Dumplings Made with Pie Crust

Pastry and fruit bake together in many forms of fruit desserts. Among the all-time greats are dumplings— tender, juicy fruit in flaky, golden pastry jackets. With farm families, apple dumplings outrank all the rest. We give you two recipes for this treat. In one, you wrap the pastry around the apples, making an especially attractive dessert. You’ll find a picture of this kind of dumpling in this book. In the other, you simply lay the pastry over the apples after they’re in the baking pan, shaping it around the fruit. Both crusts are exceptionally crisp.