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:
- Mix the flour with the margarine and the icing sugar.
- Put the yeast into hot milk, add one egg and a pinch of salt and mix them.
- Knead it and leave it in a luke-warm place for an hour.
- After that divide the paste into six pieces.
- Roll out the pieces into a shape of a rectangle.
- Mix the poppy with 400 gr. granulated sugar and the lemon’s grated rind.
Do the same with the walnut. - 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.
- 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. - Then put the tray into the oven.Bake them for 35-40 minutes on 160 Celsius.