To make ahead and freeze: 1. use regular pie crust 2. add a teaspoon of powdered tapioca or tapioca flour to the filling 3. freeze shaped dumplings unbaked. Store in freezer weight bags. Place frozen into pan and add syrup as per recipe. Bake from frozen about 10 minutes longer than time given. If you bake without the syrup then you get regular old apple turnovers not the special dumpling consistency. Reheating with syrup makes crust squishy. Been there, done that.

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