Christmas rolls

1. The poppy seed roll is a pastry consisting of a roll of sweet
yeast bread with a dense, rich, bittersweet filling of poppy
seed. An alternative filling is a paste of minced
walnuts, making it a walnut roll.
Christmas traditions
Hungarian Christmas sweets and pastries served at Christmas
time are not numerous. In general, no other pastries are
served, and the traditional candy szaloncukor, large amounts of
wrapped decorative fondant candies hung on the Christmas
tree as a decoration, also consumed during the Christmas
holidays. All Hungarian families serve both the walnut and the
poppy seed rolls, often accompanied with fruit wines, like red
currant wine.[

2. 










1 kilo flour
300 gr margarine
80 gr icing sugar
10 gr yeast
2 eggs
200 ml milk
Salt
400 gr minced poppy
400 gr minced walnut
800 gr granulated sugar
Half lemon’s grated rind

3. 1., Mix the flour with the margarine and the icing
sugar.
2., Put the yeast into hot milk, add one egg and a
pinch of salt and mix them.
3., Knead it and leave it in a luke-warm place for an
hour.
4., After that divide the paste into six pieces.
Roll out the pieces into a shape of a rectangle.

4. 5., Mix the poppy with 400 gr. granulated sugar and the
lemon’s grated rind. Do the same with the walnut.
6 ., Cover the pasta with the 1/3
of the poppy seed mixture.
The other three are going
to be covered with
the walnut mixture.
Then roll them.
Cover the pasta with the 1/3
of the poppy seed mixture

5. 7., Put them on a big tray. Spread them over with one
egg’s yolk and leave them for half an hour. Then do the
same again.
8., Then put the tray into the oven.
Bake them for 35-40 minutes on
160 Celsius.
2 poppy seed roll and 2 walnut roll