Definition of Apple turnover

1. Noun. Turnover with an apple filling.

Generic synonyms: Turnover

Definition of Apple turnover

1. Noun. a pastry dessert filled with pieces of sweetened apples, so named because the pastry is folded (turned) over to enclose the filling. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apple Turnover

apple orchard
apple pear
apple pears
apple pie
apple pies
apple polisher
apple rust
apple sauce
apple seed
apple snow
apple strudel
apple strudels
apple tart
apple tree
apple trees
apple turnover (current term)
apple turnovers
apple wine
apple worm
apple worms
applecart
applecarts
applehood
applejack
applejacks
applejohn
applejohns
appleless
applemint
apples

Literary usage of Apple turnover

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"An apple turnover. Suffolk. It is also called an apple-jack, and is made by folding sliced apples with sugar in a coarse mist, and baking them without a pan ..."

2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"An apple turnover. Suffolk It is also called an ... An apple-turnover. Hants. In Norfolk it is called an ..."

3. The Smith-McMurry Language Series by Charles Alphonso Smith, Lida Brown McMurry (1919)
""I wish I had a great big apple turnover," drawled Wishing Raccoon. "What?" asked the Wish Fairy. "I wish I had a great big apple turnover," said the ..."

4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"Used for tantrums [JG Nail, EST]. *A'pieces. For to pieces, eg 'Ta crumble all a'pieces' [EST]. Apple-jack. A pastry, better known as Apple-turnover, ..."

5. Kettner's Book of the Table: A Manual of Cookery, Practical, Theoretical by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1877)
"apple turnover.—Roll out a short paste, and cut it in rounds. Put some stewed apples, with proper seasoning, on one side of the round ; turn over the paste ..."

6. A Glossary of Words Used in East Anglia: Founded on that of Forby : with by Walter Rye, Robert Forby (1895)
"Used for tantrums [JG Nail, EST]. *A'pieces. For to pieces, eg 'Ta crumble all a pieces' [EST]. Apple-jack. A pastry, better known as Apple-turnover, ..."

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