Many housewives love to pamper their household with delicious and satisfying pastries. But not everyone has enough time to prepare the dough. In this case, puff pastry and apples come to the rescue. This baking does not take much time, does not require special culinary skills, and apples are a generally available product, inexpensive and quick to process.
Buy or cook?
Today there are a huge number at home. Housewives are faced with a choice: buy dough in a store or make it themselves? Experts say that preparing truly delicious puff pastry is a rather complex and lengthy process. So choose high-quality dough in the store and cook without wasting time and effort.
Further recipes are offered taking into account the fact that the puff pastry has already been purchased from you, removed from the freezer, defrosted and ready to use.
How to roll it out?
It is important to remember that puff pastry is rolled out strictly in one direction. Don't roll the dough quickly like you do when making dumplings. Baking from puff pastry with apples requires care and precision. Try not to roll out the dough before it is completely defrosted. If you start cutting or rolling out the ice cream dough, it will simply break and will not fit well in the oven.
Envelopes with apples
To prepare you will need: half a kilogram of dough, five large apples, 2 tbsp. spoons of granulated sugar, 30 grams of butter, two teaspoons of cinnamon, lemon juice.
The initial stage of preparation will be preparing the filling. Anything with apples requires that the filling be cut quite finely. The apples will need to be cut into very small cubes or strips and sprinkled with lemon juice. The next stage is frying apples in butter with the addition of cinnamon and granulated sugar.
While the apples are frying, you need to prepare the puff pastry. The recipes assume that the dough will be rolled out in a fairly thick layer. Apples give a lot of juice when cooking, so the dough should not spread during the process. One piece of dough can be divided into four or six large pieces. Roll out each part a little.
Cooled fried apples with cinnamon are placed on a piece of dough and wrapped in the form of an envelope or triangle. The process is quite fast. The puff pastry with apples will fry for about 15 minutes. Many recipes suggest preheating the oven to 220 degrees, but experts say that 180-190 degrees is enough for the dough to rise and brown.
Lazy apple pie
This recipe is even faster and simpler than the previous one. Here, puff pastry with apples is presented in the form of a large, hearty pie. To prepare you will need: 200-300 grams of puff pastry, two large apples, 2-3 tbsp. spoons of granulated sugar, a little cinnamon, a small bag of vanillin, the juice of half a lemon.
As always, cooking begins with preparing the filling. This recipe uses apple slices about half a centimeter thick. Pie is a pastry made from puff pastry with apples, which involves a fairly large amount of filling. Therefore, if two apples are not enough, add more. Remember that the filling really sticks out of the pie. It will be juicier and tastier this way. The apples will need to be flavored with vanilla, granulated sugar (powdered sugar) and cinnamon, after sprinkling with lemon juice.
As a rule, a package with dough comes with two pieces. So, from one package you should get two hearty apple pies. Each piece rolls out a little. Several cuts are made in the middle. They are needed so that the dough bakes better and rises while cooking in the oven.
Next, the filling will be applied to the cuts. There should be quite a lot of it. The filling is covered with pieces of dough on both edges and secured. The top of the pie can be brushed with egg yolk or vegetable oil. Baking time is 15-20 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 degrees.
Tarte Tatin
The French are known to be big fans of fluffy, flaky pastries. Therefore, we recommend trying their traditional apple pie made from puff pastry.
To prepare you need: 250 grams of puff pastry, 150 grams of sugar, 150 grams of butter, 5-6 apples, cinnamon.
This is why the filling should not be covered. Cooking time is 20 minutes along with the Recipe is uniquely fast.
Place a piece of melted butter on the pan. Place a piece of puff pastry onto a well-greased pan. There is apple filling on top. Apples should be cut fairly large and mixed with sugar and cinnamon. They can be laid out in stripes or arranged in a fan, circle and flower arrangement.
The pie is baked in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for ten minutes. Served both hot and cold in combination with ice cream.
Baking with apples is one of our family's favorites. And simple, and always tasty, and, as a rule, budget-friendly. Today we will prepare puff pastries with apples, raisins and cinnamon from ready-made puff pastry without yeast.
