Nut Rolls Food

NUT ROLLS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, mix together 1 cup white sugar, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1 cup melted butter, and 3 eggs. Mix and add 1/2 pint sour cream. Mix together yeast with warm milk and 1 teaspoon sugar. Add to mixture. Add flour. Mix and knead. Divide dough into 7 equal parts.
• To Make Filling: Melt 1 cup plus 3 tablespoons butter. Add 2 cups sugar and stir to dissolve. Add to ground walnuts and mix until coated. Add ground cinnamon and vanilla extract to taste, if desired. Divide filling into 7 equal amounts.
• Roll each dough ball into rectangle. Spread slightly beaten egg white on top of dough. Spread equal amounts of filling on top of each rectangle. Roll in edges and spread edges with egg whites to seal. Then roll length wise. Brush tops with egg whites.
• Bake in a 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) preheated oven for 30 minutes or until lightly brown. Cool. These freeze well.

WALNUT NUT ROLLS (NUT ROLL)

Steps:

• Dough: Dissolve yeast in milk with sugar. Add butter, salt, and egg yolks.
• Stirring to mix. Add 2 cups flour and mix well, add remaining flour. Knead 5 minutes.
• Divide dough into 3-4 parts, cover and let rise while preparing filling.
• Filling: Heat all ingredients in a sauce pan until butter melts and sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and let cool.
• Roll out each portion of dough to an 1/8 inch thickness in a rectangle shape. Spread an equal amount of filling on each portion on dough. Roll up jelly roll fashion and let raise 15-20 minutes.
• Brush with egg whites before baking. (I accidentally forgot to do this one year and have decided we like it better without the egg wash.) Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes.
• Once cool, top with icing, if desired.
• Icing: Cream butter and egg yolk. Then add confectioner's sugar a cup at a time beating on medium speed. Add vanilla and milk 1 Tbls. at a time and beat on high until fluffy.

NUT ROLL

Steps:

• Fillings: Pecan Filling: Melt 1 cup (2 sticks) magarine over low heat.
• Stir in 1/2 cup sugar and 1/4 cup vanilla extract.
• Add 7 cups of ground pecans and blend well.
• Maple Walnut Filling: Melt 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) margarine over low heat.
• Stir in 1/2 cup sugar, 3 Tablespoons imitation maple flavor.
• Add 5 cups ground walnuts and blend well.
• Dough: In a large bowl, thoroughly mix 2 cups flour, sugar salt and undissolved yeast.
• In a sauce pan, combine sour cream, water and magarine.
• Heat over low heat until mixture is very warm (120°-130°F), margarine does not need to melt.
• Gradually add to dry ingredients and beat 2 minutes with electric mixer at medium speed, scraping bowl occasionally.
• Add eggs and 1 cup flour.
• Beat mixture at high speed for 2 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally.
• Stir in enough additional flour to make a soft dough.
• Turn dough on to a lightly floured board; knead a few times to form a ball.
• Cover dough and let rest for 10 minutes.
• Divide dough into 4 equal pieces.
• Roll each piece into a 14x12 nch rectaangle.
• Spread each piece of dough with 1/4 of the nut filling.
• Roll each one up (from the long side), as for a jelly roll.
• Seal edges.
• Place rolls on greased baking sheets, sealed edges down.
• Cover and let rise in a warm, draft free place until doubled in bulk (about 1 hour).
• Bake rolls at 350°F for about 35 minutes, or until done.
• Remove from baking sheets, and cool on wire racks.
• When cool, drizzle tops of rolls with confectioner's sugar frosting (optional).

NUT ROLL

Steps:

• Mix nut filling ingredients until smooth. Use enough canned milk in nut filling so that mixture can be spread over dough. 1 teasp. of vanilla or approx 1 capful.
• Combine: 1/2 cup canned milk.
• 2 tblsp sugar.
• Mix and heat to 110- 115 degrees.
• Add: (2) 1/4 packets of active dry yeast.
• (Note: Heat milk to 110 to 115 degrees. No more than 115 degrees otherwise yeast will not activate).
• When yeast mixture has doubled in size.
• Add: 3 egg yolks (reserve egg whites for filling), 1 egg, 1 cup sour cream, 1 teaspoons salt, 1/2 lb butter softened and 3 tblsp. sugar.
• Gradually blend in the 6 cups of flour to mixture one at a time.
• Mix and cover for 30 minutes.
• Separate dough into 4 parts.
• Roll out 1/4" thick.
• Spread filling over entire surface of dough, roll from smallest end.
• Place on an ungreased cookie sheet and let rise for one (1) hour.
• Poke fork holes on top, 1/2" apart.
• Brush with beaten egg and water (mixed) and sprinkle with sugar.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes.
• I tried something a little different. I separated the dough into 10 sections and made 10 little loaves of nutroll. Then handed them out during the holidays. Made nice holiday gifts.

