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     Title: Empanaditas
Categories: Appetizers, Meats, Fruits, Mexican, Cheese/eggs
     Yield: 12 Servings

     1 lb Ground beef
     2 tb Raisins; finely chopped
   1/4 ts Salt
   1/4 c  Cottage cheese; sm curd, cream
     1 lg Egg; separated
     1    Pastry recipe; two 10" crusts
   1/4 c  Onion; finely chopped, 1 md
     2 tb Green olives; chopped
   1/8 ts Pepper
     1 lg Egg; hard cooked *
     1 ts Water
     2 ts Milk

 * Hard boiled egg should be peeled and chopped.

 Cook and stir ground beef in 10-inch skillet, breaking up into
 small pieces, until brown; drain reserving 1 tb fat and the beef in
 the skillet. Stir in onion, raisins, olives, salt and pepper.
 Cover and cook over low heat for 5 minutes. Stir in cottage cheese
 and hard cooked egg. Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Mix egg white and
 water until slightly foamy; reserve. Prepare pastry dough; gather
 into a ball. Divide into halves. Shape into 2 flattened rounds on
 lightly floured cloth covered surface. Roll 1 round of pasty into
 circle, about 14" in diameter.  Cut into 11 or 12 circles, 3-1/2"
 in diameter.  Spoon on 2 tb of the beef mixture at the center of
 each circle; brush edge of pastry with egg white mixture. Fold
 pastry circle up over filling; press edge with fork to seal. place
 empanaditas on ungreased cookie sheet  Repeat with remaining pastry
 circles. Gather any remianing pastry; shape into another round.
 Repeat rolling cutting and filling. Beat egg yolk and milk until
 well blended; brush over tops of empanaditas. Bake until golden
 brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Serve warm.

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