I use the same dough to make beautiful and tasty ones with canned pineapple rings; the recipe for making them is even simpler and faster. Today's apple puffs require a little fiddling, but the results are worth it. 🙂
Ingredients:(for 8 puffs)
- 1 package (500 g) yeast-free puff pastry
- 650 g sweet and sour apples
- 50 g raisins
- 30 g butter
- 3 tbsp. l. sugar + 10 g vanilla sugar
- 1 tbsp. l. lemon juice
- 1/3 tsp. cinnamon
If you don't like raisins, then use 700 g of apples for the filling.
Preparation:
Cut the package of puff pastry and leave to defrost at room temperature. You can cover it with a film or bag on top to prevent it from getting airy. While we prepare the filling, the dough will just defrost.
We sort out the raisins and pour hot water from the kettle so that they steam a little.
I prepare a very tasty filling for apple puffs according to the same principle as for and for. For the filling, I buy green sweet and sour apples such as Golden, Granny Smith or Semerenko with dense, crispy pulp. Pieces of apples of these varieties retain their shape well during heat treatment and do not become soft in puree.
Peel the apples from skins and seeds and cut them into small cubes. Add 1 tbsp. l. lemon juice and mix.
Melt butter in a frying pan and add chopped apples. Pour 3 tbsp on top. l. sugar and a bag (10 g) of vanilla sugar. Instead of vanilla sugar, you can add vanillin at the tip of a teaspoon.
Keep the frying pan over fairly high heat, stirring the contents all the time. First, the sugar will begin to melt and the apples will release juice, and quite a lot of syrup will form. Stir the apples constantly until the liquid evaporates, so that they are evenly saturated with syrup and do not burn. It is advisable to do this with a silicone spatula, delicately turning over the apple pieces and trying not to injure them.
When there is almost no liquid left, which won’t last long, add cinnamon and raisins, after draining the water.
Stir the filling for some more time until there is no liquid left at all, and as a result we get this delicious filling for puff pastries:
Set the pan aside and let it cool. Now you can turn on the oven so that it heats up to 200-220 degrees.
By this time, the puff pastry has already defrosted. We will work with one sheet, and leave the second one under the film for now.
Lightly flour the table and cut the dough sheet into 4 pieces.
Let's start making puff pastries. There are two options here. If you are cooking, as they say, in a hurry, then you can not roll out the dough at all, but do it like this. First, place a full tablespoon of filling onto the dough square and connect the opposite corners. To prevent the corners from coming unglued, you need to lightly moisten them with water.
Then connect the remaining two corners, try to glue them more securely. Pinch the corners of the puff pastry with your fingers to prevent the filling from leaking out.
I took these two photos the last time I baked puff pastries just like that, quickly. 🙂
But if you have time, try making beautiful puff braids, it’s very simple.
Roll out the dough square thinly to a size of approximately 15*17 cm. Visually divide it into 3 parts and make cuts along the edges to make 8-9 strips.
Place the apple filling in the middle and begin to braid the dough strips.
We bend the remaining ends downwards.
Place the puff pastries on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Place the baking sheet in the preheated oven and bake the puff pastries until golden brown. It is difficult to say the exact time, since all ovens behave differently. My baking process took 35 minutes, yours may be longer or shorter.
If your oven bakes unevenly and the baked goods usually burn, then 15 minutes after the start of baking, place a flat container of water on the bottom of the oven.
Puff pastry, despite all the complexity of its production without the appropriate equipment, rightfully occupies first place in the “Table of Ranks” of children's preferences,
Yes, to be honest, many adults enjoy crunching golden brown pastries.
The slightly salty puff pastry provides a great contrast, adding flavor to the sweet fillings.
And among them, fruit puffs deservedly take the first place.
Puff pastry with apples - general principles of preparation
For baking puff pastry with apples from puff pastry, both yeast and yeast-free dough are suitable. You can cook any of these types yourself or buy them frozen.
The given recipes contain a description of not only a quick and simple method of preparing yeast-free puff pastry with beer, margarine and sour cream, but also a more complex one.
Before cutting, a purchased frozen semi-finished product must be thoroughly thawed so that it is easy to work with and does not break during the formation of products.
The dough is thawed directly in the package, laid out from the refrigerator compartment on the table. You cannot defrost the dough in the microwave, or by immersing the package in water, this will kill all its properties.
