Rahmentashen

Picked up some hamentashen today from Shalom Bakery in Buffalo Grove. They have both the cookie style and the "poppyseed knish" style (but not the pastry variety). I thought both of these were better than Kaufman's, shown upthread. Also better than some cookie kind we got earlier this week from Max's Deli in Highland Park. Not sure where Max's gets theirs -- I don't think they do their own baking.

The Shalom cookies have a nice sandy texture to the dough and the poppyseed filling was very good. The bread-roll style features a tender, challah-like dough. I so far have tasted apricot, which was OK, and cherry, which seemed much like canned pie filling. We also picked up some rye bread, which had nice caraway flavor but was too squishy.

Shalom has closed for the sabbath but will be open on Sunday. (Purim ends at sunset Sunday.)

Shalom Kosher Bakery
1165 N Arlington Heights Road
Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
847-808-9300