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                            MOHN HAMANTASHEN

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Serving Size  : 1    Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Jewish                           Usenet

 Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
                       -----PASTRY-----
  2       c            Flour
  1       c            Butter
    1/2   lb           Cream cheese
                       -----MOHN FILLING-----
    1/2   c            Poppy seeds
  1       c            Walnuts (chopped fine)
  1       c            Raisins (chopped fine)
  8       oz           Honey

 Sift the flour.  Cream the butter and cream cheese
 until well blended. Gradually add the flour, mixing
 and make a ball of dough.  Refrigerate overnight.

 Combine the mohn filling ingredients.  It may take a
 little more, or a little less, than about 8 oz of
 honey; use enough to hold the mixture together.

 Roll out the dough (not too thin) and cut into 3-inch
 squares.  Fill each square with about 1 T of mohn and
 fold the dough square over to make a triangle.  Bake
 on a greased pan at 350 degrees F. until golden brown,
 about 20 minutes.

 NOTES:

 *  A triangular filled pastry -- Hamantashen are a
 triangular pastry, traditionally eaten during the
 Jewish Holiday of Purim.  Purim celebrates the failure
 of the evil Haman in his attempt to exterminate the
 Jews; Haman wore a three-cornered hat. Yield: Makes a
 bunch.

 : Difficulty:  easy.
 : Time:  1 hour preparation (in two 1/2 hour pieces),
 20 minutes baking. : Precision:  measure the pastry
 ingredients carefully.

 : Alan M.  Marcum
 : Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, California
 : sun!nescorna!marcum

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