As has become an annual tradition, the Steinhardts have once again baked Hamantaschen for Purim. In addition, ashasbecomean annualtradition , I get to bore everyone to tears with the pictures.
Sadly, this year Avraham decided to have a “teenage moment” and chose not to participate. However, we didn’t let that stop the rest of us from baking and having fun.
Thank you for sharing those, Zev! It looks like lots of fun and a great way to spend a day with your kidlets. And deep down, I’d wager Avraham missed it more than he’ll admit.
Thanks for sharing the latest batch, Zev! I love seeing how your children have grown and how much fun everyone has baking as a family. Hope Avraham rejoins the crew next year.
Oh Zev, I love this time of year! Thanks for the pics!
Since when is Avraham old enough for a “teenage moment?” Is he a teenager already? And Lisa looks like shes barely aged a day in 5 years. Jeez, I’m old…
He’s fourteen. He’s had his share of “teenage moments.”
Lisa will love to hear that. Of course, to me she’s always been the most beautiful woman in the world, but because of that, she doesn’t always believe me anymore.
I love that you do this, zev - it’s one of the things that makes this feel like a community and not just a messageboard. God’s blessings on all of you.
I was in a bakery a couple of weeks ago and saw Hamantaschen and proceeded to have a minor freak out. “Waitaminute, I never saw zev_steinhardt’s thread this year! Did he do it? How did I miss it?”
Much relief when I got home and checked a Jewish holiday calendar. :wipes brow:
Any annual tradition that combines family time with tasty baked goods gets a giant thumbs up from me. The downside is that now I’ve got a wicked bad craving for some poppyseed hamantaschen that I doubt I’ll have a chance to remedy anytime soon. Dang.
Being a Catholic girl from Pennsylvania, and attending parochial school so I barely ever even met any Jewish people, then living in North Carolina for a few years, I had never heard of these.
When we first moved to the DC area some decades ago, I frequented a food court that had, among other places, a cookie shop. I was delighted by those yummy fruit-filled triangular cookies they sold. Never quite understood the appeal of the prune or poppyseed varieties but if they had apricot, they were MINEMINEMINE!!!
So one day, I bought a couple extras, and took them home, and showed them to Typo Knig, in great delight at discovering these glorious treats and sharing them with him.
He looked at them matter of factly and said “oh yeah, hamentaschen”.
My face fell. He spoke of these as though they were as familiar as meatloaf, and about as exciting.
Then he explained their history and why he was so familiar with them.
Oh, and he did enjoy the one I brought him. He just didn’t understand why I was so excited about this “new” thing.
I need to see if I still have the recipe for hamantaschen I baked while up in East Lansing, Michigan. Actually, the deli was in Okemos, but all those towns were crammed together. I’d never made them before, but my, they were good. We had date filling and poppyseed filling.
I’ve never had them. Looks like I should remedy that deficiency post haste! Great thread and fantastic tradition.
Esther is hands down my favourite story in the Bible - Heroes, an arch-villain, a princess, peril, rescue, triumph and ironic retribution. Spot on.
I wrote a children’s play of the story of Esther, to be performed by my second and third grade Sunday school class. It was written with the sensibilities of kids in mind so when the king was choosing a bride he [del]didn’t give them a test run[/del] picked Esther out of a lineup. And of course three girls wanted the plum role so I had to draw names. We’ve done it three times now, alternating years with Daniel in the Lion’s Den. (I gave the lions speaking parts in that one!)
Whichever student has played the king, their favorite line was “Off with their heads!” when condemning the two courtiers who conspired to assasinate the king. Kids are bloodthirsty, make no mistake!
Zev, is there any chance I could get the recipe? I’ve been looking for a good stiff cookie/pastry to fill with mincemeat, but everything is too cookie, not enough pastry, or all pastry, no cookie. Those shells look perfect for it! But, on the other hand, would putting mincemeat in it be wrong? I’m pretty sure it is NOT Kosher.
I haven’t got Zev’s hamentasch recipe, but hamentaschen are pretty cookie, and not at all pastry. Some are sweeter than others, but there’s no flexibility to the dough.
Ditto!! My goodness, the last time I saw (and, see=buy) a poppyseed hamentaschen was at a bakery in the Haight in San Francisco when I was 19. To give you an idea of how long ago that was, at the time I looked much like Siouxsie Sioux. They were one of the most delicious things I have ever, ever eaten!
What kind of place does one go to for poppy seed paste, anyway?
-----> pardon my above bad grammar. I was excited.
Thanks for the pics!