Hamantaschen for Purim

Melba's Jammin said:

OK, so Purim was yesterday. Save the recipe for next year. :-P
The rest of the story, with pictures, is on my website, URL at bottom of
this post. Peter Aiken, you'll probably want to skip it -- the pictures
are just pictures, not photos. "-)

FILLINGS
2 lbs Powidl (lekvar prune butter)
1 cup raisins
1 cup chopped walnuts
lemon juice and grated peel

OR

1 1/2 cups ground poppy seeds
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup honey
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
lemon juice and grated peel

Poppy seed filling is called "mohn".

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I'll take a dozen, thank you... omit the nuts.

Sheldon

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Sheldon said:

Melba's Jammin said:

OK, so Purim was yesterday. Save the recipe for next year. :-P
The rest of the story, with pictures, is on my website, URL at bottom of
this post. Peter Aiken, you'll probably want to skip it -- the pictures
are just pictures, not photos. "-)

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

1 1/2 cups ground poppy seeds
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup honey
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
lemon juice and grated peel

Poppy seed filling is called "mohn".

"Mak" for "Our People."

Quoted message said:

http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=167301

I'll take a dozen, thank you... omit the nuts.

Sheldon

Thank you for the compliment, but, Dude, you won't take nothin'. Too
much putzing for quantity baking. It could be a fun party, though.
Assembly line work: Roll & cut. Fill and pinch. Brush with egg wash.

I liberated the last of the Apricot Butter hamantaschen after dinner
this evening.
--
-Barb
<www.jamlady.eboard.com> Updated 3-15-06, Sam I Am! Hamantaschen and
Peanut Butter cookies for Grandpa.
"If it's not worth doing to excess, it's not worth doing at all."

In article <[email hidden]>,

Melba's Jammin said:

OK, so Purim was yesterday. Save the recipe for next year. :-P
The rest of the story, with pictures, is on my website, URL at bottom of
this post. Peter Aiken, you'll probably want to skip it -- the pictures
are just pictures, not photos. "-)

Margaret's Hamantaschen

Recipe By: From Margaret Suran 3-8-2006

DOUGH
3/4 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
2 whole eggs
2 egg yolks
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 pinch salt
3 cups flour
egg wash for brushing pastries

FILLINGS
2 lbs Powidl (lekvar prune butter)
1 cup raisins
1 cup chopped walnuts
lemon juice and grated peel

OR

1 1/2 cups ground poppy seeds
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup honey
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
lemon juice and grated peel

For the dough:
Combine all ingredients except the egg wash. Form into four balls, wrap
in plastic and chill for several hours. Roll out each portion of dough
on floured board with floured rolling pin to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut out
circles with three inch round cutter or drinking glass, edges dipped
into flour.

Fill each round with about a teaspoon full of filling. Squeeze three
sides together to form a triangle. Gather up scraps of dough left after
cutting out the rounds and roll out to use it all up. Brush with egg
wash before baking. Hamantaschen are done when the edges start turning
golden.

If you want to make larger pastries, use a larger cutter and roll out to
1/4 inch thickness or as thick as you like. Use proportionally more
filling.

Clarification for preparing the Powidl/lekvar filling:

For the lekvar filling:
Combine all ingredients. No cooking involved.

For the poppyseed filling:
Bring all ingredients except lemon juice to boiling point, while
stirring. Remove from heat and add lemon juice. Cool before using.

Place the formed hamantaschen on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake at
350 degrees until the edges just begin to turn golden.

All gone.
--
-Barb
<www.jamlady.eboard.com> Updated 3-15-06, Sam I Am! Hamantaschen and
Peanut Butter cookies for Grandpa.
"If it's not worth doing to excess, it's not worth doing at all."

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Melba's Jammin said:

Quoted message said:

I'll take a dozen, thank you... omit the nuts.

Sheldon

Thank you for the compliment, but, Dude, you won't take nothin'. Too
much putzing for quantity baking. It could be a fun party, though.
Assembly line work: Roll & cut. Fill and pinch. Brush with egg wash.

And that would be different from pierohy-making _how_? They're even
in the Pirohy-Queen-approved shape (mostly)! :-)

sd, whose Hamantasch this year (yes, one, apple) came from Cecil's

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me said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Melba's Jammin said:

Quoted message said:

I'll take a dozen, thank you... omit the nuts.

Sheldon

Thank you for the compliment, but, Dude, you won't take nothin'. Too
much putzing for quantity baking. It could be a fun party, though.
Assembly line work: Roll & cut. Fill and pinch. Brush with egg wash.

And that would be different from pierohy-making _how_? They're even
in the Pirohy-Queen-approved shape (mostly)! :-)

sd, whose Hamantasch this year (yes, one, apple) came from Cecil's

Oh, cripes! I should have saved a couple for you!! They're all gone.
Sucks to be you. "-) It's harder to make a triangle from a circle
than it is from a square. :-) I wish you could have been a mouse in a
corner to see Sam at work, though. She's so darned earnest about it,
God bless her.
--
-Barb
<www.jamlady.eboard.com> Updated 3-16-06, Sam I Am! Hamantaschen and
Peanut Butter cookies for Grandpa; Church Review #9, Musgovian Soup.
"If it's not worth doing to excess, it's not worth doing at all."

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Melba's Jammin said:

Quoted message said:

sd, whose Hamantasch this year (yes, one, apple) came from Cecil's

Oh, cripes! I should have saved a couple for you!! They're all gone.
Sucks to be you. "-) It's harder to make a triangle from a circle
than it is from a square. :-) I wish you could have been a mouse in a
corner to see Sam at work, though. She's so darned earnest about it,
God bless her.

No worries. I'm sure I would have enjoyed them. The cherry-jam ones
sound especially interesting. But Girl Scout Cookies arrived
Thursday, so there is no shortage here of goodies that my doctor
would rather I didn't eat anyway. :-)

The pictures of Sam look great. It's fun to watch her progress in
the kitchen.

sd

Ohmygod, I read this as Hamantaschen for Puritans. I worked in a bakery
in Brooklyn Hts. and my co-worker called them blondes, brunettes and
redheads, for apricot, prune, and raspberry hammies, and the way he
petted them, it wasn't for puritans!