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