Hamantashen, the classic Purim cookies, are eagerly awaited by everyone young and old. They are versatile and can be made from a good sweet yeast dough, flaky dough or from a traditional cookie dough. The fillings can be mixed and matched. Prune butter and poppy seed are traditional but one can use any kind of jam or preserves.
Ingredients
4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup oil
juice of one lemon
rind of 1 lemon, grated
1 tsp. vanilla extract
5 cups flour
2 tsps. baking powder
Fillings:
1 pound prepared poppy seed filling
or, 1 pound lekvar (apple or prune butter)
or 1 pound strawberry or apricot preserves
Preheat oven to 350
Grease cookie sheets.
Beat eggs and sugar. Add remaining ingredients, and mix well. Divide into four parts.
Proceed to assemble and bake according to Hamantashen illustrated.
Illustrated Guide:
| 1. Prepare dough of your choice. Divide into four portions |
2. On a floured board roll out each portion to about 1/8-inch thick. Using a round bicuit or cookie cutter cut 3-inch circles. |
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3. Place 1/2 to 2/3 teaspoon of desired filling in the center of each circle.
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4. To shape into triangle, lift up right and left sides, leaving the bottom down and bring both side to meet at the center above the filling.
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5. Bring top flap down to the center to meet the two sides. Pinch edges together.
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6. Place on grease cookie sheet 1 inch apart and bake at 350 degree preheated oven for 20 minutes.
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I have eaten the cookie dough, but I miss the delicious yeast dough for the Hamantashen.
VA
Hillsboro, OR
Kempton Park Gauteng, South Africa
charlotte, nc
Parkville, MD
Lanham, Maryland/USA
To Mail the packages, I found it was good to freeze the cookies and then send priority mail in plastic and paper. They were received the next day and were very good.
Thanks for all of our help.
Tayors, SC
Dresher, Pa
To the lady in Maryland, add a little more flour to the dough, and make sure to keep the waxed paper you roll and cut the dough upon, floured well, and that will help. You want only enough stickness left so that the corners stay together and do not open during baking. A filling too thin will also open them.
I use orange rather than lemon for my recipe. I also take one egg and use the egg white with one tablespoon of water, whisked until foamy, and take a brush to LIGHTLYglaze each hamentashen
Hot Springs, AR
jhb, south africa