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Hamentashen recipe?
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Hamentashen recipe?
Does anyone have a great recipe? I really would like to make some but every recipe I see is different. I would love one that someone has experience with.
This is a friend's recipe that was handed down by her mother!
NOTE: The filling recipe makes enough for 2 batches of the dough recipe. That’s a lot of cookies! Unless you really want a lot, only make about half of the filling recipe. That’s still plenty for most people – about 100 cookies.
Dough
1 c shortening or butter
¾ c sugar
3 eggs
¼ c milk or orange juice
4 c flour
4 t baking powder
¼ t salt
1 t vanilla
Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Add sifted dry ingredients and liquid. Knead and divide into 6 hunks; flatten the hunks, wrap each in waxed paper, and chill overnight.
Filling
(Use 1 medium pack or box of each unless otherwise indicated, with pits removed)
raisins (soak in hot water & drain)
prunes (soak in hot water & drain)
apricots
dates
nuts, chopped
coconut, shredded
2 oranges, with peel & rind, cut up
honey to taste
jelly to taste
sweet wine to taste
Put all but honey, jelly and wine through a food grinder. Mix together; add honey, jelly and wine as needed. Chill overnight and taste; add sugar if needed.
Assembly & baking
Roll out a hunk of dough using combination of ½ flour ½ powdered sugar. When thin, cut with round cookie cutter about 2.5-3 inches in diameter. Put a spoonful of filling in the middle of each circle. Fold each cookie into triangular pyramid shape, using the thumbs and first fingers of both hands. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Brush with beaten egg yolk if desired. Repeat process until all dough and filling is gone (make another hunk with leftover pieces of dough as you go; chill in refrigerator until ready to use).
Bake at 350 degrees about 10-15 minutes, until lightly browned. Remove from cookie sheet and cool on wire rack.
NOTE: The filling recipe makes enough for 2 batches of the dough recipe. That’s a lot of cookies! Unless you really want a lot, only make about half of the filling recipe. That’s still plenty for most people – about 100 cookies.
Dough
1 c shortening or butter
¾ c sugar
3 eggs
¼ c milk or orange juice
4 c flour
4 t baking powder
¼ t salt
1 t vanilla
Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Add sifted dry ingredients and liquid. Knead and divide into 6 hunks; flatten the hunks, wrap each in waxed paper, and chill overnight.
Filling
(Use 1 medium pack or box of each unless otherwise indicated, with pits removed)
raisins (soak in hot water & drain)
prunes (soak in hot water & drain)
apricots
dates
nuts, chopped
coconut, shredded
2 oranges, with peel & rind, cut up
honey to taste
jelly to taste
sweet wine to taste
Put all but honey, jelly and wine through a food grinder. Mix together; add honey, jelly and wine as needed. Chill overnight and taste; add sugar if needed.
Assembly & baking
Roll out a hunk of dough using combination of ½ flour ½ powdered sugar. When thin, cut with round cookie cutter about 2.5-3 inches in diameter. Put a spoonful of filling in the middle of each circle. Fold each cookie into triangular pyramid shape, using the thumbs and first fingers of both hands. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Brush with beaten egg yolk if desired. Repeat process until all dough and filling is gone (make another hunk with leftover pieces of dough as you go; chill in refrigerator until ready to use).
Bake at 350 degrees about 10-15 minutes, until lightly browned. Remove from cookie sheet and cool on wire rack.