Strawberry Hand-pie – We Love God!

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Bruce Hurt

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy		Home5	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1		Stick butter
1 1/4	c	Sugar
1		Egg
3	oz	Cream cheese
2	t	Buttermilk
3	c	All-purpose flour
1/4	t	Baking soda
1	t	Baking powder
1/2	t	Salt
1	c	Strawberry preserves
2	c	Diced fresh strawberries
1	t	Lemon juice
2	t	Lemon zest

INSTRUCTIONS

Directions: To make the dough, cream together the butter and sugar
with an electric mixer. Add the egg and cream cheese, blending well.
Add the buttermilk and mix to combine. Slowly mix in the flour to  form
a dough. Add the baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Blend  well and
then knead the dough with hands, forming a ball. Refrigerate  the dough
for 1 hour. To make the pies, roll out the dough and cut  six 6"
circles. Prepare the filling by combining the strawberry  preserves,
fresh strawberries, lemon juice, and lemon zest. Spoon 3  tablespoons
of filling onto one side of each dough circle. Fold the  clean side
over and press the edges together with a fork. Bake at 375  degrees for
20 minutes, until golden.  Converted by MC_Buster.  Converted by
MM_Buster v2.0l.

A Message from our Provider:

“Can’t change? Jesus frees us”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 3615 Calories From Fat: 1147 Total Fat: 130.6g Cholesterol: 524mg Sodium: 2345.5mg Potassium: 1113.2mg Carbohydrates: 566.1g Fiber: 16.7g Sugar: 269.1g Protein: 53.5g

Afflictions serve most effectually to convince us of the vanity of all that this world can afford, to remind us that this is not our rest and to stir up desires and hopes for our everlasting home. They produce in us a spirit of sympathy towards our companions in tribulation. They give occasion for the exercise of patience, meekness, submission, and resignation. Were it not for the wholesome and necessary discipline of affliction, these excellent virtues would lie dormant. Afflictions serve to convince us more deeply of our own weakness and insufficiency, and to endear the person, the grace, the promises, and the salvation of our Redeemer, more and more to our hearts. Thus we are taught to esteem His very chastisements as precious on account of the benefits we derive from them.

John Fawcett