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- From: japlady@nwu.edu (Rebecca Radnor)
- Subject: COLLECTION: Hamantachen & poppyseed filling
- Message-ID: <D3AyDx.KLA@bonkers.taronga.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 03:44:21 GMT
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- Some recipes for Hamantashen, from various sources. For those of you who
- don't know, this is a traditional Jewish food (pastry) eaten during the
- festival of Purim. It is made in the shape of a triangle to remember the
- triangle shaped hat worn by the villian Hayman of the Queen Ester story.
-
- Hamantashen
-
- 2/3 cup butter
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2-3 cups flour
- 3 tablespoons milk
- preserves (flavoured of your choice)
-
- Cream butter and sugar. Add egg, milk, and vanilla. Blend until smooth.
- Stir in flour until softball is formed. Wrap in plastic & put in fridge
- several hours. Heat oven to 375. Roll out dough. Cut into 3inch circles,
- placespoonful of preserves in center. Bring up two sides & pinch to create
- 3 corners. Leave center open. Place on greased cookie sheet, brush with
- diluted egg yolk. Bake 10-15 minutes. Yields 36 pastries.
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- Hamantashen
-
- Dough:
- 1/4 pound margarine
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp. baking poweder
- 1/2 ts. baking soda
- 1/8 ts. salt
- 3 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp. vanilla
-
- Fruit filling:
- 1/2 lb. white raisins
- 1/2 lb pitted prunes
- 1/2 lb dried apricots
- 1 lb. Jar strawberry preserves
-
- Poppyseed Filling:
- Use canned Solo poppyseed
- about 1/4 cup honey to taste
-
- Cream Margarine and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time. Sift dry ingredients
- together. Add to mixture alternating with orange juice and vanilla. Roll
- out on floured board about 1/4 inch thick. Cut into rounds. Fill with fruit
- filling. Pinch edges together to form a triangle known as Hamen's Hat.
- Grease cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes. When serving sprinkle with
- powdered sugar.
-
- Fruit filling: grind fruit and add on pound jar of stawberry perserves and
- mix well.
-
- Poppyseed filling: Add honey to poppyseed and mix well.
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- Hamantashchen
-
- Dough:
- 1 cup shortening (NOT LARD)
- 1 1/4 cup sugar
- 6 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 tsp. lemon extract
- 1 tsp. almond extract
- 5 cups flour
- 4 tsp. baking powder
-
- Filling:
- 1 package pitted prunes
- 1 package raisins
- 1 lemon- juiced and rind
- 4 tb. any kind of jelly
- 1 cup chopped nuts
-
- Cream shortening and sugar well. Add eggs, one at a time. Add the extracts
- and fold in the flour and baking powder mixture. Chill dough. Grind
- together prunes and raisins in food mill and mix with other filling
- ingredients. Roll out dough a small piece at a time. Cut out rounds with
- cookie cutter. Put a small amount of filling in the middle of each round
- and shape into 3 corners. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes.
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-
- I'm also going to suggest you check out the New Complete International
- Jewish Cookbook by Evelyn Rose, New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.,
- 1992.
-
- That book has a bunch of recipies including: Melt in the mouth pastry
- hamantaschen, Kichel Hamantaschen, wine and walnut filled hamantaschen
- (romanian style), Parev dough hamantaschen, soured cream hamantaschen, a
- delux cheese filling, a delux walnut filling.
-
-
- Since your interest is in poppyseed filling, I"m including one of the
- poppyseed fillings from that book (there's a bunch of them).
-
- Poppyseed filling:
- 1 cup ground poppy seeds
- 1/2 cup milk or water
- 2 tbs. butter or margarine
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 level tb. golden (corn) syrup or honey
- 2 tb. sultanas or raisins
- 1 cup cake crumbs
- 1 tsp. vanilla essence
-
- Grind the poppy seeds in a nut or coffee grinder, then heat gently with all
- the other ingredients (except the crumbs and vanilla) stirring constantly
- until a thick paste is formed. Stir in crumbs and vanilla.
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