Fried Little Pies

Description

In Romanian: Placintele prajite

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons oil
• 1 cup water
• 1 lb / 500 g flour
• 2 tablespoons lard
• salt

Filling

• may be meat the same as for Meat Pie
• cottage or sheep's cheese the same as for Cottage Cheese Pie
• liver
• mushrooms, or
• marmalade

Directions

1. Make a dough from oil, water, salt and flour.
2. Knead well.
3. It should be on the soft rather than hard side.
4. Cover and let sit for 10 – 15 minutes.
5. Then roll into a sheet a little thinner than a pencil, grease with a little melted lard and fold three ways across.
6. Grease again with lard and fold again three ways, this time lengthwise.
7. Refrigerate for 10 minutes.
8. Repeat the folding procedure, this time starting lengthwise and then across.
9. After being refrigerated for 10 minutes, roll into a sheet a little thinner than a pencil and cut into 3 inch squares.
10. Put a teaspoon of the desired filling on.
11. Cover one corner with the opposite corner to obtain a triangle.
12. These pies can be fried or baked.
13. They may be served with soup.