Mohn Hamantashen Recipe
Yield: 1 BatchRecipe by luhu.jp
Ingredients:
PASTRY
2 cup: Flour,
1 cup: Butter,
1/2 lbs: Cream cheese,
MOHN FILLING
1/2 cup: Poppy seeds,
1 cup: Walnuts, chopped fine
1 cup: Raisins, chopped fine
8 ounce: Honey,
Directions:
Sift the flour. Cream the butter and cream cheese until well blended.
Gradually add the flour, mixing and make a ball of dough. Refrigerate
overnight.
Combine the mohn filling ingredients. It may take a little more, or a
little less, than about 8 oz of honey; use enough to hold the mixture
together.
Roll out the dough (not too thin) and cut into 3-inch squares. Fill
each square with about 1 T of mohn and fold the dough square over to
make a triangle. Bake on a greased pan at 350 degrees F. until
golden brown, about 20 minutes.
NOTES:
* A triangular filled pastry -- Hamantashen are a triangular pastry,
traditionally eaten during the Jewish Holiday of Purim. Purim
celebrates the failure of the evil Haman in his attempt to
exterminate the Jews; Haman wore a three-cornered hat. Yield: Makes a
bunch.
: Difficulty: easy.
: Time: 1 hour preparation (in two 1/2 hour pieces), 20 minutes
baking. : Precision: measure the pastry ingredients carefully.
: Alan M. Marcum
: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, California
: sun!nescorna!marcum
: Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust
Source from luhu.jp
Gradually add the flour, mixing and make a ball of dough. Refrigerate
overnight.
Combine the mohn filling ingredients. It may take a little more, or a
little less, than about 8 oz of honey; use enough to hold the mixture
together.
Roll out the dough (not too thin) and cut into 3-inch squares. Fill
each square with about 1 T of mohn and fold the dough square over to
make a triangle. Bake on a greased pan at 350 degrees F. until
golden brown, about 20 minutes.
NOTES:
* A triangular filled pastry -- Hamantashen are a triangular pastry,
traditionally eaten during the Jewish Holiday of Purim. Purim
celebrates the failure of the evil Haman in his attempt to
exterminate the Jews; Haman wore a three-cornered hat. Yield: Makes a
bunch.
: Difficulty: easy.
: Time: 1 hour preparation (in two 1/2 hour pieces), 20 minutes
baking. : Precision: measure the pastry ingredients carefully.
: Alan M. Marcum
: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, California
: sun!nescorna!marcum
: Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust
Source from luhu.jp
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