Mohn Hamantashen

Ingredients

250 gr flour
230 gr butter
230 ml cream cheese
70 gr poppy seeds
120 gr walnuts
170 gr raisins
230 ml honey

Instructions

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 8 cm 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 180ÂșC . 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 half hour pieces), 20 minutes baking. : Precision: measure the pastry ingredients carefully. : Alan M. Marcum : Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, California : sun!nescorna!marcum : Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust