Apple Dumplings - cooking recipe

Ingredients

12 medium-small apples, peeled and cored
cinnamon-sugar (1 c. sugar mixed with 3 Tbsp. cinnamon)
butter or margarine, about 1/2 tsp. for each dumpling
pastry for 2 (9-inch) pies

Preparation

Roll out 1/4 of dough.
Slice into quarters.
Place a peeled and cored apple on each quarter.
Fill the cored center of the apple with cinnamon-sugar.
Top with 1/2 teaspoon butter or margarine.
Enclose the apple with the dough and stretch the dough around it to seal it.
Place in cake pan.
Bake the dumplings at 375\u00b0 for 40 minutes.
Yields 1 dozen.