{"id":706,"date":"2010-05-01T13:29:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T20:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/?p=706"},"modified":"2010-05-01T13:29:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T20:29:33","slug":"empanadas-mexican-turnovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/2010\/empanadas-mexican-turnovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Empanadas (Mexican Turnovers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 130px; border: 1px #69381d dotted; background: #CAC1B2; line-height:18px; margin-left:25px\">2 cups flour<br \/>\n2 tsp. baking powder<br \/>\n1 tsp. salt<br \/>\n1\/2 cup shortening<br \/>\n1\/3 cup cold milk<\/div>\n<p>Sift flour, baking powder and salt together in bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Cut in shortening.<\/p>\n<p>Add milk.<\/p>\n<p>Stir into a ball, handling like pie crust.<\/p>\n<p>Roll out thin, cut in 4&#8243; rounds or squares.<\/p>\n<p>Place a spoonful of filling on one half of a round.<\/p>\n<p>Fold over, moisten edges and press firmly so they seal.<\/p>\n<p>Deep fry, or bake 15 to 20 minutes at 400&deg; F.<\/p>\n<p><em>We like them best baked!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fillings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> refried beans, grated cheese and chopped chili peppers<\/li>\n<li> ground, cooked chicken or beef, sauteed with onion. Add 1\/2 tsp. cumin, 1 tsp. chili powder and 1 beaten egg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>For sweet turnovers,<\/strong> add:<br \/>\n2 tbsp. sugar to dry ingredients while making dough. Fill with 3 oz. cream cheese blended with 3 tbsp. strawberry preserves (or any other kind), or simply with shredded cheese. Sprinkle empanadas with confectioners&#8217; sugar after they are baked.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background:white; padding:5px\"><i>source:<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/titles\/459.shtml\">Heart and Hearth<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 cups flour 2 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 1\/2 cup shortening 1\/3 cup cold milk Sift flour, baking powder and salt together in bowl. Cut in shortening. Add milk. Stir into a ball, handling like pie crust. Roll out thin, cut in 4&#8243; rounds or squares. Place a spoonful of filling on one [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-excerpts","category-recipes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zSU2-bo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}