Recipe - Potatoes In Blankets

DOUGH
2 One half cup Flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Salt
2 Eggs
2/3 cup Vegetable oil
2 tablespoon Cold water

FILLING
1 cup Chopped onion
6 tablespoon Butter or margarine
2 cup Mashed potatoes
2 Eggs
1 teaspoon Salt
One half teaspoon Ground nutmeg
One fourth Pepper
2 tablespoon Milk

Sift flour, baking powder & salt into a large bowl. Make a well in the
flour mixture. Add eggs, oil & water. Mix. Gather dough into a ball & roll
out on a lightlyfloured surface to 1/8inch thickness. Cut into 3inch
circles with a cookie cutter. Filling: Combine onion, butter, potatoes
(instant mashed potatoes work fine), 1 egg, salt, nutmeg & pepper until
well blended. Preheat oven to 375. Place a tablespoon of filling on half
the pastry circles. Place remaining circles on top, pressing edges
together. Combine remaining egg & milk. Brush tops of circles with eggmilk
mixture, place pastries on greased baking sheet & bake for 35 minutes.
Makes about 20 pastries.

MRS. GENE CROWLEY

From Simply Southern, the Desoto School Mothers' Assn, HelenaWest
Helena, AR 72390. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.