Hamentashen

• 4 eggs
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup sugar
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• ¼ tsp orange extract or orange oil
• 4 cups flour
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• Pastry filling or jam

Beat together the eggs, oil, sugar, vanilla and orange extract until frothy and lemon-colored. Combine the flour, salt and baking powder in a food processor, add the wet ingredients and mix thoroughly.

Preheat oven to 350 °F. On a well-floured board, knead the dough by hand with more flour until smooth. Roll it out (about ⅛ inch thick) and cut out circles 3–4 inches in diameter.

Place pastry filling or jam in the center of each circle – my family likes poppy seed, prune, almond and apricot. Fold and pinch corners together to form triangles. Place on a well-greased cookie sheet and bake for around 25 minutes.

Makes about 30 hamentashen.