Recipe - Apple-Almond Pastries

1 1/3 cup Allpurpose flour
One half teaspoon Salt
One half cup Margarine
1 cup Apples cut or sliced up thin
3 tablespoon Sugar
2 tablespoon Almonds cut or sliced up
3 tablespoon Apricot preserves or
Peach

1. Sift the 11/3 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 45 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 One half inch. Roll out on
floured surface to 12 inch square. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. 4. Toss
cut or sliced up 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 cut or sliced up almonds. 6. Bake
in preheated 450degree oven for 1520 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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