Have a friend looking for a good hamantashn recipe. Hers came out crumbly this year.
Our recipe is:
Preheat oven for 350°F.
Mix ½ cup oil (we use canola; use olive only if you really like the flavor) ½ cup white sugar 1 well-beaten egg ¼ cup milk (skim vs. whole irrelevant, but cream does not work)
Sift 2 ½ cups flour with 1 tablespoon baking powder ½ teaspoon salt
Combine wet and dry ingredients, knead well (if using a mixer, use a dough hook). If too dry, add second well-beaten egg for additional liquid and binding. Roll out thinly on a lightly floured surface and cut out into roughly 3-inch circles (we just use an upturned glass as a cutter). Put spoonful of filling of choice in center, fold into hamantashn.
Bake on lightly oiled baking sheet until nicely browned (15–20 minutes in our oven, may vary in others). This recipe can be easily doubled or tripled: I have not tried scaling up beyond that. Yields at least 30 hamantashn by itself.
Glad you had a (mostly) good holiday!
Thank you! Purim itself starts at sunset tomorrow (Wednesday) night, but this was when my mother and I had the time for hamantashn.
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Our recipe is:
Preheat oven for 350°F.
Mix
½ cup oil (we use canola; use olive only if you really like the flavor)
½ cup white sugar
1 well-beaten egg
¼ cup milk (skim vs. whole irrelevant, but cream does not work)
Sift
2 ½ cups flour
with
1 tablespoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
Combine wet and dry ingredients, knead well (if using a mixer, use a dough hook). If too dry, add second well-beaten egg for additional liquid and binding. Roll out thinly on a lightly floured surface and cut out into roughly 3-inch circles (we just use an upturned glass as a cutter). Put spoonful of filling of choice in center, fold into hamantashn.
Bake on lightly oiled baking sheet until nicely browned (15–20 minutes in our oven, may vary in others). This recipe can be easily doubled or tripled: I have not tried scaling up beyond that. Yields at least 30 hamantashn by itself.
Glad you had a (mostly) good holiday!
Thank you! Purim itself starts at sunset tomorrow (Wednesday) night, but this was when my mother and I had the time for hamantashn.