This heartwarming story tells of a woman who remembers her late mother through a special Christmas tradition - eating one of her handmade mince pies every year on December 1st.
When my mum died we found a container of her handmade festive favourites in the freezer. I eat one every year and reminisce about past Christmas es with her.Every year on 1 December, I’ll open the freezer and know that Christmas has finally come. Hidden away in a large for the past 20 years, I have been slowly making my way through them by eating one on 1 December every year.
With their rough, thick pastry cases and delicious handmade whisky-soaked mincemeat, each pie fills me with joy and nostalgia, as I reminisce about past Christmases with my mum. In 2003, my mum passed away just days after my dad. It was just before Christmas: we’d been planning his funeral and she had a heart attack. They were buried together on 23 December. The family was devastated. I could never have predicted that I’d be an orphan by 32. My mum’s house at the time was like Santa’s grotto. The day before her death, she was up all night wrapping presents and writing cards for us all. I’d stayed with her in the days after my dad’s death, but she told me to go home as she was putting on a brave face and wanted to cry without me there. Sometimes I wonder whether she had a feeling something might happen to her and wanted to make sure everything was ready, just in case. I still have two unwrapped presents from her from that year. I think it’s a pen and a calendar, as she used to get me that every year. I haven’t opened them as I love thinking about the effort she must have put into wrapping them. I found the Tupperware of mince pies in her freezer when we were clearing the house in the new year. My mum was famous for making them, and everyone she knew got a box: the butcher, the postman, the hairdresser and all of her neighbours. We moved from Banbury to Yorkshire when I was 10, but wherever we were, each person got a dozen. Sometimes she’d bake hundreds. She also used to make ornaments for people to show her appreciation for them. She was very well love
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