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Recipe: Traditional hamantaschen

This recipe uses a sweet shortcrust pastry dough coated with colourful hundreds and thousands for a festive feel.

February 15, 2017 14:48
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1 min read

Serves: 20

www.jewishcookery.com

Make the pastry by mixing all the ingredients together in a food processor.

Wrap in cling film and flatten. Leave to rest for 30 minutes.

Add the sultanas, cinnamon, chopped walnuts, sugar, and butter to the food processor and pulse gently to combine.

Ingredients

For the pastry:
285g plain flour
150g unsalted butter or margarine
Zest of 1 lemon
2 tsp lemon juice
1 egg
75g caster sugar

For the fruit filling:
75g sultanas
50g chopped walnuts
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 dessert apple, peeled and grated
50g soft brown sugar
50g unsalted butter or margarine

For the glaze:
1 egg white lightly whisked
2 tbsp hundreds and thousands