Puff pastry prepared independently or already thawed is rolled out into a thin rectangular layer. The thickness of the layer usually does not exceed 0.8 cm; for some products it is rolled out thinner.
Apples for puff pastries are peeled, the seeds are removed from them, cutting out the middle, and cut into slices, slices or slices. Whole apples are also baked in puff pastry.
“Apple envelopes” – puff pastry with apples made from puff pastry
Ingredients:
Half a kilo of yeast-based puff pastry;
One egg;
Granulated sugar;
300 grams of sweet autumn apples.
Cooking method:
1. Form the defrosted yeast dough into 5x5 cm squares, sprinkle with a little flour and roll out thinly.
2. Separate the yolk from the white and beat the white well with a whisk into a thick foam.
3. Brush the surface of each square well with protein foam. On top, in the center, place apples, cut into small slices, and sprinkle them with sugar. Do not add a lot of sugar, otherwise excess juice will be released, the puff pastries will burn and stick to the baking sheet.
4. Fold the apple squares into a triangle and pinch, pressing the edges tightly with your fingers.
5. Transfer the “envelopes” to a roasting pan greased with vegetable fat and leave for a quarter of an hour to rest.
6. Brush each triangle with beaten yolk and place the baked goods in the oven.
7. Bake, depending on power, for 12–15 minutes.
“Puff tongues with apples” – puff pastries with apples made from puff pastry of easy preparation
Ingredients:
Margarine “Stolichny” - 200 grams;
Egg yolk;
100 ml low-fat sour cream;
Half a kilo of white baking flour;
Fine salt - a small pinch;
Cooking method:
1. Cut the peel off the apples; if it is not very thick, you can leave it. Cut each apple lengthwise into two parts, remove the center and cut further into thin slices.
2. Mix the sifted flour with salt, add slightly softened margarine, cut into pieces. Very quickly grind everything into fine crumbs, add sour cream mixed with yolk and also quickly knead the dough. Transfer it to a bag and put it in the refrigerator to cool for a few hours.
3. Divide the cold dough into pieces, leave one, and put the rest back in the refrigerator.
4. Roll out the dough into a layer about 0.8 cm thick and cut it into rectangles of the desired size.
5. Brush each rectangle with whipped egg white, and overlap the surface of the dough with apple slices.
6. Place the puff pastries on a lightly floured baking sheet, brush the top with loose yolk and bake.
7. After a quarter of an hour, the apple puffs will be ready.
“Chocolate apples with plums and nuts in dough” – puff pastry with apples made from puff pastry in beer
Ingredients
For the test:
200 filtered light beer;
250 g margarine “Sloyka”, “For baking” or similar;
Three glasses of white flour;
Salt – 0.5 tsp.
For the filling:
250 grams of apples, sweet varieties;
300 grams of pitted plums, can be frozen;
75 grams of sugar;
Potato starch – 2 tbsp. l.;
Cocoa – 0.5 tbsp. l.;
40 grams of sweet cream butter;
Dried walnut kernels - a full 200 gram glass.
Cooking method:
1. Grate well-frozen margarine into the flour on a coarse grater, pour in cold beer, add salt and knead into a homogeneous elastic dough. Divide it into parts and, putting each in a separate bag, put it in the cold for an hour and a half.
2. Cut plums and peeled and seeded apples into small slices. Lightly crush the nuts with a rolling pin, or you can use a mortar, and mix them with potato starch and cocoa powder. Pour melted butter into the nut mixture, add chopped apples and plums and stir until smooth.
3. Take a piece of chilled dough out of the refrigerator, roll it out into a layer, which you cut into squares measuring 10x10 cm.
4. Place three teaspoons of the prepared filling in the center of each, fasten the opposite corners, forming knots, and transfer the products to a baking sheet.
5. Bake until tender golden brown.
“Apple boats” – apple puffs made from puff pastry
Ingredients:
Packaging of purchased puff pastry, yeast-free;
Macaroons – 10 pcs.;
Three small apples;
100 grams of cheese;
Granulated sugar and cinnamon.
For lubrication:
A tablespoon of milk;
A pinch of granulated sugar;
Lemon juice.
Cooking method:
1. Halve the peeled apples, remove the middle and sprinkle lemon juice on all sides to prevent them from darkening. Cut each half into a fan.
