Annual search for decent Hamantaschen.. Any thing new?

[chompie]

Particularly looking for North of Boston... If anyone else is looking , i do know that Zuckers in Peabody makes cookie and soft ones and Larry Levines is now making their own but i thnk you have to buy a box of pre=assorted. Both places mosly have prune, poppy, rasberry, lemon and apricot. But I am still looking for some alternative places with maybe some different flavors. Henrys in Beverly said they had them the last years but wasnt sure about this year yet.. Is Lexington thru Peabody a Hamantaschen wasteland?

[BostonZest]

People were checking out with boxes and boxes of them at the Butcherie on Harvard Street in Brookline yesterday.

I was at Clear Flour too but they haven't posted their Spring holidays menu yet.

Penny
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[Allstonian]

Purim was this past weekend, and Clear Flour had hamantaschen last week. They're done already.

Boxes and boxes of them moving at the Butcherie might have been because they were on post-holiday sale.

[BostonZest]

Thanks for the additional information Allstonian! I was working on a Passover/Easter shopping column so I had my head in the wrong holiday.

I'm looking forward to seeing what Clear Flour adds to the menu for Easter-hoping for hot cross buns.

[Allstonian]

Clear Flour has been doing hot cross buns for quite a few years now, so I think you can safely expect them. When they first started making them, they were very old-school and only sold them on Good Friday! Nowadays they have them for a few days, maybe the full week leading up to Easter.

They also used to make a Colomba di Pasqua which was delicious but expensive, but I think they discontinued that a few years ago.

[Jenny Ondioline]

You should mention that Antoine's in Nonantum has superior hot cross buns.

[chompie]

I think Hamantaschen tend to linger a week or so after the holiday, kind of like how turkey sandwiches linger past thanksgiving... One day a year isnt always enough for people to get their fill of traditional holiday food.. Anyways, Beyond Beans in Wayland has still been making them and had a soft stuffed poppy seed one that was really good. Fluffy croissant type dough with a touch of the feel of a light donut with poppy seeds and thin sweet glaze on top. Very sweet but thats how poppy seed ones are.. They had just run out of prune and apricot but maybe they will make more. They also have great black and white cookies and the danish was good, but really sweet too.

[phatchris]

Newmans in Swampscott.

[lergnom]

I also like some of Clear Flour's but also Tatte, which is in Brookline and Cambridge. The problem for me is finding a dough that is flaky and a filling that's not too sweet. My wife makes the best but I eat all those.

[chompie]

thanks all! had to work Fri-Mon so couldnt get to anywhere but hubby picked up some from Stop and Shop from Lilys Bakery of Brooklyn which were actually not bad at all. Apricot a bit odd, more like papaya but otherwise good, with a slight almond flavor to the cookie and reminiscent of a Stella Doro but better. Also got a couple today from Larry Levines that werent bad either. Tomorrow Zuckers said they will probably make some of the bread dough large type as well as the cookie type so may go try to get a few more after the fact.

[Jenny Ondioline]

Heading over to Clear Flour for my annual poppy, raspberry and apricot ones. Not the chocolate, because that's just wrong.

[pinehurst]

Not North of Boston but Blacker's in Newton (on Comm Ave) has them, as does the Shaw's in Brighton and in Auburndale (store bakery), though they go fast in both Shaw's locales.