Recipe for "hamantashen"

NAME

     HAMANTASHEN - 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.

INGREDIENTS (Makes a bunch)

          PASTRY
     200 g     flour
     200 g     butter
     225       cream cheese
          MOHN FILLING
     70 g      poppy seeds
     100 g     walnuts (chopped fine)
     150 g     raisins (chopped fine)
     225 g     honey

PROCEDURE

          (1)  Sift the flour.  Cream the butter and cream cheese
               until well blended.  Gradually add the flour, mix-
               ing, and make a ball of dough.  Refrigerate  over-
               night.
          (2)  Combine the mohn filling ingredients.  It may take
               a  little  more,  or  a little less, than 225 g of
               honey; use enough to hold the mixture together.
          (3)  Roll out the dough (not too thin),  and  cut  into
               8-cm  squares.   Fill  each  square  with 15 ml of
               mohn, and fold the dough square  over  to  make  a
               triangle.
          (4)  Bake on a greased pan at 175 deg. C  until  golden
               brown, about 20 minutes.

RATING

     Difficulty: easy.  Time: 1 hour preparation (in two 1/2 hour
     pieces),  20  minutes baking.  Precision: measure the pastry
     ingredients carefully.

CONTRIBUTOR

     Alan M. Marcum
     Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, California
     sun!nescorna!marcum