| | Desserts | | Grandma Bette's Nut Rolls (print) | | Provided By: Mom | | Description: | | Ingredients | 4 c. flour
1/2 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
1/2 pound butter
-Sift together and work in butter well
MIX:
1 + 1/3 c. sour cream
5 egg yolks
1 t. vanilla
DISSOLVE:
1 cake fresh yeast in 3 T. lukewarm water. (Cake yeast is in the dairy section but is hard to find. 1 envelope rapid dry yeast = 2 + 1/4 teaspoons. = 1 cake fresh yeast)
NUT MIXTURE:
Grind 2# nuts till fine. Add 1 c. sugar and mix together before putting nut mixture in rolls.
| | Directions | Add yeast mixture, then add the cream and the egg yolk mixtures. Dough will seem very soft, but keep working until dough is off hands. Divide into 5 equal parts, put on greased waxed paper. Put in refrig. overnight. Roll out one ball at a time on board or counter sprinkled generously with sugar. Roll out thickness of a pie dough. Beat 5 remaining egg whites with 6 T. sugar. Add 1 t. lemon extract (don't spread clear to edges). Spread 1/5 of mixture on dough. Then spread nut mixture about 1/4" thick. Rollup tight. Bake on parchment paper on cookie sheet @325 for 25 minutes.Cool on wire racks.
| | Notes | | 1 recipe = 5 rolls I always wrap cooled rolls in saran wrap and then foil. |
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