Apple-Almond Pastries

Title:
Apple-Almond Pastries

Yield:
6 Servings

Categories:
Pastry




Ingredients:





 1 1/3 c  All-purpose flour


   1/2 ts Salt


   1/2 c  Margarine


     1 c  Apples -- sliced thin


     3 tb Sugar


     2 tb Almonds -- sliced


     3 tb Apricot preserves -- or


          Peach






 1. Sift the 1-1/3 cup flour with the salt into a large mixing bowl. Cut in


 the solid margarine or butter with pastry blender until mixture is the size


 of small peas. 2. Sprinkle 4-5 tablespoons water, a little at a time, over


 the flour while stirring with a fork, until mixture is just moist enough to


 hold together. 3. Form into a square and flatten to 1/2 inch. Roll out on


 floured surface to 12 inch square. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. 4. Toss


 sliced apples with 1 tablespoon of flour. Place slices down center third of


 dough. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of sugar over apples. 5. Fold up about 1/2


 inch at each end. Fold sides over apples, leaving an inch of apples showing


 down center. Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon sugar and sliced almonds. 6. Bake


 in preheated 450-degree oven for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. 7.


 Spread immediately with preserves. If preferred, omit the preserves and


 frost with a thin glaze made of powdered sugar thinned with milk and


 vanilla or orange extract.


 


 Recipe By     : Jo Anne Merrill


 


 From: Ladies Home Journal- August 1991


 


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