Brandied Apple Pork Pastries

The idea came as a savory craving while drifting to sleep. The mission of the next day was to create the delectable little morsels, using ingredients almost all from the Farm!
These little pastries are the ultimate in comfort food; nothing short of incredibly buttery, rich, and piping hot!

You'll need:
-sweet onions
-apples
-brandy
-ground pork
-blue cheese
-salt, pepper, cayenne, nutmeg, cloves, jalepeno pepper
-butter
-flour
-salt
-sugar
-white vinegar
-egg whites
-one egg


Sautee Grant Family Farms pastured organic ground pork in a skillet until cooked, with seasoning to taste (salt, pepper, onion, garlic, jalepeno). Set aside. Sautee in the pork grease sweet cipollini onions and garlic until slightly carmelized. In a separate pot, simmer diced apples in brandy and butter, with a dash of nutmeg, cloves, and cayenne. When tender and cooked through, mix with pork and sauteed onions. This is the filling.

In a bowl, cut 7/8 C butter into 2 C white pastry flour. Add 1.5 t white vinegar, 1.5 t salt, and 1 t sugar, and one egg. Mix / knead together. Form into a ball, cover with wax paper and cool in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Divide into 5 small, equal-sized balls. Roll each ball out onto the counter in a 1/8 inch thick circle with extra flour to prevent sticking. fill with the meat and apple filling, topping generously with blue cheese crumbles. Fold the corners of the dough up all at once, pinching them together in the center to create a little square pastry package look.

Brush the pastries with egg whites to gloss and keep moist. Bake at 375 until crust is done, and lightly browned.

Enjoy!