It's not July but close! I was asked by some next generation folks to teach them some baking. I decided the hand pies were a perfect addition to a cook-along agenda. Yes! The suggestion here of dividing the dough worked having 4 students. Make it together, divide it in fourths, one for each. The cutting off of the edges made brilliant puffy sides. August being THE berry month, everyone chose to make the jam filling and universally the ability to taste the fruit and not have it masked with sugar was a big plus. Two adjustments may be of interest: first I wanted to make a pick-up, party size that could be frozen for quick bakes when needed, whether savory or sweet. So I shaped each fourth into rectangle pieces and had the students roll a 5" by 10" rectangle cut into 2 rows and 4 columns to make four 2 1/2 inch pies. Worked great. Since I only owned 1 silicon roll out mat, I made on Word and printed out a rectangle shape 5x10". Each taped that to the counter as a template. They divided a 1/2 sheet parchment in two and taped one of them over the template. Rolling and cutting on the parchment was then easy to size and trim. It was horrid hot in August so the other half was placed on top of dough for rolling. This really was efficient and effective. One could probably just use tape on the counter to make the rectangle and then taped the first piece of parchment over that. Hope some will fine this useful. Happy baking.

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