Title: Grandma Sally's Hamentaschen
Categories: German Cookie
Yield: 1 Servings

		Dough-----
1 1/4	c	Melted shortening
1	c	Sugar
3		Eggs -- beaten
1		Grated lemon (whole fruit,
		Not just peel)
4	c	Flour (scant), sifted with:
1	ts	Salt -- and
3	ts	Baking powder
		Filling-----
		(fills 1/2 of dough recipe)
2	lb	Partly cooked pitted prunes
5	tb	Jelly (whatever kind you
		Have on hand)
1	c	Raisins
1		Orange or 1/2 lemon
1	c	Nuts
		Shake of cinnamon

Combine the dough ingredients to form dough. Grind the filling ingredients together with a food grinder.

Roll out the dough and cut circles with a glass. Put a spoonful of filling in the center of each circle, and fold up sides of the dough to form triangular filled cookies. Bake at 400 F until lightly browned.

I haven't actually made this recipe, but I've been enjoying the hamentaschen for years.

For poppyseed filling, I think I'd just use the solo filling from the can. I've made my own hamentaschen using various jams for filling, with some success. Good luck.

Emily Epstein 29 Sep 1994

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