Recipe for Mohn Hamantashen 
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Yield:
1 Batch
Ingredients:
Amount Ingredient
PASTRY ----------------
2 cup Flour
1 cup Butter
1/2 lb Cream cheese
----------------- MOHN FILLING ----------------
1/2 cup Poppy seeds
1 cup Walnuts (chopped fine)
1 cup Raisins (chopped fine)
Instructions:
Instructions: Sift the flour. Cream the butter and cream cheese until well blended.

Gradually add the flour, mixing and make a ball of dough. Refrigerate overnight.

Combine the mohn filling ingredients. It may take a little more, or a little less, than about 8 oz of honey; use enough to hold the mixture together.

Roll out the dough (not too thin) and cut into 3-inch squares. Fill each square with about 1 T of mohn and fold the dough square over to make a triangle. Bake on a greased pan at 350 degrees F. until golden brown, about 20 minutes.

NOTES:
* A triangular filled pastry - Hamantashen are a triangular pastry, traditionally eaten during the Jewish Holiday of Purim. Purim celebrates the failure of the evil Haman in his attempt to exterminate the Jews; Haman wore a three-cornered hat.

Yield: Makes a bunch.

Difficulty: easy.

Time: 1 hour preparation (in two 1/2 hour pieces), 20 minutes baking.

Precision: measure the pastry ingredients carefully.

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