Ravioli Dolci

Total Time: 3 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 3 hrs Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 20
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup cake flour
• 4 ounces sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 teaspoons lemons, zest of
• 3 ounces unsalted butter
• 1 large egg
• 2 tablespoons cold water
• 1 lb seedless grapes
• 1/2 granny smith apple, cored and chopped
• 1/2 medium bosc pear, chopped and peeled
• 1/2 medium gala apple, peeled chopped
• 1/2 cup yellow squash, peeled and chopped
• 1/2 cup cold water
• 2 teaspoons orange zest
• 1 cup peeled roasted chestnuts, crumbled
• 2/3 cup golden raisin
• 1/2 cup pine nuts, toasted
• 2 tablespoons brandy
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter

Recipe

• 1 making the filling-- in a saucepan combine-- grapes, pear, apples, zests, and squash.
• 2 bring to a boil and cover slightly.
• 3 cook until fruit is breaking down and very soft, adding more water if necessary.
• 4 press the fruit thru a foley with a coarse blade.
• 5 place back into pot and cook another 20 minutes.
• 6 stir, and keep checking as not to scorch.
• 7 its ready when it coats a wooden spoon.
• 8 cool.
• 9 this takes a fair amount of time to do on low heat.
• 10 add the chestnuts, raisins, and pine nuts, and brandy.
• 11 stir well otherwards what you made was sort of a mincemeat.
• 12 pastry-- combine all dry ingredients and zest.
• 13 add butter chilled and in cubes.
• 14 sprinkle with beaten egg, and water combined.
• 15 combine until you have a pastry dough just forming into a ball.
• 16 this could all be done in a processor if desired.
• 17 turn onto to board, gather into a loose ball.
• 18 wrap in saran and chill.
• 19 roll out the dough on a floured board about 1/8 inch thick.
• 20 or less use a round 3 inch cutter cut out rounds.
• 21 fill each with a teaspoon of filling.
• 22 brush a little beaten egg around inner edges and fold over.
• 23 crimp, and seal with a fork.
• 24 re roll dough and continue until all scrapes are used.
• 25 preheat oven 350 degrees.
• 26 place on greased cookie sheets.
• 27 bake 18 minutes until golden.
• 28 cool on rack.
• 29 dust with confectioners sugar.