Apple Dumpling
Ingredients
1 pastry for 2-crust pie
6 apples [peeled & cored]
FOR THE SYRUP
1 cup granulated white sugar
2 cup water
3 tbsp butter (softened)
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
FOR THE FILLING
1/2 cup granulated white sugar
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp nutmeg
2 tbsp butter (softened)
1 vanilla ice cream
Preparation
Pre-heat oven to 450o 1) Roll pastry slightly less than 1/8" thick.
Cut into seven inch squares. 2) Bring syrup ingredients to boil. Boil
3 min. Put apple on center of each pastry square. Fill with mixture
of sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg. 3) Dot each with teaspoon of butter.
Bring points of pastry up over apple and overlap. Place in a baking
pan separated slightly and pour one cup of the hot syrup mixture
around dumplings. Bake at 425o for 45 min. Just before serving pour
rest of warm syrup over dumplings and serve with the ice cream.
Variation: Peach Dumplings: use 3 large peaches, peeled and pitted (in
place of apples)
Put peach half on center of each square and proceed as for apple
dumplings above.
Servings: 6
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