2. Prepare an apple-shaped template from paper and cut out blanks from the thawed dough using it.
3. From the remaining scraps, form double sides on the blanks. To ensure that the dough sticks well, brush the edges of the edges and pieces with water.
4. Place the cookies in a bag and roll them with a rolling pin until they turn into crumbs.
5. Sprinkle the inside of the workpieces with the resulting crumbs, and place small pieces of cheese on top of them. Place the apple with the rounded side up on the cheese and sprinkle it with a mixture of cinnamon and granulated sugar.
6. Brush the apples with the yolk whipped with milk and sugar. Bake for 20 minutes.
“Tea rose” – puff pastry with apples made from homemade puff pastry
Ingredients:
A kilogram of wheat flour;
A glass of ice-cold boiled water (250 ml);
Butter 72% fat – 500 grams;
10 gr. evaporated salt;
800 grams of apples;
A mixture of ground cinnamon and a quarter cup of sugar.
Cooking method:
1. Combine the sifted flour with fine table salt, add two tablespoons. tablespoons of softened, not melted, butter and knead the dough, which is not too tight, gradually adding ice water while kneading.
2. Having formed the dough into a lump, knead it again and roll it out on a floured table into a rectangle one and a half centimeters thick.
3. Cut the cold butter into small thin rectangles, up to 0.5 cm high, and place it in the center of the rolled out dough into a square, and wrap its edges with an envelope. Remove the dough, cover with a linen towel for twenty minutes in the cold.
4. Roll out the cold dough with a rolling pin, away from you, into a long rectangle. Try to do this so that the dough does not break and the oil does not come to the top. Fold the edges towards the middle without overlapping them, and again roll out the resulting square in the same way and fold it as well. Refrigerate the dough again. This procedure with the test must be done at least three times.
5. After the last repetition, roll out the dough into a large, even layer (up to 0.5 cm) and cut it into 3x15 cm strips.
6. Closer to the middle of each strip, place apples cut into thin, almost transparent slices nearby. The rounded part of the plates should protrude slightly beyond the edge of the strip. Sprinkle a little mixture of cinnamon and sugar on top of the apples.
7. Roll the strips into rolls, form them into roses and secure by piercing them through with a wooden toothpick.
8. Bake these roses until golden brown, placing them in a preheated oven.
“Vanilla slice” – puff pastry with apples
Ingredients:
A small tin of Sprite;
Two packages of yeast puff pastry;
Two small apples;
200 grams of granulated sugar;
Butter – 300 grams;
Ground cinnamon, vanillin.
Cooking method:
1. An hour before cooking, place the semi-finished product on the table to thaw.
2. When it thaws and becomes soft, roll it out slightly, try to get a rectangular shaped layer.
3. Cut it into small 5x10 cm rectangles and cut each diagonally.
4. Place a small slice of apple without peel on the wide side of the triangle formed when cutting the dough, and roll it into a roll. Place it on a baking sheet with low sides.
5. Dissolve sugar mixed with vanillin in melted butter and pour this mixture over the puff pastries.
6. Pour Sprite on top and sprinkle with ground cinnamon. Bake for up to half an hour.
“Golden Paradise Apple” - puff pastry with apples made from puff pastry
Ingredients:
Puff pastry, not yeast – 1 kg;
600 grams of apples;
Liquid honey;
Egg – 1 pc.;
Cooking method:
1. Roll out the dough to a thickness of half a centimeter and cut the layer into fairly large, symmetrical rectangles - squares, rhombuses. Calculate their size so that you can wrap the entire prepared apple.
2. Cut off the lower part of a peeled apple so that it can be placed, and from the side of the tail, cut out the middle with a cone, not very wide.
3. Brush each side of the squares along the edges with egg white, and place an apple in the middle.
4. Place a little less than half a teaspoon of honey in the middle of each fruit, sprinkle cinnamon on top of the apple and, bringing the corners of the dough together, fasten them together, pinching them lightly with your fingers.
5. Place the puff pastries on a baking sheet, brush with yolk and bake. Baking time 20 min.
Apple puff pastry puffs - tricks and useful tips
To make good puff pastry yourself, use only natural fats with the highest percentage of fat content.
