Ingredients: |
Ingredients: Filling
2 tart apples, peeled and cored, cut into quarters
1/3 C firmly packed light brown sugar
1 T all purpose flour
1/2 t vanilla extract
1/2 t ground cinnamon
1 pinch ground nutmeg
Pastry
All purpose flour for rolling
2 sheets of frozen puff pastry, each 9 1/2" square, thawed. (grocery freezer)
1 large egg, beaten
2 T sugar
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Directions: |
Directions:Position two racks near center of oven with space in between them and preheat oven to 400º. Grease 2 baking sheets.
Cut the apples into small chunks and place in a bow. Add brown sugar, flour, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and stir together.
Sprinkle work surface with flour. Unfold 1 of the thawed puff pastry sheets on top of the flour. Keep the other sheet wrapped in the refrigerator.
Sprinkle some flour on the pastry. Using a rolling pin, and beginning at the center of the pastry, roll out to the far side. Then, roll from the center toward you. After every few rolls, give the pastry a quarter turn and sprinkle the top and bottom of the pastry with more of the flour so the pastry does not stick. Keep rolling and sprinkling until the pastry is a 12 1/2" square.
Using a pizza wheel or knife and with a ruler (if perfection is important) trim edges to make a 12" square. Pull away scraps.
Cut the 12" square into four equal 6" squares.
Spoon 1/3 C of the filling onto the center of each square. Spread the filling across the middle towards two opposite points.
In a small bowl, beat the egg and set aside.
Brush the beaten egg along two edges of the square with the pastry brush.
Fold one half of each square over the filling, enclosing it fully and forming a triangle. Press the edges together with the fork to seal them.
Place the four turnovers on a prepared baking sheet, spacing them two inches apart. Repeat with the remaining puff pastry sheet and filling.
Use a pastry brush to brush the tops of the turnovers with the beaten egg. Sprinkle the turnovers with the sugar.
Put one baking sheet on the upper rack in the oven and the other sheet on the lower rack in the oven and bake for ten minutes. After ten minutes, switch places for another 15 minutes, until puffed and brown.
Set on a cooling rack...... |
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