Uncle Bill's Pastry Dough For Peroshky

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 1/4 cups cake-and-pastry flour
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup golden crisco or 3/4 cup regular crisco
• 1 large egg, beaten
• 2 tablespoons cold water
• 1 teaspoon vinegar

Recipe

• 1 in a mixing bowl, combine cake and pastry flour and salt.
• 2 add crisco and using a pastry blender, cut in until mixture is uniform and crumbly.
• 3 in a small bowl, beat egg.
• 4 add water and vinegar and mix to blend.
• 5 add egg mixture to flour and mix until dough is evenly moist.
• 6 divide dough in half and form into balls.
• 7 wrap one dough ball in plastic wrap while you are using the other one.
• 8 on a lightly floured surface roll dough out to about 1/8" thickness.
• 9 using a 3 1/2" round cookie cutter or any tool that would be about this size, cut out rounds.
• 10 prepare a medium size muffin baking tin by spraying with a non stick vegetable spray.
• 11 carefully lift dough rounds with a spatula and place rounds into the muffin tins.
• 12 gently press down and around the sides of the muffin tin to shape.
• 13 place about 2 tablespoons of fruit mixture into the prepared dough cup keeping fruit mixture down about 1/4" from the top, (do not overfill).
• 14 using the tynes of a fork, press the top edge of the pastry to form a crinkled pattern.
• 15 add 1/2 teaspoon of sugar (if desired) onto the fruit.
• 16 bake in a preheated 400 f oven for 12 to 15 minutes or until the crust is just lightly brown.
• 17 let sit for about 5 minutes to cool slightly.
• 18 carefully run a small sharp knife around the edges and remove tarts onto a wire rack to cool.
• 19 the crusts will be quite short, so be carefull when removing the tarts from the muffin tins.
• 20 serve with butter, ice cream, sour cream, yogurt, whipping cream or whipped cream.
• 21 these tarts are good to eat hot or cold.