Patelitos

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Little Fruit Pies

Baked Goods

Ingredients

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 200ÂșC . Combine flour, baking powder and salt int a mixing bow. Cut in Crisco until mixture resembles fine meal. Slowly add water until dough is easy to roll. roll out to 1 cm thickness and cut into 10 cm rounds, put 1 tablespoon 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 teh 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. ----