Title: Apple dumplings #2
 Categories: Dessert
      Yield: 6 Servings
 
      2 c  Sugar
      2 c  Water
    1/4 ts Cinnamon
    1/4 ts Nutmeg
    1/4 c  Butter
      6 ts Apples
      2 c  Flour
      1 ts Salt
      2 ts Baking powder
    3/4 c  Shortening
    3/4 c  Milk
 
  Combine sugar, water, cinnamon and nutmeg in a medium saucepan.  Heat
  over medium heat until mixture becomes syrup; add butter.  Pare and
  core apples; cut into fourths.  Sift flour, salt, baking powder into
  bowl.  Cut in shortening with a pastry knife (or a regular table
  knife) until mixture becomes crumbly.  Add milk all at once and stir
  just until moistened.  Roll dough out to 1/4 inch thickness.  Cut
  dough into 6 - 5 inch squares. Arrange 4 pieces of apple on each
  square and sprinkle with additional sugar, cinnamon. Fold corners to
  center of each square and pinch edges together to seal dumplings
  (make sure they are sealed tightly and no apple is sticking out!).
  Place dumplings in buttered baking dish. Pour syrup over dumplings.
  Baste dumplings with the syrup once or twice while baking. Bake:
  375F  35 minutes