[Sca-cooks] Cookie Recipe(s) for December 7

[Lists]

At 08:12 PM 12/7/2004, you wrote:
>What's Hamantaschen?
>--maire

Hamantaschen (singular is Hamantasch) are *the* food associated with the 
Jewish holiday of Purim.  They are cookies shaped like triangles that 
represent Haman's Hat (or, in Hebrew, Oznei Haman -- Haman's ears) from the 
Book of Esther.

BTW, I should have noted that the best brand of filling to use is Solo, if 
you can find it.  Chocolate-flavored Jif makes a nice chocolate filling, 
and I've heard the same about Nutella but never tried it.  And one more 
note about the recipe -- it doubles well, with a modification or 
two.  Here's the ingredient list for the doubled recipe.  It basically adds 
only extra egg instead of two, a little extra flour, and a little orange 
juice; add the OJ with the milk.

Cindy



Hamantaschen -- Double Recipe:
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 Tablespoons milk
2 Tablespoons orange juice
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 1/2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 can of your favorite filling or jam or jelly or chocolate peanut butter 
or chocolate hazelnut spread

>Lists wrote:
>
>>Okay, so somebody else did 2 recipes on the 2nd, so I decided to do 7 on 
>>the 7th. ;-)  Actually, I was having a *really* tough time deciding, so I 
>>just sent a few extras. ;-)  Then, since I was so close, I just included 
>>the last one.
>>The first three are ones we always make for Christmas, when we make 
>>Christmas cookies.  The Pfeffernuesse recipe is very different from most 
>>Pfeffernuesse cookies -- it reminds me of a snowball.  The tassies are a 
>>family tradition of my DH's family.  They are like small pecan tarts.
>>The Choco Peanut Butter Dreams are festive and really good.  As for the 
>>other recipes, the Just Good Cookies and Rolo Cookies are personal 
>>favorites.  The peanut butter cookies are *really* easy (and the sugar 
>>cookie variation is really good, too).  And I know it's early to be 
>>thinking about Hamantaschen, (or is it ;-)), but this is the best 
>>Hamantaschen recipe I've found.