When my mother Viola Hester first married and started housekeeping with my father Howard "Bill" Cokonougher in 1946 in Ross County, Ohio, she already knew how to cook. Just like every other cook though, she was always on the look for new recipes. Some of those new recipes inevitably came from her mother-in-law, Amelia I. "Miller" Cokonougher. This recipe for Mince Meat Pie Filling was one of them. From the very informal look of the recipe, my grandmother Amelia must have committed the recipe to memory rather than writing it down, and then recited it to my mother Viola for her to write it down. I remember that my grandmother always had Mincemeat Pie on the table at the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day dinners at her house. Mmmmm good!
