Apricot and Raspberry Hamantaschen - BriarPatch Food Co-op

Apricot and Raspberry Hamantaschen - BriarPatch Food Co-op

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Makes about 30 cookies The traditional cookie of the Jewish holiday Purim (this year on March 16th), celebrates the salvation of the Jewish people from the Persian prime minister Haman’s plot to...

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Ingredients

  • DOUGH
  • 2 ½ sticks unsalted butter
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 3 cups pastry flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • Juice from half a medium sized orange, plus its zest
  • FILLING
  • 1 cup toasted walnuts (or omit and substitute with ½ cup jam)
  • ½ cup light brown sugar
  • 1/4 tsp almond, vanilla or orange extract
  • 1 Tbsp your favorite brandy or cognac
  • 4 dried apricots, roughly chopped ½ cup apricot jam and ½ cup raspberry jam

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