Nosh to Your Heart's Content
Hamentashen is a treat made for Purim. Representing Hamen’s 3-corner hat, Hamentashen can be made as a yeast dough or a shortbread dough. This recipe is pareve which means that it is dairy. There are many kinds of fillings that you can use. I prefer a strawberry or apricot filling while my mother preferred the poppyseed filling called Muhn. That can be purchased at any supermarket where they sell pie filling.
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Oatmeal raisin cookies are as much as a staple in a lunch box as chocolate chip cookies. Making them with shortening makes them soft and crunchy at the same time. You won’t want to wait for them to cool down out of the oven to take a bite.
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Rugelach or nut horn is a mixture of textures that explode in your mouth. A soft pillowy dough made with butter and sour cream becomes a vehicle for a cinnamon sugar nut filling. There are many variations on fillings. You can spread jam and sprinkle it with nuts, you can use nuts and chocolate chips, apricot jam and coconut. I’ve even experimented with Key Lime preserves and pecans. The dough is so versatile the only limitation you have is in your mind.
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