I am excited and loving it though. My grandma's sister is helping me take care of her. This is a huge help, but it is also a huge stress because her sister isn't as able to care for her as I had hoped. My life is a whirlwind right now.
This week, I did make the apple turnovers. The dough gave me fits. I don't know what I did but it was a big crumbly mess. Well, I do know one thing I did, not cut the butter fine enough. I was afraid of overworking it I guess. But when it came to rolling it out, I may have overworked it a bit as I tortured it (and myself) with a marble rolling pin. I hated working with this dough. When the option came in the recipe to gather the scraps to re-chill and re-roll to make more, I quickly and emphatically gathered the scraps and threw them in the trash.
All in all though, I guess it was kind of like childbirth; the pain was forgotten once I had that delicious little turnover. I think I undercooked mine a bit (unlike childbirth with my late, 10 and 11 lb. babies). They turned out tasting better than I thought they would after fighting with the dough.
Thanks to Julie of Someone's in the Kitchen for picking this recipe which can be found on pages 317 and 317 of Baking, From My Home to Yours, by Dorie Greenspan.
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You know, I was going to throw the extra dough away but then, since I had extra apple filling, I decided that I would put all the extra filling in a pie plate. Then I shaped the extra dough into loosely formed circles with my fingers and made a patchwork dough on the top of the apples. I baked for 20 minutes. It was really good! (And didn't hurt my arms!)
Congrats on the "regular" job. I think it's wonderful.
I still need to make these apple turnovers. Maybe we could take the kids to pick apples soon and make them?
Love,
J
So sorry this one was an effort. But I'm glad you enjoyed the finished product! Thanks for baking with me.
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