{"id":27,"date":"2014-02-26T02:08:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T07:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2014-02-26T21:59:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T02:59:18","slug":"chocolate-chip-pecan-pie-hamataschen-a-southern-twist-on-an-old-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie Hamataschen: A Southern Twist on an Old Favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"chocolate chip pecan pie hamantaschen\" href=\"http:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0222.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30 aligncenter\" alt=\"IMG_0222\" src=\"http:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0222-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0222-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_0222-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last year our pecan tree had a bumper crop (enough to last us into this year as well).\u00a0 We had bags of them lying in our home, and we were ever in search of new ways to incorporate pecans into our cooking.<\/p>\n<p>As Purim approached, it seemed natural to try them in hamantaschen. Hamantaschen are three-cornered cookies baked in celebration of the Jewish festival of Purim. They are said to resemble either the ears or hat of the villain, Haman, who gets, quite literally, his just desserts by being turned into a pastry. \u00a0To pile on the puns, as we eat our hamantaschen, it\u2019s a form of \u201csweet revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While hamantaschen are traditionally filled with prune or poppy-seed filling, fruit and chocolate fillings have become popular. For years our family filled the hamantaschen with chocolate chips.\u00a0 Adding pecans seemed like a natural extension.<\/p>\n<p>Tips for making your own chocolate chip pecan pie hamantaschen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Prepare a cookie-style hamantaschen dough<\/b>. For years I have relied upon the cookie style recipe published by Gloria Kaufer Green in <i>The New Jewish Holiday Cookbook<\/i>. It uses vegetable oil.\u00a0 This has the benefit of making the dough inexpensive and also easy to work with. I always add a teaspoon or so of finely ground lemon or orange zest.<\/li>\n<li><b>Place the dough in the fridge to harden.<\/b> Don\u2019t rush this step. I like to flatten the dough into several discs before placing them in the fridge, as this makes the rolling out stage easier.<\/li>\n<li><b>Prepare a pecan pie filling, wit<\/b><b>h the addition of chocolate chips.<\/b> I based mine on a pecan pie filling found in the <i>Joy of Cooking.<\/i> Half the recipe was sufficient. When given a choice, I used dark brown sugar and dark corn syrup.\u00a0 The recipe called for toasting the pecans, which I recommend.\u00a0 I added the pecans to the mixture immediately after I toasted them, which warmed up the filling and made the chocolate chips melt slightly, to a delicious, gooey effect.<\/li>\n<li><b>Prepare the dough to be filled.<\/b>\u00a0 Roll out the dough until it is between one-quarter and one-eighth of an inch thick.\u00a0 Either use a clean, floured surface or place the dough between two sheets of waxed paper. Use a three-inch circle cutter (or a drinking glass that is as close to the size as you can get) to cut out as many circles as you can.\u00a0 Roll extra dough into a ball and\u00a0 repeat the process until almost all the dough has been turned into circles.<\/li>\n<li><b>Fill and shape your hamantaschen<\/b>.\u00a0 Place a teaspoon or so of filling into each circle (<i>don\u2019t overfill!<\/i>).\u00a0 Using slightly damp fingers, pinch a top \u201ccorner\u201d of the dough. Then, imagining an equilateral triangle, fold up the bottom \u201cside\u201d and pinch the bottom two \u201ccorners.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><b>Place on a cookie sheet and bake<\/b>.\u00a0 Follow your dough recipe for timing and temperature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year our pecan tree had a bumper crop (enough to last us into this year as well).\u00a0 We had bags of them lying in our home, and we were ever in search of new ways to incorporate pecans into our cooking. As Purim approached, it seemed natural to try them in hamantaschen. Hamantaschen are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewish-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmettorabbi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}