Recipe - Russian Kolachi (Nut Rolls)

DOUGH
1 Cake yeast
1 cup Milk; warmed
1 cup Water; warmed
8 cup Flour
One fourth pound Butter; melted
One half cup Sugar
One half teaspoon Salt
3 Egg; slightly beaten

FILLING
1 pound Nuts; ground
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Milk
1 Stick butter

Add yeast to milk and water. Mix with 3 cups of the flour. Let stand 1/2
hour. Add the remainder of the flour, eggs, sugar, butter, and salt. Knead
until elastic. Let rise 2 hours until doubled in bulk.

Heat the ingredients for the filling together, blend well and let cool.

When dough is through rising, divide into 5 or 6 equal parts. Let rest 15
minutes on floured board. Roll out in long pieces, as if for jelly roll.
Fill with the filling and roll up, Put on greased cookie sheets, seam side
down (23 per pan); tuck ends under to seal. Let rise again, about 25
minutes. Bake at 350 F for 25 minutes or until golden brown.

NOTES : Nuts should be very finely ground. My mother used to use a meat
grinder to grind them. I use a food processor.
Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #962 by shade liveoak@polaris.net on Dec
22, 1997