Hooray for these delicious hand pies! Your recipe and instructions resulted in a family-favorite, now circulating with friends across state lines. The pastry puffs up like no other... I added two additional cycles of folding and rolling. If the pastry dough appears too dry and disconnected at first, stay with firm hand pressing, and the dough will come together beautifully--smooth rolling ahead, just use plenty of sprinkled flour. Friends liked cookie-cutter openings, providing full color view of the fruity filling. Adding a few uncooked, fresh blueberries to the cooked filling resulted in a moister and fruitier product. Excellent recipe, as always!

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