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Definition of Apple turnover
1. Noun. Turnover with an apple filling.
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
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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