Name: Paselitos
Ingredients: ---Dough---; 1 1/2 c Unbleached white flour; 1 ts Baking powder; 1/2 ts Salt; 6 tb Lard or vegetable oil; chilled; 3 1/2 tb Cold water; 1 Egg; 1 tb Milk -filling---; 1 c Dried fruit; cooked and drained; 1/3 c Sugar; 1 tb Honey; 1/4 ts Ground cinnamon

They who avow the doctrines distinguished by the name of Calvinistic, ought, if consistent with their own principles, to be most gentle and forbearing of all men, in meekness instructing them that oppose. With us, it is a fundamental maxim, that a man can receive nothing but what is given him from heaven (John 3:27). If, therefore, it has pleased God to give us the knowledge of some truths, which are hidden from others, who have the same outward means of information; it is a just reason for thankfulness to Him, but will not justify our being angry with them; for we are no better or wiser than they in ourselves, and might have opposed the truths which we now prize, with the same eagerness and obstinacy, if His grace had not made us to differ. If the man, mentioned in John 9, who was born blind, on whom our Lord graciously bestowed the blessing of sight, had taken a cudgel and beat all the blind men he met, because they would not see, his conduct would have greatly resembled that of an angry Calvinist.

John Newton

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Fruits, Vegetables, Eggs, Dairy	American	Breakfast, Desserts, Fruit, Jams & jell, Luncheon	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

		—Dough—
1 1/2	c	Unbleached white flour
1	ts	Baking powder
1/2	ts	Salt
6	tb	Lard or vegetable oil; chilled
3 1/2	tb	Cold water
1		Egg
1	tb	Milk -filling—
1	c	Dried fruit; cooked and drained
1/3	c	Sugar
1	tb	Honey
1/4	ts	Ground cinnamon

INSTRUCTIONS

Mash the cooked fruit and add sugar, honey, and cinnamon. Stir well.
Preheat oven to 400 F. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a mixing
bowl. Cut lard until the mixture resembles a fine meal. Slowly add water
until dough is easy to roll. Roll out to 1/4-inch thickness, and cut into
4-inch rounds. Put one tablespoon of fruit filling on one-half of each
round, fold over the other half of the round, and pinch edges together
firmly. Prick the tops in several places with the tines of a fork. Mix egg
with milk and brush on the tops of the pies. Bake for 15 minutes or until
lightly browned. Makes 10 Paselitos.
Recipe by: Beverly Cox & Martin Jacobs/Spirit of the American Harvest
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #789 by Lynn Cage <ltcage@onr.com> on Sep 18,
1997

A Message from our Provider:

“Quit griping about your church; if it was perfect, you couldn’t belong.”

Some people are fond of debating whether or not we have free will. The Bible’s answer is that it depends on what you mean by “free.” If by “free” you mean that we do what we want to do, that nothing forces us to believe or to act against our will, then the Bible’s answer is “yes.” Our will is always free to act in accord with its nature. But if by “free” you mean that somehow our will is morally neutral and above the fray, able to choose between good and evil on its own merits, independent of predisposition or motive, then the answer is a clear and unequivocal “no.” Our nature is corrupted and, as Paul says, we are sold as slaves to sin. We can no more choose not to be sinners than a fish can choose not to be a swimmer. It’s our nature.

Michael Lawrence