Hamantaschen!

[omly]

So I realized today, that although I had thought about it I hadn't actually posted. (I do that a lot.) This weekend chaiya and I made hamantaschen. The dough was from this recipe, though the inspired marzipan-like filling made with cranberry applesauce, freshly ground almonds, and and honey was all chaiya. We also did a few with some strawberry jam salvbard and I made in June 2006, but those were a lot less interesting, though technically fine. I am really glad we went with a dairy dough; I don't think a parve dough would have been quite as tasty.*

Also I am glad to say that chaiya did narrowly avoid killing palmiz in what could have been a tragic hamantaschen-related bicycling accident, which I am sure crazybone was glad of since he was driving at the time.

*Note to self: go back over to finish up the rest of the dough if that hasn't happened already.

Comments

[pinstripers16.livejournal.com]

So nu, how did they turn out? I can never manage to keep the filling inside, it always leaks out, no matter how much I crimp the edges. One year we used chocolate chips, oh man, that was a disaster.

[omly.livejournal.com]

They were good, and despite the fact that neither one of us had made them before, none of them leaked. I think the key was keeping the dough fairly cold before baking, but would need more experimentation to confirm.