National Apple Turnover Day: July 5

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How To Celebrate this Holiday:

This holiday is celebrated by sharing apple turnovers! Make some up yourself or go to your nearest bakery and pick up a box to share with family and friends. The fast food chain "Arbys" sales apple, cherry & chocolate.

Host a apple turnover baking & making party.

Be sure to get a basket of apples and play a few apple related party games.

This day is celebrated with a variety of recipes and preparations of Apple.

There are get-togethers and competitions held to celebrate the day.

Learn what apples make the best baking apples. Here's a great link

Learn about apple pie fillings.

Learn about fried apple pies.

Pictured Above:

Sweet turnover made from puff pastry.

Puff pastry seems to be a relative of the Middle Eastern phyllo, and is used in a similar manner to create layered pastries. While traditionally ascribed to the French painter and cook Claude Gelée who lived in the 17th century (the story goes that Gelée was making a type of very buttery bread for his sick father, and the process of rolling the butter into the bread dough created a croissant-like finished product), references appear before the 17th century, indicating a history that came originally through Muslim Spain and was converted from thin sheets of dough spread with olive oil to laminated dough with layers of butter, perhaps in Italy or Germany.

Origin of this holiday

Our research did not find the creator, or the origin of this day. We did however find that this holiday has been celebrated for years. There is plenty of documentation to support that this holiday does indeed exist. This holiday is referred to as a "National" day. However, we did not find any congressional records or presidential proclamations for this day. Even though we didn't, this is still a holiday that's celebrated.

Now let's learn:

It is common for sweet turnovers to have a fruit filling and be made with a shortcrust pastry or puff pastry dough; savory turnovers generally contain meat and/or vegetables and can be made with any sort of dough, though a kneaded yeast dough seems to be the most common in Western cuisines. They are usually baked, but may be fried.

Savory turnovers are often sold as convenience foods in supermarkets. Savory turnovers with meat or poultry and identified as a turnover (for example, "Beef Turnover" or "Cheesy Chicken Turnover") have to meet a standard of identity or composition, and must contain a certain amount of meat or poultry.

Ingredients

Turnovers can be filled with everything from apples and blueberries, to meats like chicken, beef and pork, to cheese, raisins, cranberries and sweet potatoes, to wild rabbit and leeks.

We found recognition about this holiday from:

Calendar sites and personal Internet sites that blog and share information about this holiday.

Eatocracy.cnn.com tell us "Instead of your boring morning cereal, slapping some just-like-Mom-used-to-make apple pie filling onto a sheet of puff pastry and folding it over makes the perfect portable pie...etc"

news.yahoo.com says: "National Apple Turnover Day" to commemorate those sumptuous, flaky pockets of joy filled with juicy apples and mouth-watering spices. There's only one way to rightfully celebrate this day, and that's by breaking out the puff pastry and baking up a batch of your own!...etc"

theultimateholidaysite.com says: "Believe it or not, graham crackers were not invented for the sole purpose of serving as 1/3 of a s'more. Graham crackers actually began as a diet food, part of a whole diet plan developed by Dr. Graham and designed to curb carnal urges.....etc"

cdkitchen.com says: "Like easily portable, hand-held little apple pies, apple turnovers are an elegant taste-treat that fit well on dining table dessert plates or in workday lunchboxes. It's nice when scrumptious pastry like this gets its own Fun Food Holiday: National Apple Turnover Day!...etc" See their list of recipes too.

mahalo.com says: "The turnovers have a shelf life of about 4 days, and are best if frozen immediately (rather than being stored in the refrigerator). Frozen apple turnovers are best if eaten with 6 months of freezing....etc"

altiusdirectory.com says: "center of the apple turnovers are made up of apples, apple sauce, walnuts, dried currants, cinnamonand a little sugar vanilla and many other ingredients as per the taste can be used.

thememagazine.com says "It’s “forbidden,” yet it’s the most widely cultivated fruit of all. You leave them on teacher’s desks, or you eat one to keep the doctor away, and if you’re William Tell you blow it off the top of your son’s head with a well-placed arrow. It helped Isaac Newton discover gravity and it’s printed on the back of your iPod...etc."

You may also want to research:

Bridie, Calzone, Empanada, Hot Pockets, Jamaican patty, Knish,

Panzerotti, Pasty, Pot pie, Sambusac, Samosa, Stromboli,

Strudel, Vietnamese Banh Pate Chau

This Food Holiday shares July 5 with.......

National Graham Cracker Day, Workaholics Day, Bloody Thursday

(International Longshore and Warehouse Union), Independence

Day celebrate the independence of Algeria from France in 1962,

Independence Day celebrate the independence of Cape Verde from

Portugal in 1975, Independence Day celebrate the independence

of Venezuela from Spain in 1811, Saints Cyril and Methodius Day

(Czech Republic, Slovakia), Tynwald Day, if July 5 is on a weekend,