Southern Fried Peach Pies

By cwyorkiex3

petdrwife's Note:
This is a recipe from my Great Grandmother. I can remember going to her house and sitting down to a lunch of Fried chicken, mash potatoes, green beans, fried corn, biscuits and fried peach pies for dessert. It is a wonder we didn't all die from heart disease but that is country living. These directions were written for me real countryfied so I explained best I could but you will get the jist. Make dough, fill it and fry it!

Ingredients

• For dough:
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup Crisco
• milk
• butter
• For filling:
• 6 ounces dried peaches
• water
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• oil (for frying)

Preparation

Step 1

1.Place flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl.

2.Cut in crisco with pastry cutter or fork.

3.Add enough milk to make dough, do not mix too much.

4.Let biscuit dough sit for 1 hour.

5.Meanwhile take dried peaches and put in sauce pan with enough water to cover and cook until soft.

6.Add 1 1/2 cups of sugar and cook 15 minuts more.

7.Remove from stove and mash with potato masher; set aside.

8.Preheat electric skillet to 300 degrees.

9.Take biscuit dough and pull enough off for one pie, roll it out thin on floured board. Take a saucer, place on rolled out dough and trim around it with a sharp knife.

10.Place two big spoons of peaches on one side of dough and lap the other side over in half moon shape. Seal the edges with a fork.

11.Fry pies in skillet until brown, then turn and brown other side.

12.Drain on paper towels.

13.These pies can be eaten warm or stored in a container and eaten the next day room temperature they are awesome either way.