I usually make 4 or 5 pies for the holidays using my mom's recipe, a pork and beef combination, boiled with chopped onions and mixed with most of the same spices you used, then mixed with a sleeve of crushed saltines and put in a crust. My mom and her sister used to argue every Christmas about whose pie was correct-she used potatoes, but we like it best without. And always served with a big plop of ketchup!

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