{"id":3,"date":"2009-02-28T20:34:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T20:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/2009\/02\/the-best-hamentashen-ever.html"},"modified":"2009-02-28T20:34:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T20:34:40","slug":"the-best-hamentashen-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2009\/02\/the-best-hamentashen-ever.html","title":{"rendered":"The Best Hamentashen Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"phpcwryzjam\"Even though Purim is over a week away, we baked three dozen hamentashen yesterday. I am not the kind of person who typically\u00a0prepares for a holiday (or anything, for that matter) many days in advance. But we had good reason to open up\u00a0shop early – Bubbe was here. My mother makes the world’s best hamentashen. Cookie dough, prune inside (don’t even talk to me about chocolate chips and jelly you PAGAN) and overflowing with gobs of filling – exactly the way her<\/em> Bubbe made them.
\nI am not a\u00a0wonderful baker, at least not when it comes to anything that requires a delicate hand and patience. Which means, my challah is pretty good and I can churn out a tasty apple crisp, but trying to roll dough and hand-shape triangles usually leads to unattractive results. Overflowing lumpy brown jam doesn’t improve the picture, if you get my drift. So yesterday, Bubbe and the girls did a little m’dor l’dor (generation to generation) while mommy took pictures. Since Jewish cooking is a major component of the curriculum for those of us who home-shul, I’m glad my girls\u00a0had a proper teacher.<\/p>\n

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We didn't make quite this many<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I forgot to take pictures of the fruits of their labor before I wrapped them and put them in the freezer, but I’ll post them when we make our mishloach manot<\/a>.
\nAnd now, the secret recipe. This is how I wrote it down, about a million years ago.
\nDough: 3 c flour \/ 2 eggs \/ 2 tsp baking powder \/ 1 stick butter \/ 1\/2 tsp salt \/ 3\/4 c sugar
\nFilling: 1 lb pitted prunes soaked overnight in water (about an inch higher than the prunes), cook with a little sugar and cinnamon until very soft. Squeeze in a little lemon.
\nMix it all together. In a way that, you know, seems baker-y. Roll, cut and fill so they look like hamentashen. Hamayvin yavin<\/a>.
\nBake at 375 for 12-15 minutes, until lightly brown around the edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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