Homemade Pop Tarts?

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The LA Times' food section ran a front page article on Kelloggs' Pop
Tarts and included a recipe for making them at home. My first reaction
was, whyinhell would you want to make Pop Tarts? I wouldn't buy the
things in the market at the point of a gun. Well, okay, maybe if the
gun was loaded, but I've seen these things and they just look nasty.
The recipe in the Times looks for all the world like a hunk of pie
crust smeared with fruit preserves, etc. and another hunk of pie crust
stuck on top, which I suppose defines a Pop Tart.

http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-poptartsrec1-20110302,0,5077369.story

Again, why make these things? They're very poor imitations of fruit
hand pies, IMHO.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

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On Mar 3, 12:46?pm, Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:

Not everybody has a tradition of fruit hand pies. I'd never heard
of them until Alton Brown did 'em on his show, although I was
aware of Hostess fruit pies and McDonald's hot apple pies.

I succumbed to Pop Tarts marketing when they first came out;
luckily we couldn't afford to buy them frequently.

I come from a cake mix family. Nothing from scratch.

Cindy Hamilton
 
On 3/3/2011 7:46 AM, Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:

Mostly it's a way to feed little critters in 3 minutes or less. In that
regard, it's a pretty remarkable and successful product. It's important
to note that one third of that time should be used to cool that thing
down before letting the kid's handle it with their grubby paws - unless
you enjoy whining and whimpering.

OTOH, homemade Pop Tarts seems like a turnover that's lost all it's
filling. As an added bonus, it takes more than 10X the prep time of PT.
Fail.
 
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:46:24 -0800, Terry Pulliam Burd
wrote:


That may be so, but people like them. ;)

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"Terry Pulliam Burd" wrote in message
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Kids seem to like them.

Back when my dad grew raspberries, he would give me a ton of them. I don't
eat a lot of jam and when I do eat it, I only like strawberry.

What I did with the raspberries was to make my typical biscuit dough but I
added a small amount of instant potato flakes to the dough. Gives it a
better texture.

I would roll this out, cut in large circles, then press two together,
filling them with a mixture of raspberries, sugar and a little butter. I
would seal the edges with the tines of a fork, bake, then drizzle with
vanilla glaze.

The end result was like a Poptart but better.

I don't personally think of a Poptart as a pie. The crust is very
different. I do like the iced cherry ones, but not enough to buy them very
often at all. Maybe one box every 5 years. And even then they don't all
get eaten. But I can't stand any of the other flavors.
 
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On Mar 3, 9:46 am, Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:

When toasted...the only thing hotter is lava.

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I had forgotten that I do NOT like them toasted. Costco was giving out
samples of the brand they sell. I took one and was instantly wishing I
hadn't. They toasted it. Yuck!
 
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To me a Poptart is something you would eat when you really didn't have time
to eat but needed to eat. Like when you're on your way out the door and
have to eat in the car. That is pretty much the only time I ever used them.
 
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:39:01 -0800, Christine Dabney
wrote:

Thanks. Someone on Food Network made pop tarts not too long ago and
they looked good. I was never a pop tart fan, so that's as far as it
went for me. Maybe I'll try it after all. :)


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On 3/3/2011 1:26 PM, Julie Bove wrote:

My guess is many folks have even less time than they did in the 70s and
don't bother to heat them up. The product name should be changed to
reflect the changing and diminishing times. How about "Tarts?" :-)
 
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Christine Dabney wrote:

Because they're tasty. (The question to me is "Why not?" ;))


The basic impulse of jam in a pastry container is pretty universal as
far as I can see. "Fruit hand pies" are one expression of it. I'd never
heard of fruit hand pies until recently, btw. Turnovers, yeah. And I ate
my share of pop tarts when I was a kid.


Once again, Pim leads the way!

Charlotte
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The packaged ones were a convenient snack in the days before the
microwave oven became ubiquitous. Pop 'em in the toaster and a couple
of minutes later you've got a hot snack. Something the kids can do for
themselves without risking blowing up the house by having them light the
oven (we didn't have a pilot in our oven--there was a pipe you held a
match over, I would say that the designer was clearly an aficionado of
the Big Bang theory, but I think the oven was older than the theory).

Any recipe that calls for baking them in an oven most bodaciously misses
the point of them.
 
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