Last night I went on my annual hamentashen spree. Hamentashen are a cookie traditionally made for the Jewish holiday of Purim.
I used the orange-and-oil dough recipe from Marcy Goldman’s “A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking,” to keep them parve, and her dried sour cherry and cranberry filling. (No poppy seeds here!) If that wasn’t non-traditional enough, a few I filled with Rootham’s apple peach cinnamon jam, and a few with Nutella.
By the way, should this be spelled “hamentashen” or “hamentaschen” (with the extra “c”) or some other way? I googled both this afternoon.
Hamentashen - 28,200 hits
Hamentaschen - 16, 500 hits
Hamantaschen - 47,500 hits
Hamantashen - 22,900 hits
Who knew?