If the butter itself is salty, reduce the amount of salt added to the dough.
To make the dough more elastic, add a little citric acid to the water.
Fat and sour cream for kneading puff pastry must be cold, and the added liquid must be ice-cold, but without ice.
Do not sprinkle too much sugar on the apples; a lot of juice will be released. The product will not rise well and will become damp inside.
To better hold the dough together, brush its surface with whipped egg white.
If the outside of a product baked from puff pastry is brushed with a thin layer of beaten yolk, it will acquire a golden color.
Apple puff pastry made from ready-made puff pastry - a simple recipe for every day. A similar method of preparation (with cooking in starch) is typical for German cuisine. You can add cinnamon as a seasoning, but then the filling will turn out darker. I like another option - with lemon juice. Using it (and not using cinnamon) allows you to make puff pastries with a very light filling. But they taste only a little sour; this still doesn’t make them lemony.
Use of powdered sugar is optional.
Dissolve 10 g of vanilla sugar and 1 tbsp in cold water with freshly squeezed lemon juice. starch so that there are no lumps left.
Peel the apples and cut them into small cubes, removing the cores.
Mix the apples with the liquid and cook them together while stirring until the starch thickens. After this, let the filling cool. If you are in a hurry, you need to remove it from the pan onto a plate.
Before starting to prepare the puff pastries, set the oven to preheat to 200°C.
Cut a layer of puff pastry approximately the size of a baking sheet in half lengthwise and into 3 strips across. On half of each of the blanks, use the tip of a knife to cut a lattice, not reaching the edges by about 1.5 cm.
Place the filling on the side of the dough that does not have any cuts.
Press the edges of the dough on three sides. We move the puff pastries so that they do not touch each other.
Bake apple puffs from prepared puff pastry in an oven preheated to 200°C with air circulation at medium level for about 20 minutes.
If desired, you can lightly sprinkle them with powdered sugar immediately after removing them from the oven.
Enjoy your tea time with these cute apple puffs!
Ingredients:
- 5 medium apples;
- 1 sheet (200 g) ready-made puff pastry;
- 1 cup sugar;
- 4-5 tbsp. spoons of flour;
- 1 egg.
Preparation:
- Prepare the ingredients for the puff pastries. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and let it warm up to room temperature.
- If possible, choose sweet and sour tart apples, but other apples will work too.
- Peel and core the apples.
- Cut them into slices - 8-10 slices for each apple.
- Set them aside for now.
- Roll out the dough on a floured surface.
Cut the sheet of dough into 9 or 12 equal pieces. - Place 4-5 apple slices, a teaspoon of sugar and a teaspoon of flour in the middle of each puff pastry square.
- Fold the opposite ends of the dough square over the apples and fasten them well (you should get some kind of “envelopes” with apples).
- Place the puff pastries on a baking sheet, having previously covered it with foil or parchment paper and greased it with butter.
- Beat the egg in a bowl with a fork.
Using a pastry brush, brush all puff pastries with beaten egg and sprinkle with a little sugar. - Bake the apple puffs at 200 degrees Celsius for approximately 15 minutes (or until golden brown).
- Remove them from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
- Serve apple puffs warm or cold with milk, tea or coffee.
Bon appetit!
Ingredients for making apple puff pastry:
- Puff pastry without yeast - 500 g
- Egg - 1 piece
- Apple jam for filling - 200 g (Or 4 medium apples + 3 tablespoons of sugar)
How to cook:
- Unleavened dough is ideal for puff pastries, as it contains more layers.
- Place the layers of dough without packaging on a floured board, sprinkle flour on top of the dough and, covered with a towel, leave to defrost for 30 minutes.
- If you don’t have a ready-made filling, then while the dough is defrosting, peel fresh apples, cut them into cubes and mix with sugar. Let them stand in a sealed container for 15 minutes.
- When the dough becomes plastic, lightly roll the layer in one direction so as not to disturb the structure of the dough. Cut each layer into squares.
- On each square, at a distance of about 1 cm from the edge, we make cuts in the form of two corners so that they do not connect to each other (as in the photo).
- Fold one corner of the dough over to the opposite one.
- Then we also bend the second corner.
- Place the filling in the center.
- You can make puff pastries much simpler. Place the filling in the center of each square.
