So after getting confused and frustrated with the myriads of different Hamantaschen recipes out there, and making a few dud recipes, I decided to do something simple and just use plain pastry dough and jam for the filling.
Yummy, simple and quick!
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| use a cup to cut out your rounds |
Pastry Recipe
3/4 cups of either shortening or butter (chill for best results)
2 cups of sifted flour
3/4 tsp of salt
4-5 Tbsp of ice cold water
Use a knife or pastry cutter to blend dough until you can form it into a ball.
If the pastry is still cool then cut it in half, put one half in the fridge to keep cool until later. Roll the half you keep out to about 1/8in thick and use a cup to cut out round roughly 2.5in across.
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| fold #1 |
Place 1/2 Tbsp of your choice of fruit jam or other filling in the middle of the rounds and fold in a triangle shape.
As you're folding, dab little water on the inside of each corner to
seal the edges so your filling doesn't go south on you.
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| fold #2 |
to best insure that the filling stays in your pastry is to have them folded in a "pin wheel" format like the picture below. Each side should have one corner under and one over.
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| fold #3 |
Bake in the oven at 350 until filling is bubbly and pastry is golden brown roughly 20min. You can also brush pastries with a glaze of cream, water, or egg before baking if you wish. I used milk and sprinkled with a little sugar.
Have fun!
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