CRANBERRY-NUT ROLLS

Steps:

• Stir nuts in dry skillet over medium heat until toasted, about 5 minutes. Cool.
• Mix 3 1/2 cups bread flour and next 3 ingredients in bowl of heavy-duty stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment.
• Warm milk in small saucepan over low heat until instant-read thermometer inserted into milk registers 95°F
• Add oil; remove from heat.
• Add milk mixture and 1 egg to flour mixture.
• Mix on low speed until wet coarse ball forms, about 1 minute.
• Add nuts and cranberries.
• Replace paddle attachment on mixer with dough hook and mix dough on low speed until smooth, elastic, and slightly tacky, adding more flour by tablespoonfuls as needed, about 4 minutes.
• Transfer dough to floured surface; knead 2 minutes.
• Lightly oil large bowl, shape dough into ball; place in prepared bowl, turning to coat with oil.
• Cover with plastic wrap; let dough rise at room temperature until almost doubled in volume, 1 3/4 to 2 hours.
• Line large rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Transfer dough to unfloured surface; divide into 12 equal pieces.
• Using cupped hand, roll and rotate 1 dough piece firmly on work surface until dough piece pops up into cupped hand as smooth round ball, about 6 rotations (This will make dough ball as smooth as possible; if necessary, wipe work surface with damp paper towel to help create traction) and repeat with remaining dough pieces.
• Transfer rolls to prepared baking sheet, spacing apart.
• Spray rolls with nonstick spray.
• Cover loosely with plastic wrap; let rise at room temperature until 1 1/2 times original size, about 1 1/2 hours.
• Brush rolls with egg glaze; sprinkle with raw sugar.
• Let rise 15 minutes longer.
• Meanwhile, position rack in center of oven and preheat to 425°F
• Place rolls in oven; reduce oven temperature to 400°F and bake 7 minutes. Rotate baking sheet; bake rolls until golden and slightly firm to touch, about 8 minutes longer.
• Cool completely on rack.
• DO AHEAD:
• Wrap in foil, then enclose in resealable plastic bag and freeze up to 2 weeks. Thaw rolls at room temperature. If desired, rewarm rolls wrapped in foil in 350°F oven about 10 minutes.
• * Also called turbinado or demerara sugar; available at most supermarkets.

VICTORIA SKONIECZKI'S (GRANDMOM'S) NUT ROLL (MAKOWIEC)

Steps:

• Place walnuts in a food processor. Process until roughly ground.
• Melt 3/4 cup butter in a skillet over medium heat. Stir in 1/2 cup sugar until dissolved, about 1 minute. Remove from heat. Add ground walnuts and maple flavoring; stir to combine.
• Mix 2 cups flour, yeast, 3 tablespoons sugar, and salt together in a bowl.
• Combine sour cream, 1 cup butter, and water in a saucepan over low heat. Warm until melted, about 2 minutes; do not boil. Remove from heat; let stand until cool enough to dip a finger in, about 3 minutes.
• Add sour cream mixture to the flour mixture slowly. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes, scraping the bowl as you go. Add eggs and 1 additional cup flour; stir briefly to combine. Beat on high speed for 2 minutes more. Stir in remaining flour 1 cup at a time until a soft dough forms.
• Turn dough out onto a floured surface; knead several times and roll into a ball. Let rise for 10 minutes. Grease 2 jelly roll pans.
• Divide dough into 4 pieces; roll each out to a 14x12-inch rectangle. Spread 1/4 of the filling over each rectangle, leaving a 1-inch space around all edges. Roll each up lengthwise, jelly-roll fashion; pinch seams closed. Place, seams down, on the prepared pans. Cover with a damp cloth; let rise in a warm place for 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden, about 35 minutes. Place rolls on a rack to cool completely, 2 to 3 hours.