SHOPPING LIST: Cooking Skills: Pastry 1, Chapter 7 (Hand Pies and Turnovers)

Shortcrust ingredients (chapter 1), ready-rolled puff pastry, beef mince, onion, garlic, ground cumin, smoked paprika, hard-boiled eggs, frozen spinach or fresh spinach, feta, ricotta, potatoes, peas, curry powder, fresh ginger, jam, an egg, milk, a 12 cm round cutter and a baking tray with parchment.

Jam turnovers (8 turnovers)
[ ] 2 sheets of ready-rolled all-butter puff pastry (320 g each)
[ ] 8 tsp thick jam
[ ] 1 egg, beaten
[ ] 2 tbsp caster sugar

Baked empanadas (10 empanadas)
[ ] 1 batch of plain shortcrust (chapter 1), with 1 egg yolk added
[ ] 1 tbsp sunflower or rapeseed oil
[ ] 1 onion, finely chopped
[ ] 2 garlic cloves, crushed
[ ] 250 g beef mince
[ ] 1 tsp ground cumin
[ ] 1 tsp smoked paprika
[ ] 2 hard-boiled eggs, chopped
[ ] 1 egg, beaten, to glaze

A spinach and feta pie (8 pies)
[ ] 1 batch of plain shortcrust (chapter 1)
[ ] 300 g frozen spinach, defrosted and squeezed very dry
[ ] 150 g feta, crumbled
[ ] 100 g ricotta
[ ] 1 egg yolk
[ ] 1 pinch nutmeg
[ ] 1 egg, beaten, to glaze

Samosa-style baked triangles (12 triangles)
[ ] 1 batch of plain shortcrust (chapter 1)
[ ] 300 g potatoes, boiled and diced
[ ] 100 g frozen peas
[ ] 1 tbsp sunflower or rapeseed oil
[ ] 1 small onion, finely chopped
[ ] 1 tbsp grated fresh ginger
[ ] 2 tsp mild curry powder
[ ] 1 egg, beaten, to glaze

For the experiments
[ ] Extra pastry offcuts or a spare batch
[ ] A fork for crimping
[ ] Baking parchment