Baker, Margaret (1992), Discovering Christmas Customs and Folklore (third ed.), Osprey Publishing, ISBN 0-7478-0175-4

Butler, Samuel; Johnson, Samuel (1807), Poetical Works: With the life of the author, vol. 1–2, Printed for Cadwell and Davies, etc and Samuel Bagster Hirst, Christopher (4 December 2011), "Sweet Delight: A Brief History of the Mince Pie", independent.co.uk, The Independent , retrieved 7 December 2011 Grubstreet Journal, Dec. 27. No. 209. On Christmas Pye", The Gentleman's Magazine, hosted at bodley.ox.ac.uk, pp. 652–653, December 1733 , retrieved 24 November 2010 We are able to deliver to schools, please ensure you select an appropriate delivery time slot that accommodates the schools opening times. We currently are unable to deliver to hospitals. Although the modern recipe is no longer the same list of 13 ingredients once used (representative of Christ and his 12 Apostles according to author Margaret Baker), [19] the mince pie remains a popular Christmas treat. Bakers Greggs reported sales of 7.5 million mince pies during Christmas 2011. [20] The popular claim that the consumption of mince pies on Christmas Day is illegal is an urban myth. [21] New England edit

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a b Crump, William D. (2013). The Christmas Encyclopedia, 3d ed. McFarland. p. 120. ISBN 9781476605739. It was fashionable at Christmastime to bake a mince pie in the form of a manger topped with an image of the Christ Child fashioned from dough, for the spices and sweetmeats were held as symbols of the Magi's gifts. Markham, Gervase; Best, Michael R. (1994), Michael R. Best (ed.), The English Housewife, McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP, ISBN 0-7735-1103-2

Stavely, Keith W. F.; Fitzgerald, Kathleen (2004), America's founding food: the story of New England cooking, UNC Press Books, ISBN 0-8078-2894-7Brand, John (1849), Observations on the popular antiquities of Great Britain, Bohn, ISBN 9787270007267 Ayto, John (1990), The Glutton's Glossary: a Dictionary of Food and Drink Terms, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-02647-4