Southern Fried Peach Pies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

For dough
2 cups all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup Crisco
milk
butter
For filling
6 ounces dried peaches
water
1 1/2 cups sugar
oil (for frying)

Preparation

Place flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
Cut in crisco with pastry cutter or fork.
Add enough milk to make dough, do not mix too much.
Let biscuit dough sit for 1 hour.
Meanwhile take dried peaches and put in sauce pan with enough water to cover and cook until soft.
Add 1 1/2 cups of sugar and cook 15 minuts more.
Remove from stove and mash with potato masher; set aside.
Preheat electric skillet to 300 degrees.
Take biscuit dough and pull enough off for one pie, roll it out thin on floured board. Take a saucer, place on rolled out dough and trim around it with a sharp knife.
Place two big spoons of peaches on one side of dough and lap the other side over in half moon shape. Seal the edges with a fork.
Fry pies in skillet until brown, then turn and brown other side.
Drain on paper towels.
These pies can be eaten warm or stored in a container and eaten the next day room temperature they are awesome either way.