My father didn't know what hamentashen/oznay haman were until his family arrived in Cape Town from the Belgian Congo. The Rhodesli treat for Purim was folares, a pastry dough in a cage like shape representing Haman’s (the evil protagonist of Megillat Esther) hanging noose. Encased in the cage/noose is a hard-boiled egg representing Haman’s head. Haman dies on the gallows at the end of Megillat Esther, after failing in his plot to destroy the Jews and having Mordechai hang on the gallows he constructed.
Purim Alegre!
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