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Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
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
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.
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.