Baked Fruit Dumplings Recipes

FRUIT DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Cream butter with sugar.
• Add eggs, stirring hard.
• Add cottage cheese and flour.
• Stir well and gradually add enough milk to make a soft dough.
• Roll out on floured board (not too thin), and cut in squares. Into each square put a blue plum, apricot or sweet cherries. Pinch corners together and roll into a ball.
• Boil dumplings in a large pot filled with rapidly boiling, salted water for 10-12 minutes.
• Serve with melted butter and a mixture of sugar and cinnamon.

BAKED FRUIT DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a 7x11 inch baking dish.
• In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt and brown sugar. Cut in butter. Pour in milk and stir to form a dough. Turn out onto a well-floured surface and roll out. Cut into 6 - 6 inch squares.
• Place a whole apple in the center of each square. Fill the core with blueberries. Drizzle with maple syrup. Pull up corners of dough and pinch edges together to seal. Place dumplings in prepared pan and sprinkle with cinnamon and nutmeg.
• Combine remaining maple syrup with enough water to pour over dumplings to a 1 inch depth in dish. Submerge remaining blueberries and apple peelings with dried orange peel in liquid.
• Bake in preheated oven 45 minutes, basting as necessary, until crisp and browned. Serve warm with sauce.

BAKED APPLE DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine the sugar, bread crumbs, cinnamon and nutmeg. On a lightly floured surface, roll pastry into two 12-in. squares. Cut each sheet into nine 4-in. squares., Brush squares with egg. Place 1 teaspoon sugar mixture in the center of a square; top with 2 tablespoons chopped apple and 1 teaspoon sugar mixture. Gently bring up corners of pastry to center; pinch edges to seal. Repeat with remaining pastry, crumb mixture and apples. Place on greased baking sheets., In a small bowl, combine the streusel ingredients. Brush remaining egg over dumplings; press streusel over tops., Bake at 400° for 14-18 minutes or until golden brown. Place pans on wire racks. Combine icing ingredients; drizzle over dumplings.

ALLIE'S DELICIOUS BAKED DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Lightly grease a baking sheet.
• Roll out each sheet of pastry to measure 12x12 inches. Cut into quarters, to make 8 - 6 inch squares.
• In a small bowl, combine sugar, bread crumbs, cinnamon and nutmeg. Brush a pastry square with beaten egg. Place 1 tablespoon bread crumb mixture in center. Place one apple half, core side down, over bread crumbs. Top with another tablespoon of mixture. Pull up four corners of pastry and pinch sides together to seal seams completely. Repeat with remaining apples.
• Brush each dumpling with beaten egg. Place in preheated oven for 15 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and continue baking 25 minutes more, until lightly browned. Let cool completely at room temperature.
• To make icing, combine confectioners' sugar and vanilla and enough milk to make a drizzling consistency. Drizzle over cooled dumplings. Serve the same day.

CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS, OVEN BAKED

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• FILLING.
• Steam vegetables until just tender. Set aside.
• My favorite vegetable combinations are broccoli, cauliflower and carrots or potatoes, corn, and carrots.
• Melt butter in large frying pan over medium heat.
• Add onion and saute for approximately 8 minutes.
• Stir in flour and cook for an additional 2 minutes.
• Add broth and milk. Stir until sauce has thickened.
• Remove from heat and stir in parmesan cheese. It will become a nice creamy sauce!
• Stir in vegetables and shredded chicken.
• Pour filling into a 9 inch square casserole pan.
• DUMPLINGS:.
• Mix together dry ingredients.
• Cut in shortening with pastry knife until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal.
• Lightly mix in milk until forms a soft dough.
• Drop by tablespoons onto filling.
• Bake for 20 - 25 minutes.

MARY'S BAKED FRUIT

Steps:

• In a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan, starting at the 9-in. end, arrange rows of fruit in the following order: half of the apricots, pears and plums, all of the peaches, then remaining apricots, pears and plums. , Drain pineapple, reserving 1/2 cup of juice. Lay pineapple over fruit in pan. In a saucepan, combine the pineapple juice, brown sugar, butter, cinnamon and cloves. Cook and stir until sugar is dissolved and butter is melted. Pour over fruit. , Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until heated through.