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      Title: Patelitos (Little Fruit Pies)
 Categories: Cookies
      Yield: 10 servings
 
           Dough:
  1 1/2 c  Flour
      1 ts Baking powder
    1/2 ts Salt
      6 tb Crisco
      3 tb Cold water
      1    Egg
      1 tb Milk
           Filling:
      1 c  Dried fruit,
           -Cooked and drained;
           -* see note
    1/2 c  Sugar
      1 tb Honey
    1/4 ts Ground cinnamon
 
     Mash the cooked fruit, add sugar, honey and cinnamon. Stir well.

  * Note-any dried fruit, such as apricots, peaches, pears, currants, prunes
  or raisins may be used.
  
     Preheat oven to 400 F. Combine flour, baking powder and salt into a
  mixing bowl. Cut in Crisco until mixture resembles fine meal. Slowly add
  water until dough is easy to roll. Roll out to 1/4 inch thickness and cut
  into 4-inch rounds, put 1 tb of fruit filling on one half of each round,
  fold over and other half of the round, and pinch edges together firmly.
  Prick to tops in several places with the tines of a fork. Mix egg with milk
  and brush on the tops of the pies. Bake for 15 minutes or until lightly
  browned.

  Makes 10 Pastelitos
 
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