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Empanadas - s. american

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Ingredients:
DOUGH
2 cupFlour, all purpose
2/3 cupShortening or lard
1/2 tspSalt
6 tbspWater
DESSERT FRUIT
2 1/2 cupFruit
1 tspCinnamon
1 cupSugar
1/2 tspNutmeg
CARNE ( ANY MEAT
1 Onion
1 tbspOlive oil
4 ozWater
Sal and Pepper to taste
1 Pepper, green
8 ozTomato paste
1 tbspVinegar
1 lbsBeef, sliced thinly
Procedures:
1Dough: in a medium mixing bowl, combine flour and salt.
2Cut in the shortening or lard till pieces are the size of small peas.
3Add a small amount of water to slightly moisten.
4Form dough into a ball.
5Roll out the dough to about 1/8 thick and cut into 4" circles.
6Flour lightly both side of circles and then stack up for later use.
7Dessert filling: just about any kind of fruit or melon may be used.
8Combine ingredients and heat to thoroughly mix, coarse chop, so that filling is chunky but bite-sized.
9Pumpkins is very good!! carne: just about any kind of meat may be used, depending on availability.
10The sauce seems to be the only fairly consistent thing.
11Saute the onion and green pepper in olive oil.
12Add remaining ingredients and cook for 20 minutes.
13( in s.a.
14This is continually cooked and prepared on the back burner, often being used and added to for several months at a time.
15It developes a flavor all its own..).
16Add meat and coat thoroughly with the sauce.
17Cooking: add a large spoonfull of one of the above mixtures to the center of a dough circle.
18Place another circle on top.
19Fasten the two circles together by reeding the edges with a fork.
20These may then be baked, at around 350 °F until brown, deep fat fried, fried, cooked or heated on a barbecue.
21They may also be wrapped in banana husks, well moistened corn husks, etc.
22The object is to heat thoroughly, cooking the meat and browning the outsides so they are dry enough to hold together