Cream Cheese Pastry For Turnovers Recipe

Use this cream cheese filling as a base for the varieties of turnovers below.

• Meal Type: Appetizer
• Ethnicity: American
• Holiday Category: N/A
• Preparation Time: Over 1 hour, less than 1 day

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cup flour
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 teaspoons milk

Directions

1. Mix butter, cream cheese, salt and flour to form soft dough. Chill overnight.
2. Break off part of dough (keeping remainder chilled until time to roll it out) and roll it paper thin on a floured surface. With cookie cutter cut into 2 or 3-inch circles and fill with one of the following fillings. When ready to bake, brush tops with egg yolk, beaten with the milk. Place on ungreased baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees F for 20 minutes. The unbaked pastries may be frozen and baked frozen or thawed slightly.
3. Mushroom Turnovers
   1/2 pound fresh mushrooms, chopped fine
   2 tablespoons butter
   1/2 cup chopped onion
   1/2 teaspoon salt
   Dash of pepper
   Dash of ground nutmeg
   1 teaspoon lemon juice
   2 teaspoons flour
   1/2 cup sour cream
   1 teaspoon dill weed
   1 recipe Cream Cheese Pastry
4. Sauté mushrooms in butter with the onion until limp. Add salt, pepper, nutmeg and lemon juice. Blend in flour until smooth and slightly thickened. Stir in sour cream and dill weed. Cool filling. Place scant teaspoon of filling on one side of pastry round. Fold over and crimp edges with fork tines. Bake according to pastry instructions.
5. Yields 4 dozen.
6. Old California Empanaditos
   1/2 cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
   2 tablespoons butter, melted
   2 scallions, chopped
   1 clove garlic, crushed
   1/4 cup chopped ripe olives
   Dash of oregano
   1/4 cup canned chopped green chiles,
       blotted dry
   1/2 recipe Cream Cheese Pastry
7. Mix filling ingredients thoroughly. Place small amount on one side of a 2- or 3-inch pastry round. Fold over and crimp edges with fork tines. Bake according to pastry instructions.
8. Yields 2 dozen.
9. Pork Ginger Roll
   1 pound ground lean pork
   1/2 cup flaked crab meat or
       finely chopped shrimp
   1 teaspoon salt
   1/2 cup water chestnuts, chopped
   2 scallions, minced
   1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
   2 tablespoons soy sauce
   1 small clove garlic, crushed
   1 egg
   1/4 cup fine dry bread crumbs
   1 recipe Cream Cheese Pastry
10. Cook pork until whitish but not dry. Mix with other filling ingredients and cool. Roll pastry into four 12 x 9-inch rectangles. Spread each with 1/4 filling and roll up, beginning with long side. Moisten to seal edges. Chill. Bake on ungreased baking sheet 30 to 35 minutes at 375 degrees F. Cool slightly. Cut into 1-inch slices to serve.
11. Yields 4 dozen slices.
12. Shrimp Tartlets
    1/2 cup mashed cooked shrimp
    2 scallions, chopped
    1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
    1/4 teaspoon tarragon
    1 teaspoon lemon juice
    2 tablespoons mayonnaise
    Salt, to taste
    1/2 recipe Cream Cheese Pastry
13. Mix filling ingredients well. Place small amount on side of a 2- or 3-inch pastry round. Fold over and crimp edges with fork tines. Chill 1 hour, then bake according to pastry instructions.
14. Yields 2 dozen.