Mohn Hamantashen

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Serves: 1 Batch

Ingredients:

-----------------------------------PASTRY-----------------------------------
2 c Flour
1 c Butter
1/2 lb Cream cheese

Instructions:
--------------------------------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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