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Old-Fashioned Apple Dumplings
Baking heightens the flavor of many fruits and gives them a pleasing mellow texture. Best served warm, with half-and-half or light cream, or ice cream, if you like
Serves 6
2 1/2 cups	all-purpose flour
1 tsp	salt
8 tbsp	light brown sugar
1 cup	shortening
1/2 cup	diced mixed fruit
2 tbsp	butter
1 1/2 tsp	ground cinnamon
6	small Golden delicious apples (6 oz each)
1	large egg, beaten
6	whole cloves

-	In large bowl, mix flour, salt, and 2 tbsp brown sugar
-	With pastry blender or two knives used scissor fashion, cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
-	Stir in 5 - 6 tbsp cold water until dough holds together, set aside.
-	In small bowl, mix dried fruit, butter, 4 tbsp brown sugar, and 1 tsp cinnamon.

-	Peel apples.
-	With melon baller, remove cores but do not go all the way through to bottom.
-	Press dried fruit mixture into cavities.
-	Preheat oven to 400 F.
-	Grease 15"x 10" jelly roll pan.

-	Reserve 1/3 cup dough.
-	On floured surface, with rolling pin, roll out remaining dough, using a ruler to help push and shape dough into 21" x 14" rectangle.
-	Cut dough into 6 - 7" squares.

-	On waxed paper, mix remaining 2 tbsp brown sugar and 1/2 tsp cinnamon.
-	Roll an apple in sugar mixture.
-	Center apple on a dough square; brush edges of dough with some beaten egg.

-	Bring dough up over top of apple.
-	Press to shape; seal edges.
-	Place dumpling in jelly roll pan.
-	Repeat with remaining apples, sugar mixture, and dough squares, and more beaten egg, to make 6 dumplings in all.

-	Roll reserved dough 1/4" thick.
-	Using knife, cut out as many leaves as possible; reroll scraps and cut out more leaves.
-	Score leaves with back of knife to make veins.
-	Brush dumplings with egg.
-	Press in cloves for stems.

-	Bake dumplings 35 - 40 minutes, until pastry is golden and apples are tender when pierced with knife.

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