Fruit Turnovers

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861
Source
The Book of Household Management
Time
Cook: 20 min Total: 20 min
Yield
12.0 turnovers
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (5)
Turnovers
Instructions (6)
  1. Make some puff-paste by recipe No. 1206.
  2. Roll it out to the thickness of about 1/4 inch, and cut it out in pieces of a circular form.
  3. Pile the fruit on half of the paste, sprinkle over some sugar, wet the edges and turn the paste over.
  4. Press the edges together, ornament them, and brush the turnovers over with the white of an egg.
  5. Sprinkle over sifted sugar, and bake on tins, in a brisk oven, for about 20 minutes.
  6. Instead of putting the fruit in raw, it may be boiled down with a little sugar first, and then inclosed in the crust; or jam, of any kind, may be substituted for fresh fruit.
Original Text
FRUIT TURNOVERS (suitable for Pic-Nics). 1278. INGREDIENTS.—Puff-paste No. 1206, any kind of fruit, sugar to taste. Mode.—Make some puff-paste by recipe No. 1206; roll it out to the thickness of about 1/4 inch, and cut it out in pieces of a circular form; pile the fruit on half of the paste, sprinkle over some sugar, wet the edges and turn the paste over. Press the edges together, ornament them, and brush the turnovers over with the white of an egg; sprinkle over sifted sugar, and bake on tins, in a brisk oven, for about 20 minutes. Instead of putting the fruit in raw, it may be boiled down with a little sugar first, and then inclosed in the crust; or jam, of any kind, may be substituted for fresh fruit. Time.—20 minutes. Sufficient—1/2 lb. of puff-paste will make a dozen turnovers. Seasonable at any time.
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