Hamentaschens: Open or Closed?

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    Lightbrite
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    Do you open or close the tops of your hamentaschen?

    #1226056
    Joseph
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    I never saw a closed one.

    #1226057
    Lightbrite
    Participant

    The kind that is pinched shut where the dough covers the filling

    The filling is hidden inside

    #1226058
    Nechomah
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    It’s very hard to keep the hamantaschen closed. When they bake, sometimes it opens up wider than you would like. To me, it’s nice when just a bit peeks through. If it is too open, then too much of the filling can bubble away as it bakes,especially yummy things like blueberries.

    #1226059
    iacisrmma
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    Both

    #1226060
    Joseph
    Participant

    Never saw such a hamantach that I recall.

    #1226061
    Ex-CTLawyer
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    Cookie Dough…open top

    Yeast Raised Dough (pastry consistency) closed because the whole hamentash gets brushed with an egg wash and a very light sprinkle of poppy seeds

    #1226062
    huju
    Participant

    Open hamantaschen. Closed coffin.

    #1226063
    Lightbrite
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    Open Sesame. Closed Hamentaschen.

    #1226064
    Lightbrite
    Participant

    Joseph: Google it and you shall recall.

    Nechomah: Awww now all these warm memories are coming up of opening closed hamentaschens with bubbly centers steaming from the oven.

    Yumm!

    #1226065
    I. M. Shluffin
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    Made pop tart hamantaschen tonight – two triangles of dough on top of each other, filled with jelly and pinched closed all around the sides with a fork. Topped it with icing and sprinkles. SO good.

    #1226066
    Lightbrite
    Participant

    IMS: That’s such a cute idea 🙂 🙂 🙂

    Thanks for sharing!

    #1226067
    huju
    Participant

    The Kosher Products Safety Commission once recalled closed hamantaschen because they exploded when they were bitten.

    #1226068
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    Are there people who actually like hamantashen?

    #1226069
    rebshidduch
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    I want hamenteschen! I did not have any!

    #1226070
    iacisrmma
    Participant

    LU: Depending on the filling, YES (purposely shouting). My wife makes a blueberry filled one and my niece makes a chocolate filled one.

    #1226071
    Meno
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    I had one one bite of a hamantashen, but it was after shkiyah.

    Was I yotzei?

    I said l’sheim yichud

    #1226072
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    Only if it was a k’zayis and if you had in mind that it was Shushan Purim and that you were eating it as a segula to be zoche to keep Shushan Purim next year in Yerushalayim Habenuya, and if you included that in the l’sheim yichud.

    The best thing to have done would have been to have eaten a second k’zayis of hamantashen after tzeis hakochavim and to have had in mind that if the first one was eaten b’zman, then the first one should count for the first day of Purim and the second one for Shushan Purim, but if it was really already Shushan Purim, then the first one should count for Shushan Purim and the second one should be tashlumim for the first day.

    #1226073
    Lightbrite
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    Lilmod Ulelamaid: Do you not like hamentaschen?

    Omgosh Hamentaschen are my FAVORITE!!!

    Poppy seed hamentaschen using the recipe from the big purple Spice and Spirit kosher cookbook. Closed, and it’s okay if some peak open.

    Hamentaschen are so good. I want them for every holiday.

    Hamentaschen instead of sufganiyot.

    Hamentaschen instead of chocolate matzah. Maybe matzah hamentaschen. Or potato-based flour hamentaschen.

    Hamentashen instead of new fruits, maybe new fruits in the hamentaschen.

    Hamentaschen challah.

    I am glad hamen lived and died because he brought us hamentaschen.

    So so YUMMY!!!

    Ditto on the YES that people actually like them.

    What else can be a hamentaschen?

    #1226074
    big deal
    Participant

    You mean there are people out there who don’t enjoy hamentaschen?

    #1226075
    Lightbrite
    Participant

    big deal: Agreed, with your question

    #1226076
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
    Participant

    I do like chocolate ones actually. And strawberry jelly ones are okay. That’s it that I can think of.

    #1243528
    Bookworm120
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    I’m late to the Purim party but I much prefer open-top hamentaschen. Unless I know for a fact that all closed-top hamentaschen have poppy seeds inside. That way, I know what flavor I’m getting.

    Something to keep in mind for next year, I guess. 😛

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    yitzymotcha
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    It’s supposed to be closed because of hester but then we’d never know the flavor when we buy them.

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