This recipe came partly through discoveries I made in my fridge, partly through inspiration found on food52.com, and partly from the holiday atmosphere in the city right now. I had found beautiful crab apples at the farmer's market a few weeks go, but then forgot about them. I re-discovered them in my fridge just before thanksgiving and, having read about cranberry apple relishes people were making on food52.com, I decided to add them to my cranberry sauce. Since I was left with so much sauce, I tried to use it up as much as I could and voila. The recipe will make more compote than necessary for the turnovers, but it is delicious as an accompaniment to turkey, on ice cream, on toast, or in pancake batter. The turnovers are really pretty as a gift put in a basket or dish and wrapped with cellophane paper.

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