Potato Knishes adapted from the 1965 Settlement Cookbook
Potato Knishes adapted from the 1965 Settlement Cookbook

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, potato knishes adapted from the 1965 settlement cookbook. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

The knish, a kind of stuffed bun, has an interesting history. It originated in Ukraine and Belarus, where it was known as knysh and was a kind of pirozhok usually filled with buckwheat, onions or bacon. However, it almost completely vanished from the culinary repertoire of these two countries, and it was.

Potato Knishes adapted from the 1965 Settlement Cookbook is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Potato Knishes adapted from the 1965 Settlement Cookbook is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have potato knishes adapted from the 1965 settlement cookbook using 11 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Potato Knishes adapted from the 1965 Settlement Cookbook:
  1. Get Dough
  2. Make ready 1 cup flour
  3. Make ready 4 tbsp vegetable oil
  4. Take 6 tbsp water
  5. Prepare 1 pinch salt
  6. Take Filling
  7. Prepare 2 1/2 cup mashed potatoes
  8. Get 1 egg
  9. Take 1 salt and pepper
  10. Make ready 1 melted butter
  11. Prepare 1 small grated onion (optional)

Brush the knishes with the egg wash. This recipe is adapted from the book by Joan Nathan, Jewish Cooking in America. This Jewish potato knish recipe is a baked dumpling similar to a Mexican empanada, a British pasty, a Russian pirozhki and an Italian calzone. The knishes can be individually quick frozen on baking sheets and transferred to freezer bags for storage if desired.

Steps to make Potato Knishes adapted from the 1965 Settlement Cookbook:
  1. For the dough
  2. Divide flour into 2 equal portions, (1/2 cup each).
  3. Put half of the flour into a mixing bowl and stir in oil with a fork.
  4. Add water and salt and mix until the mixture forms a dough.
  5. Toss on a floured board, work in remaining flour, and knead until the dough is smooth and elastic.
  6. Cover and chill for at least 1 hour.
  7. For the filling.
  8. Combine mashed potatoes, egg, salt and pepper.
  9. Fry onion in butter until soft but not brown, and add to potato mixture.
  10. Roll the dough out on a board as thin as possible
  11. Pull and stretch it into a long rectangle.
  12. Cut into 3 inch circles.
  13. Put a tablespoon of filing onto each circle.
  14. Draw the edges of the circle together over the filling and punch together to seal.
  15. Brush with Chicken Fat, butter or vegetarian margerine
  16. Bake on a greased baking sheet at 350°F Fahrenheit about 45 minutes until dough is well browned..

My book, Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food, also contains the recipe from my favorite knishery, Mrs. Knishes are turnovers stuffed with different fillings. The dough for knishes has many variations. Very often the dough is made with flour and butter, or the knish dough is made of flour and mashed potatoes, and in the most traditional form it is just made entirely of mashed potatoes. Classic Potato Knish Dough and technique adapted, just barely, from Joe Pastry.

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