Quebec Apple Dumplings

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2 sheets pie dough (double batch)
• 1/4 cup cheddar cheese, grated
• 12 apples, medium, peeled & cored
• 1/2 cup mincemeat
• 1/4 cup rum
• butter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup cream
• 1/2 lemon, zest of

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400°f
• 2 make enough pie enough to roll into 12 6"x6" squares (about a double batch.).
• 3 sprinkle each square with 1 tsp grated cheddar. peel and core apples and place one on each square. fill the centre of each apple with 2 tsp (or 1 heaping tsp) of mincement, 1 tsp of rum, a dot of butter and 1 tablespoon sugar.
• 4 bring diagonally opposite corners of dough over the apple to form ears at the top. cover the 'ears' with aluminium foil.
• 5 mix the brown sugar, cream and grated lemon rind. brush the dumplings with this mixture and bake 35 to 45 minutes in 400f oven.
• 6 remove foil, brush ears with cream mixture and return to oven till 'ears' are brown. serve warm with plain or sweetened cream, flavoured with rum.