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Apple Almond Pastries Recipe

Apple Almond Pastries Recipe Ingredients: wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched salt, table margarine, regular, 80% fat, composite, stick, without salt apples, raw, with skin sugars, granulated nuts, almonds apr...

Apple Almond Pastries Recipe

Ingredients:
wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched
salt, table
margarine, regular, 80% fat, composite, stick, without salt
apples, raw, with skin
sugars, granulated
nuts, almonds
apricots, dried, sulfured, uncooked

Directions:
1.
Sift the 1-1/3 c. flour with the salt into a large mixing bowl.
Cut in the solid margarine or possibly butter with pastry blender till mix is the size of small peas.
2.
Sprinkle 4-5 Tbsp.
water, a little at a time, over the flour while stirring with a fork, till mix is just moist sufficient 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 Tbsp.
of flour.
Place slices down center third of dough.
Sprinkle 2 Tbsp.
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 Tbsp.
sugar and sliced almonds.
6.
Bake in preheated 450-degree oven for 15-20 min or possibly till golden.
7.
Spread immediately with preserves.
If preferred, omit the preserves and frost with a thin glaze made of powdered sugar thinned with lowfat milk and vanilla or possibly orange extract.