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jewblog:tikkunolamorgtfo:that-obsessed-gay-girl:rosetyler42:nonasuch:terulakimban:tikkunolamorgtfo:tikkunolamorgtfo:Still working out the kinks over at Bon Appetit, huh?Update:I’m still… kinda frustrated by the update, tbh. It’s the same article, just with some of the more flippant comments removed. The original version complained about people making their hamentaschen pareve, addresses why that’s a thing, and proceeds to say “fuckit, that’s bad and I don’t like it and you need to have butter in everything” so the recipe still uses butter. The reviews of the recipe are largely commenting about how the dough is unworkable and still has all the problems the original writer said were an issue in traditional recipes. (also, personally, I hold that if you need to glue your corners together with an egg wash, you’re making your foldovers too big (seriously? A three and a half inch circle?) and don’t know how to pinch them together properly and it makes you more likely to end up with a cookie that’s dry on the outside, especially for home bakers who bake infrequently and don’t know how to adjust cooking times and temperatures for their ovens and cookie sheets but I’m not a professional, so what would I know?)Anywho, here’s my bubbe’s recipe, because if I’m going to bitch, I’m going to try and have a solution. I’ve never had a dry hamentasch from this, but seriously, you’ve got to know your oven and gear. If you’ve got very conductive cookie sheets and/or an oven that runs hot, you will burn the bottoms unless you turn down the temperature. Keep reading@terulakimban‘s recipe looks a lot more like my family recipe (originally my great-grandmother’s, I believe) than any goyische recipe I’ve seen, right down to never being dry and the bottoms burning easily. Now I kind of want to make a batch of each and compare.Here’s ours: Keep reading@that-obsessed-gay-girl Alright. Time to address this. I admit I did not read the whole thing. But, as an Israeli Jewish, we have both parve AND dairy. Also, we call them Haman’s ears, it’s way easier than the word y'all are using. Anyways. We have both parve and dairy, and that’s okay. Some Jewish people don’t keep kosher. And that’s totally fine. So please, don’t get mad at someone saying that their Haman’s ears have to be dairy. Also, y'all’s recipes are amazing.Two things: There’s a difference of opinion about what the cookie represents. Depending on your nationality, you might believe the cookies represent Haman’s ears or his hat. Some people say his ears were cut off before he was executed, and others say he was known for wearing a tricorne hat. Neither are in the book of Esther, so it’s difficult to say. But most of us who call them Hamantaschen do so because we’re from the “hat” school of thought, hence calling them “Haman’s ears” wouldn’t make any sense for us.There are parve and dairy hamantaschen in other countries, too. Nobody is saying making dairy hamantaschen is inherently bad. The issue here is that a non-Jewish author basically wrote a whole thing about how hamantaschen recipes are bad because they don’t use butter, without acknowledging why (ie kashrut) and then proceeded to act like she was single-handedly stepping in and revamping hamantaschen for Jews when Jews already have both parve and dairy versions, anyway. We’re not mad that people are making dairy hamantaschen, we’re mad because she didn’t do any research about Jewish customs, or bother to see if there were dairy recipes already created by Jews.There are parve and dairy hamantaschen in other countries, too. Nobody is saying making dairy hamantaschen is inherently bad. The issue here is that a non-Jewish author basically wrote a whole thing about how hamantaschen recipes are bad because they don’t use butter, without acknowledging why (ie kashrut) and then proceeded to act like she was single-handedly stepping in and revamping hamantaschen for Jews when Jews already have both parve and dairy versions, anyway. We’re not mad that people are making dairy hamantaschen, we’re mad because she didn’t do any research about Jewish customs, or bother to see if there were dairy recipes already created by Jews.@that-obsessed-gay-girl do you actually think that people are mad that their pareve family recipes are being disrespected. like do you think that’s the gripe with this also, the word hamantaschen is from german?? it’s a pun. from german. they took the german mohntaschen (poppy seed pockets), and made them hamantaschen—the poppy seeds are meant to be the money haman tried to use to bribe achashverosh to give him permission to annihilate the jews. so that’s why we use the funny yiddish word; please do forgive our backwards old country ways. -- source link