The Hamentaschen Recipe

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aquariumgirl and I spent yesterday afternoon making Hamentaschen. I've cut and pasted the recipe from her journal...for your digestive pleasure.




1/2 cup softened butter
1 tsp. grated orange rind (we used 1/3 tsp. dried, from Penzey's)
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 T orange juice
2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
various yummy fillings

Cream butter with grated orange rind. Gradually add sugar, beating until fluffy. Add egg and orange juice, beat well. Add dry ingredients and mix well. Chill about 30 minutes.

Roll out to about 1/4" thickness (or slightly less). Use drinking glass or biscuit cutter to cut circles 3-4" in diameter. Place each circle onto cookie sheet (we used a silpat, but the recipe says to use an ungreased cookie sheet) and put approximately 1 T filling in the middle. Fold into hamantaschen shape (fold inward on 3 sides, making a triangle with filling partially exposed. Pinch dough at points of triangles together to seal). Bake 15-20 minutes in a 400 degree F oven, until cookie is lightly browned.



Our fillings included a variety of jams/preserves, apple butter, pear butter and lemon curd. The lemon curd ended up kind of runny and ooozed over the edges.

There was also the hamentachen that ended up kind of uterus shaped.