Poteca (Nut Roll) Filling

Mix in a heavy sauce pan:

1 pound nuts--put through screw-feed grinder with finest blade, then weighed

1 1/2 cups white granulated sugar

1 egg (lightly beaten)

1 cup milk (scalded, if you are so inclined)

1/4 pound butter

1 teaspoon lemon juice (or zest of 1/2 lemon)

Cook and stir until mixture thickens.  Cool.  Spread (rather heavily) on bread dough or sweet dough that has been rolled out.  Roll up as a jelly roll, seal edge and ends, butter the surface, allow to rise until double in bulk.  Bake 40 minutes @ 325 degrees Fahrenheit.  Cool before serving.  This recipe provides enough filling for 1/2 recipe of Rolla Rolls dough or Low Cholesterol, No Salt Rolla Dough.  That is, divide the whole dough recipe into 4 parts (rather than the 3 stated in the recipes), and this recipe will fill rolls made from 2 of the 4 parts.

This recipe is from Hunky Husband's late mother, who was born in Serbia (Yugoslavia).  Most of Mom S's cooking was ethnic Yugoslavian.  Hunky Husband likes to have a slice or two of this at breakfast, with a cup of milk for dipping.

Mix in a heavy sauce pan:

1 pound nuts--put through screw-feed grinder with finest blade, then weighed

1 1/2 cups white granulated sugar

1 egg (lightly beaten)

1 cup milk (scalded, if you are so inclined)

1/4 pound butter

1 teaspoon lemon juice (or zest of 1/2 lemon)

Cook and stir until mixture thickens.  Cool.  Spread (rather heavily) on bread dough or sweet dough that has been rolled out.  Roll up as a jelly roll, seal edge and ends, butter the surface, allow to rise until double in bulk.  Bake 40 minutes @ 325 degrees Fahrenheit.  Cool before serving.  This recipe provides enough filling for 1/2 recipe of Rolla Rolls dough or Low Cholesterol, No Salt Rolla Dough.  That is, divide the whole dough recipe into 4 parts (rather than the 3 stated in the recipes), and this recipe will fill rolls made from 2 of the 4 parts.

This recipe is from Hunky Husband's late mother, who was born in Serbia (Yugoslavia).  Most of Mom S's cooking was ethnic Yugoslavian.  Hunky Husband likes to have a slice or two of this at breakfast, with a cup of milk for dipping.