Nut Rolls
When I was a girl, I loved to visit Aunt T. and Uncle H. at Christmas time. They were fun to visit any time, but at Christmas, Uncle H. would make nut rolls. I don't remember that I was ever at their house while he was making them but some time before Christmas, he would make a huge batch of nut rolls. I think it took a lot of time to make them. Of all the cookies and confections they offered guests, the nut rolls were my favorite.
I've seldom had such nut rolls anywhere else but at their house. They were about three inches long, filled with ground nuts, --a small square with two opposite ends wrapped over the filling. I never learned to make them for myself.
Recently I was asked to buy something from a school fund raiser. One of the things offered was a nut log and that's what I ordered, remembering the wonderful nut rolls of long ago when my uncle was alive. The nut log, when it arrived, was a big disappointment. It's not at all like what I remembered. It is a bread dough spread with the ground nut filling and rolled up as one would do a cinnamon loaf. I guess it's OK, but I was hoping for a treat that would be as good as my uncle's holiday nut rolls.
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NJ
at 12/27/2004 12:06:02 PM- One of our sons got a recipe for nut rolls that was, if not the same, was very like what Uncle H. used to make. It was a very worky recipe! I never tried to make it. I think maybe the dough called for yeast, and just the sheer act of rolling it out, cutting the squares, putting the filling in it, etc., would take a large chunk of time. However, I may want to consider doing something like this next month when I'll have large chunks of time to deal with.
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Hi NJ
I wonder if their recipe is floating around anywhere? Wouldn't it be nice to make the real thing for yourself one of these days?