I LOVE cherry turnovers – I do not make them myself at home any more – I used to many many many years ago in Iowa – I do not buy the packages (Pillsbury’s?) at Kroger – I drive down to Arby’s and go through the drive thru lane and order them – nice and hot and iced – they have cooled enough to eat by the time I get home 
I usually have 2 per month … if I went every week-end, I would soon get very tired of roast beef sandwiches and cherry turnovers but twice a month is a nice pleasant outing for take-home food.
For anyone interested in learning how to make them from scratch (DOES anyone actually cook or bake at home from ingredients instead of mixes any more?), I did a search for “cherry turnover recipe” at Google.
These are the two I looked at:
7 recipes over at cooks.com recipe search
Fresh Cherry Turnovers from Country Living
The Fresh Cherry Turnovers from Country Living recipe was quite similar to the recipe I used to use to make them in Iowa – except I always used cherry pie filling – the hard part was not eating all the cherry pie filling (very sweet but yummy) before it went onto the turnover dough – it was yummy dough to eat before cooking – I learned from my grandmother to eat uncooked cookie dough, pie crust, cake batter, muffin batter, bread dough, sweet roll dough, turnover dough and whatever else was being prepared for baking. Cooked is yummy too!
I feel like a connoisseur of raw baking goods sometimes because I have eaten so many varieties it seems … and most people look at me like I am quite bizarre if it comes up in conversation – they have taught me that it is not considered a normal part of people’s diet – I know for sure it was a normal part of my diet as a kid
My grandmother cooked and baked. I was not allowed to eat myself sick of uncooked or cooked baking desserts (or anything else for that matter) … in fact … a couple bites of the raw dough and perhaps a couple cookies from the oven and the rest went into the cookie jar … I grew up in an era where cookies and milk were served by my grandmother when I got home from school to go along with doing my homework – my grandmother did not have a job outside the home – she worked plenty hard in the home though – the woman was always working and with her not being a happy, smiling, laughing kind of person – the very best memories of her I have are when she was baking because she almost seemed … content … I guess content is a good word since she was not happy but not really resigned to her lot of living in the city during baking. I think she almost enjoyed baking
My grandmother never liked the city and I do not think she ever completely recovered from leaving the country farm – she did not drive and she was always getting lost taking the bus – even as a very little girl – it was my job to get us on the right bus to get home or we would end up way off across town where we didn’t want to be. It helped that the regular bus driver knew us well and if he saw us on the street at the wrong bus stop (before I could read well enough to know if we were at the right one or not) – Mr Ryan would stop and ask her if she was going home so we could get on the bus that went home.
My grandfather was gone most of my childhood it seemed – he drove a refrigerated semi all over the country earning a living for us, then he died when I was 10 years old. He had left the farm supposedly because it was not making any money – I think part of it was that the field hand work required for the farm to make any money was too much for my grandmother by the time they left the farm and since they could not afford to hire a field hand … she was in her mid forties when they left the country and she had never been really well, hale or hearty physically – she had a bronchial condition from birth that worsened as she aged – for awhile as a young adult wife, the doctors thought she had tuberculosis and she was in a TB sanitarium(?) for awhile until they figured out she didn’t have TB. Her lung condition turned into emphysema in her later years. She did not smoke but my grandfather did.
Anyway, back to cherry turnovers – my grandmother would make them maybe twice a year when I was a kid – it was her recipe I used when I grew up to make them. Now, I just go buy them ready-made so I can spend my time doing something else – painting or blogging or video gaming out usually in my spare time instead of baking desserts.
Other Tuesdays Topic / Cherry Turnover Links:
JGoode’s Cherry Turnovers – Yay
Cherry Turnover – Yum at Great Gear News
Napping with Cherry Yum! at love 2 nap
haha.. Arby’s is exactly what I do too. I LOVE their cherry turnovers — when they have them. Often times they claim to be sold out- i think they either ate too many themselves or don’t feel like cooking any more because they take so long… so thank YOU for sharing the recipes.
Cherries are the bestest
- a good substitute when the turnovers are gone are those dolly madison single pies that look kinda like a turnover — 3 for a dollar yum!
thanks for sharing
You’re so welcome! I enjoyed making them years ago … it was fun to ahve the kids help me make them – the time just flew I thought so it didn’t seem to take a long time. Maybe it did and I just didn’t notice because we wee having so much fun – it was always a mess to clean up afterward LOL but they helped with that too … while they were little … ocne they got to be about 9 or so … they didn’t want to help any more – not making them or cleaning up – just eating them!
So far, Arby’s have only tried to foist apple turnovers off on me once – it was a week-end and late in the afternoon so I thought they could easily be out.
I’ve been thinking aobut getting some of those packaged make your own to see if theya re any good – the pies are not my favorite – too heavy a crust for me … but then I usually do not eat much of the crust on home baked pies either – maybe I was spoiled since my grandmother made good pie crust (I never could get it to turn out well – she told me I handled it too much) and commercial store bought is usually awful (to me anyway).
In Iowa years and years ago, we had a … Bakers Square? … that was then bought by someone else … they had really good pies and crust – their crust did not taste as if it weighed 50 pounds – very flaky, light and crisp but not burnt.