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Zilinski Nut Rolls
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Image Credit to Vectorilla
If I remember the story correctly (and no guarantees), my mother-in-law's mother clipped this recipe out of a newspaper decades ago, and it became a Christmas staple. My college friends used to ask me for this recipe when my dear MiL made it, and I've helped make it several times, too. This bread will be a tradition when my husband and I start a family, that's for sure! Rolls will keep, wrapped in foil and placed in a Ziploc bag, in the fridge for a little longer than a week. They can be shipped through the mail, too, since they are usually made around Christmastime when the weather is cold.
Ingredients for Rolls
- 8 c. flour
- 2 c. scalded milk
- 4 egg yolks, lightly beaten
- 1 c. sugar
- 1 lg. yeast or 3 env dry yeast
- ½ lb. butter
- ½ lb shortening
- 1 TBS salt
- 1 ½ tsp vanilla
Ingredients for Filling
- 4 lb ground walnuts
- 4 c. sugar
- 1 stick melted butter
- up to ¼ c. milk
- (optional) chopped Ghirardelli chocolate
Directions
- In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in one cup of the lukewarm milk. Stir well.
- In a medium bowl, mix sugar and vanilla, shortening and salt and the remaining cup of milk and stir. Cool. Add eggs; stir. Add the yeast-milk and mix well.
- In a large bowl, put in half the flour and add the contents of the medium bowl a little at a time, mixing well. Add the remaining of the flour until dough is soft and not sticky. Cover bowl and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about two hours.
- Knead dough a little to get out puffiness. Divide into six parts and let stand ten minutes. While waiting, make the nut mixture:
- Mix walnuts, sugar, melted butter and up to ¼ c. milk (enough to moisten nut mix) in a large bowl.
- Roll out the dough and spread with nut mixture. You can sprinkle the chocolate on the rolls, either alone or with the nut mixture if you'd like.
- Roll tightly and place on greased baking sheet. Let rise about an hour.
- Preheat oven to 350F. Coat rolls with egg wash (2 beaten eggs mixed with 2 TBS water).
- Bake rolls for 35-40 minutes. Brush with melted butter after baking.
