
January 8th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Excellent! I’m really looking forward to more F-Word.
Thanks!!
January 8th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
I’m guessing the new F-word series will air around summertime
January 12th, 2008 at 6:28 am
Who was the American guy he was talking about at the end? The only person in cooking who swears more than Gordon Ramsay *has* to be A. Bourdain.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Anthony Bourdain, he wrote Kitchen Confidential, Nasty Bits, A Cooks Tour. Great chef and author, he has a restaurant in NY called Les Halles.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Oh sorry I read your post wrong. I totally agree it’s Anthony.
January 15th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
I just discover this fantastic site… thanks SO much for sharing and even taking the time to post recipes and comments!! it’s great for us foodlovers!
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:47 am
Thanks heaps for the kool recipes and stuff. They are great! It just really annoys me how much he swears! Is it possible for a human being to swear more?