Liberty Hill Inn

Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts

Heritage Recipe

Irish Apple Pastry

This recipe came from my husband's grandmother on the Brosnihan farm in North Brookfield, Massachusetts. My husband's mother, Katherine Brosnihan Flanagan, made it with love for her family and passed down the recipe to me. - Beth Flanagan, former innkeeper

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

6 Tablespoons Crisco shortening

4 teaspoons baking powder

2 Tablespoons sugar

2/3 cup milk

Mixture for filling:

2-1/2 cups chopped apples

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 cup sugar

2 Tablespoons butter

Frosting:

2 Tablespoons hot water

1-1/2 cups confectioners sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

Sift flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder. Cut in shortening until mixture is the consistency of small peas. Add milk. Then roll out on well floured board to 1/2-inch thickness. Spread with filling mixture. Fold sides over and seal. Bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes.

Combine frosting ingredients. Spread it on pastry while hot.

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