Recipe of the Week: Toasty Turnovers

If you are reading this from pretty much any of the 50 United States, chances are you have recently been/will soon be/are currently cursing your local weather forecaster... and doing so through chattering teeth, shaking a wooly-mittened fist.  You know what you deserve? Some warm delicious, soul-hugging comfort food! With this week's receipe, we think we've found the culinary equivalent of being wrapped up in granny's handmade afghan in front of a roaring fire with a trusty dog curled at your feet. Now if you could just find someone to make it for you while your fingers thaw out from shoveling...

Toasty Apple & Blueberry Turnovers

You need:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1/2 cup butter chilled and diced
• 3/4 cup milk
• 6 apples, peeled and cored
• 1 cup blueberries
• 1/4 cup maple syrup
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon dried orange peel

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F
2. Grease 7x11 inch baking dish
3. In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt and brown sugar
4. Cut in butter
5. Pour in milk and stir to form dough
6. Turn out onto a well-floured surface and roll out; cut into 6x6 inch squares
7. Fill the core of each apple with blueberries
8. Place whole apple in the center of each square and drizzle with maple syrup
9. Pull up corners of dough and pinch edges together to seal
10. Place dumplings in prepared pan and sprinkle with cinnamon and nutmeg
11. Combine remaining maple syrup with enough water to pour over dumplings to a 1 inch depth in dish
12. Submerge remaining blueberries and apple peelings with dried orange peel in the liquid
13. Bake 45 minutes, basting as necessary, until crisp and brown
14. Serve WARM

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