Plums Wrapped in French Pastry

Easy to make, delicious French tart dough is wrapped around plums like little envelopes to make dumplings.
Plums Wrapped in French Pastry
Little plum dumplings. Maria Matyiku/The Epoch Times
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Easy to make, delicious French tart dough is wrapped around plums like little envelopes to make dumplings, a favourite of dessert lovers. Here is the recipe for little plum pastries that should satisfy the most refined tastes.

16 prune plums or a variety that can be easily pitted 16 -5 ml (16 tsp) sugar, or 16 sugar cubes Cinnamon (optional) 425 ml (1 3/4 cups) all purpose flour 10 ml (2 tsp) sugar 5 ml (1 tsp) salt 250 ml (1 cup) butter or margarine at the room temperature 6 – 15 ml (6-7 tbsp) cold water