Poppy seed roll and walnut roll (Christmas roll)

Ingredients: 

  • 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

Preparation: 

  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.
  5. Roll out the pieces into a shape of a rectangle.
  6. Mix the poppy with 400 gr. granulated sugar and the lemon’s grated rind.
    Do the same with the walnut.
  7. Cover the  pasta with the 1/3 of the poppy seed mixture.
  8. The other three are going to be covered with the walnut mixture. Then roll them.
  9. 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.
  10. Then put the tray into the oven.Bake them for 35-40 minutes on 160 Celsius.