Fried Little Pies

Description
In Romanian: Placintele prajite

Ingredients

 * 3 tablespoons oil
 * 1 cup water
 * 1 lb / 500 g flour
 * 2 tablespoons lard
 * salt

Filling

 * may be meat the same as for Meat Pie
 * cottage or sheep's cheese the same as for Cottage Cheese Pie
 * liver
 * mushrooms, or
 * marmalade

Directions

 * 1) Make a dough from oil, water, salt and flour.
 * 2) Knead well.
 * 3) It should be on the soft rather than hard side.
 * 4) Cover and let sit for 10 – 15 minutes.
 * 5) Then roll into a sheet a little thinner than a pencil, grease with a little melted lard and fold three ways across.
 * 6) Grease again with lard and fold again three ways, this time lengthwise.
 * 7) Refrigerate for 10 minutes.
 * 8) Repeat the folding procedure, this time starting lengthwise and then across.
 * 9) After being refrigerated for 10 minutes, roll into a sheet a little thinner than a pencil and cut into 3 inch squares.
 * 10) Put a teaspoon of the desired filling on.
 * 11) Cover one corner with the opposite corner to obtain a triangle.
 * 12) These pies can be fried or baked.
 * 13) They may be served with soup.