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rymenhild ([personal profile] rymenhild) wrote2005-03-22 11:50 am

Thoughts on Hamantash Baking

The holiday of Purim approaches, as it does every year. The residents of my apartment are spending our spare hours assembling pirate costumes, buying liquor and baking a kind of filled cookie we call the hamantash (plural: hamantashen).

This year's thoughts on hamantash baking:

1. Poppy seed filling is a good thing.
2. Not being able to find poppy seed filling in Northern California is a bad thing.
3. Making one's own poppy seed filling is a good thing.
4. Finding hundreds of poppy seeds scattered all over the kitchen floors and counters is a bad thing.
5. If the stovetop is covered with poppy seeds, and one lights a burner, can one get high on opium inhalation?
6. Nonstick rolling pins sound like an excellent idea, but, in fact, they have some serious flaws.
7. When I roll out my sticky hamantash dough, I need some flour to stick to the rolling pin.
8. I'm out of practice at this hamantash-making thing.
9. I hope that when I make my second batch of cookies, today or tomorrow, the hamantashen are actually triangular.
10. I am thankful that blob-shaped hamantashen taste just as good as triangle-shaped hamantashen.

[identity profile] jandersoncoats.livejournal.com 2005-03-22 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
5. If the stovetop is covered with poppy seeds, and one lights a burner, can one get high on opium inhalation?

Can this work on a gas range, or do you really need an electric one?

*rummages for old hot plate from college*
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[identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com 2005-03-22 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I was using a gas range, but had no euphoric or hallucinatory symptoms. I must have done something wrong, alas.

[identity profile] prosewitch.livejournal.com 2005-03-22 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope you have fun baking (despite the trials and tribulations that inevitably seem to accompany it). I had a blast when we baked together last year... :)
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[identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com 2005-03-22 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Much fun. The trials and tribulations are the good part.

[identity profile] obopolsk.livejournal.com 2005-03-22 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee! I'm going to miss Purim this year. I hope I can convince my mother to make hamantashen when I get home this weekend. :)
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[identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com 2005-03-22 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It's all about the hamantashen, really.

[identity profile] shiduri-sour.livejournal.com 2005-03-22 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
yummy
my favorite is apricot but poppyseed is delicious too!

let me know if you are going to bake anymore and want help

s.
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[identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com 2005-03-22 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Plenty more baking to do over the next week and you're welcome to come by. The apartment's rather a mess at the moment, I'm afraid... anyway, email me (rymenhild at yahoo dot com is the address I'm willing to link online) with contact info and we'll talk. :)
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[identity profile] woodwindy.livejournal.com 2005-03-22 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm a heretic, or maybe just overly secularized, but... in my opinion, cherry is the way to go!

Poppy is clearly more fun to play with, though. ;)
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[identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com 2005-03-22 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not a fan of cherry flavoring, but we did always make it when I was a kid. We used pie filling; the trick was arranging the whole cherry so it didn't fall out of the pocket.

[identity profile] debka-notion.livejournal.com 2005-03-23 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
Heh- my favorite flavors tend to be almond-filling and blueberry. Also raspberry, but that's dull and standard-ish.
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[identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com 2005-03-24 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Almond? Never thought of that one. Intriguing.

[identity profile] carasfriendmatt.livejournal.com 2005-03-24 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Any chance that there will be hamentashen left over for your colleagues, and by colleagues I mean *me*?

I don't care what the filling is, but save me a piece, if it's not too late, and happy Purim...
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[identity profile] rymenhild.livejournal.com 2005-03-24 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm sure I could save you one or two. Or a basket. Will you be on campus on Monday?

[identity profile] ex-greythist387.livejournal.com 2005-03-30 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
Also? Yum. I split them with darkforge, who would like to say that he especially enjoyed the apricot one.