Cranberry Apple Dumplings with Crimson Sauce

Name: Cranberry Apple Dumplings with Crimson Sauce
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 smalls cooking apples (each about 3 inches in diameter), peeled and cored; 1 egg, slightly beaten; 710 milliliters Gold all-purpose flour; 1 leave Fresh mint if desired; 59 milliliters orange juice or water; 2 Tbsps red cinnamon candies; 1 teaspoons salt; 237 milliliters shortening; 4 servings Additional sugar, if desired; 4 teaspoons sugar; 6 Tbsps cold water; 454 grams can whole berry cranberry sauce

Cranberry Apple Dumplings with Crimson Sauce is a dairy free side dish. One portion of this dish contains approximately 12g of protein, 54g of fat, and a total of 1171 calories. This recipe serves 4. This recipe covers 20% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour. Head to the store and pick up additional sugar, shortening, sugar, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Heat oven to 400F. Lightly grease bottom of jelly roll pan, 15 1/2x10 1/2x1 inch, or large cookie sheet with shortening. In 1-quart saucepan, heat cranberry sauce, orange juice and candies over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until mixture is hot and candies are melted; remove from heat.

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Candy

Orange Juice

Shortening

Jelly

Roll

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Baking Sheet

Sauce Pan

Oven

Frying Pan

In medium bowl, cut shortening into flour and salt, using pastry blender or crisscrossing 2 knives, until particles are size of small peas.

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Shortening

All Purpose Flour

Peas

Salt

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Blender

Bowl

Sprinkle with cold water, 1 tablespoon at a time, tossing with fork until all flour is moistened and pastry almost cleans side of bowl (1 to 2 teaspoons more water can be added if necessary).

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All Purpose Flour

Water

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Bowl

Roll pastry into rectangle, 18x16 inches.

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Roll

Cut pastry into four 8-inch squares, using pastry cutter or knife.

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Pastry Cutter

Knife

Cut leaves from remaining 2-inch piece of pastry, using small leaf-shape cutter, pastry cutter or knife.

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Pastry Cutter

Knife

Place apple on each pastry square. Spoon 1 tablespoon cranberry sauce mixture into center of each apple.

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Cranberry Sauce

Apple

Sprinkle each apple with 1 teaspoon of the sugar. Moisten corners of pastry squares. Bring 2 opposite corners of pastry up over apple; pinch to seal. Repeat with remaining corners; pinch edges of pastry to seal. Decorate with pastry leaves.

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Apple

Sugar