- We bend the opposite corners to the center and glue them together.
- Then we also glue the other opposite corners.
- Line a baking tray with baking paper or use a silicone baking mat. Place the prepared puff pastries on it.
- To give the puff pastries an appetizing color before baking, brush them with a lightly beaten egg.
- Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake until golden brown (about 20-30 minutes).
Bon appetit!
To prepare puff pastry with apples from ready-made puff pastry, I used:
- package of puff pastry (500 g)
- 8 medium-sized apples (there are more in the photo, ignore them)
- one egg
- 3 tablespoons sugar
How to cook:
- Peel the apples, cut them into halves and remove the cores.
- The dough should be defrosted by this point.
- Using a rolling pin, roll out each layer of dough one by one to half its original thickness. It is desirable to get even squares. Then cut each square into two rectangles. Place half an apple and a little sugar on the edge of each.
- Then we fasten the edges of the pie around the entire perimeter. Similarly, we “mold” the remaining puff pastries and place them on a baking sheet.
- Beat the egg with a fork. Using a pastry brush, grease the surface of the puff pastries and sprinkle them with the remaining sugar. Place the apple puffs in the oven (preheated to 200 degrees) and bake them for 25-30 minutes until golden brown.
- Let the finished puff pastries cool slightly and then transfer to a plate. Puff pastry apple puffs can be stored for 3-4 days in a sealed plastic bag, which will help prevent the dough from drying out. And before eating, you can warm up the apple puffs slightly in the microwave, then they will be as good as new again :) Bon appetit!
Ingredients:
- puff pastry yeast - 500 gr.
- apples - 4 pcs.
- sugar - 1 tbsp. l.
- cinnamon - 1/4 tsp.
- egg for lubrication
How to make apple puffs from puff pastry :
- I repeat once again that the dough must first be thawed.
Peel the apples, grate them on a coarse grater, add sugar and cinnamon and mix. Adjust the amount of sugar to your taste.
This time I had the dough in the form of square plates.Roll out the plate lengthwise and cut into small rectangles. - Place apple filling on one rectangle.
- Make cuts in other rectangles, cover the apples with them, and mold them on all sides.
- My assistant did a great job with this.
- Grease a baking tray or line it with baking paper or a Teflon sheet. Place the puff pastries on the prepared baking sheet, brush them with egg and place in the preheated oven.
- Bake at 180 0 . In 20 minutes, delicious puff pastries with apples made from puff pastry will be ready. Read more:
Ingredients:
- 150 g cottage cheese
- 75 g sugar
- 1 egg
- 6 tbsp. l. rast. oils
- 250 g flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- a pinch of salt
- 3 apples
- 1 tbsp. l. vanilla sugar
- 0.5 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tbsp. l. poppy
- 1 tbsp. l. milk
- 1 yolk
How to make apple puffs:
- The necessary ingredients are in front of you in the photo, and it is better to accurately measure everything in advance.
- Knead the curd dough. To do this, place 150 g of cottage cheese, 1 egg and 75 g of sugar in a bowl. Grind everything with a fork.
- Add 6 tbsp to the resulting mass. l. vegetable oil.
- Beat the mixture until smooth using a blender.
- Mix dry ingredients (250 g flour, 2 tsp baking powder and a pinch of salt) with a whisk.
- Pour the dry mixture into the liquid ingredients and knead the dough. If the egg is not very large, you may need less flour. Those. It’s better to add the last part of the flour gradually. The dough should be quite tight, but easily come together into one lump.
- Cover the bowl with the dough with a towel and leave for 20 minutes. At this time, prepare the apples. They need to be cut into 4 parts, cored and cut into slices. Add 1 tbsp to the bowl with apples. l. vanilla sugar and 0.5 tsp. cinnamon.
- Divide the dough into two parts. Roll each of them into a circle, trim off the excess. We cut the circle into 8 sectors, and cut each sector as shown in the photo.
- We lay out the apple slices along the wide edge and wrap them with the cut part.
- We do the same with the second part of the test. Place the pieces on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Lubricate each puff with yolk mixed with 1 tbsp. l. milk and sprinkle with poppy seeds.
- Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes.
- Ready-made puff pastries with apples are very tasty both hot and cold.
Bon appetit!
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