Pastries Dessert Recipes - Christmas Peach Parcels Recipe

Ingredients

• 8 sheets of filo pastry (Paste)

• 75 g/3 oz/1/3 cup butter, melted

• 410 g/1 large can of peach halves, drained, reserving the juice

• 450 g/1 lb/1 medium jar of mincemeat

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Method:

1. For each parcel, brush a pastry sheet with a little butter. Fold in half width ways and brush again.

2. Place a peach half in the centre and add a tablespoonful of mincemeat to the cavity. Draw the pastry up over the fruit to form a parcel. Transfer to a buttered baking (cookie) sheet.

3. Brush with a little more butter. Repeat with the remaining peach halves.

4. Bake in a preheated oven at 200C/400F/gas mark 6 for about 15 minutes until golden brown. Serve hot or cold with a little of the reserved juice poured over.