Comments on: Hamantaschen II http://noshwithme.com/2008/03/hamantaschen-ii/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:17:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: laurie http://noshwithme.com/2008/03/hamantaschen-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-11539 laurie Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:49:54 +0000 http://noshwithme.com/2008/03/hamantaschen-ii/#comment-11539 Stumbled on your site. Happy Purim, a few days late. In case you were thinking of hamantashen, here's what happened to me this year. I made hamantashen on Sunday with Marcy's recipe. Except that I used the recipe for her Chanukah decorated sugar cookies, in the Chanukah section of her Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking book and kept the additional egg and baking powder amount. The recipes are similar. The hamantashen one uses more shortening and the extra egg. The liquid for the Chanukah cookies is added last while the hamantashen liquid is added before the flour. The hamantashen dough was definitely softer. Next year I plan to use the Chanukah dough and see what happens because my cookies weren't that pretty either. I was wondering if the extra egg made the dough too soft and more likely to spread. It's so strange that, while some were decent lookng, others were leaking and look...well...icky. Another interesting thing that happened: A friend of mine is allergic to walnuts. I had some leftover Clearbrook Farms apple pie filling and used it for some to give to her. Those cookies looked much prettier. I was thinking that the non-spreading chunky apples helped keep the cookies together. Next year I plan to add more walnuts to make my apricot filling firmer and see if that helps with the spreading. Maybe the oldfashioned poppy/prune fillings didn't spread as much as the apricot ones or the ones made with straight preserves.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('11539','laurie'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Stumbled on your site. Happy Purim, a few days late. In case you were thinking of hamantashen, here’s what happened to me this year. I made hamantashen on Sunday with Marcy’s recipe. Except that I used the recipe for her Chanukah decorated sugar cookies, in the Chanukah section of her Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking book and kept the additional egg and baking powder amount.

The recipes are similar. The hamantashen one uses more shortening and the extra egg. The liquid for the Chanukah cookies is added last while the hamantashen liquid is added before the flour. The hamantashen dough was definitely softer. Next year I plan to use the Chanukah dough and see what happens because my cookies weren’t that pretty either. I was wondering if the extra egg made the dough too soft and more likely to spread. It’s so strange that, while some were decent lookng, others were leaking and look…well…icky.

Another interesting thing that happened: A friend of mine is allergic to walnuts. I had some leftover Clearbrook Farms apple pie filling and used it for some to give to her. Those cookies looked much prettier. I was thinking that the non-spreading chunky apples helped keep the cookies together. Next year I plan to add more walnuts to make my apricot filling firmer and see if that helps with the spreading. Maybe the oldfashioned poppy/prune fillings didn’t spread as much as the apricot ones or the ones made with straight preserves.

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]]> By: Library Lady http://noshwithme.com/2008/03/hamantaschen-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-1546 Library Lady Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:31:15 +0000 http://noshwithme.com/2008/03/hamantaschen-ii/#comment-1546 Actually, your 'taschen look prettier than mine do. But people don't seem to care either way--because these taste so good! I use the same recipe, but I've been using all butter and I wonder if that's why my cookies have been spreading. Though since you mentioned the parchment thing and that's what I've been baking mine on, I think I'll have to keep that in mind...<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1546','Library Lady'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Actually, your ‘taschen look prettier than mine do. But people don’t seem to care either way–because these taste so good!

I use the same recipe, but I’ve been using all butter and I wonder if that’s why my cookies have been spreading. Though since you mentioned the parchment thing and that’s what I’ve been baking mine on, I think I’ll have to keep that in mind…

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]]> By: Lori Lynn @ Taste With The Eyes http://noshwithme.com/2008/03/hamantaschen-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-661 Lori Lynn @ Taste With The Eyes Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:15:44 +0000 http://noshwithme.com/2008/03/hamantaschen-ii/#comment-661 Hi Hilary - I am happy to find your site! Your hamantaschen look great to me! Ugly! No way! And I do remember a Purim song, "Oh, today, we'll merry merry be and nosh some hamantaschen..."<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('661','Lori Lynn @ Taste With The Eyes'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Hi Hilary – I am happy to find your site! Your hamantaschen look great to me! Ugly! No way!

And I do remember a Purim song, “Oh, today, we’ll merry merry be and nosh some hamantaschen…”

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]]> By: Hallie http://noshwithme.com/2008/03/hamantaschen-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-660 Hallie Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:11:10 +0000 http://noshwithme.com/2008/03/hamantaschen-ii/#comment-660 Love the new look of the site. It's wonderful. I didn't get to make hamantashen this year, but every year in hebrew school we made them. My favorite was always filled with chocolate. Let me know if you have any good passover desert recommendations, I'll have to start thinking about that soon.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('660','Hallie'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Love the new look of the site. It’s wonderful. I didn’t get to make hamantashen this year, but every year in hebrew school we made them. My favorite was always filled with chocolate. Let me know if you have any good passover desert recommendations, I’ll have to start thinking about that soon.
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]]> By: Jessica http://noshwithme.com/2008/03/hamantaschen-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-659 Jessica Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:03:52 +0000 http://noshwithme.com/2008/03/hamantaschen-ii/#comment-659 Those look good! They are mostly triangular : )<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('659','Jessica'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Those look good! They are mostly triangular : )
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]]> By: JAB http://noshwithme.com/2008/03/hamantaschen-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-658 JAB Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:46:36 +0000 http://noshwithme.com/2008/03/hamantaschen-ii/#comment-658 I really like the new look of the site!!!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('658','JAB'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> I really like the new look of the site!!!
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]]> By: TheAngelForever http://noshwithme.com/2008/03/hamantaschen-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-662 TheAngelForever Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:57:41 +0000 http://noshwithme.com/2008/03/hamantaschen-ii/#comment-662 I am glad that you posted your photos and the recipe. Personally a perfect looking Hamantaschen would scare me. Your triangular yummies look wonderful and make me wish we had the time to make them here. Maybe next year. For now I must cope with the fact that Passover is just around the corner.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('662','TheAngelForever'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> I am glad that you posted your photos and the recipe. Personally a perfect looking Hamantaschen would scare me. Your triangular yummies look wonderful and make me wish we had the time to make them here. Maybe next year. For now I must cope with the fact that Passover is just around the corner.
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