Baked Apple Dumplings

Name: Baked Apple Dumplings
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups (12½ ounces), all-purpose flour; 3 tablespoons, sugar; 2 teaspoons, baking powder; 3/4 teaspoon, salt; 10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks), unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch pieces and chilled; 5 tablespoons, vegetable shortening, cut into 1/2-inch pieces and chilled; 3/4 cups, cold buttermilk; 6 tablespoons (2⅔ ounces), sugar; 1 teaspoon, ground cinnamon; 3 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened; 3 tablespoons, golden raisins, chopped; 4 , Golden Delicious apples; 2 , egg whites, lightly beaten

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2009, Cook's Country TV

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Snow White's apple dumpling recipe persuaded the Seven Dwarfs to let her stay. If a Disney cartoon character could make apple dumplings worth remembering, surely the modern American cook can.

SERVES8

TIME1½ hours, plus 1 hour chilling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Biscuit dough was easier to work with than pie dough for our Baked Apple Dumplings and did a great job of absorbing the liquid from the apples without getting mushy. Some apple varieties we found didn’t cook through quickly enough, while ot...

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