5/27/2023 0 Comments Humble pie food![]() Roll dough into an almost paper-thin rectangle. Put in greased bowl, cover and let rise to double in bulk (2 hours).Ĭream butter and sugar until fluffy. Turn out on floured board and knead 10 minutes or until smooth and elastic. Stir in milk, sugar, salt, egg and shortening. ![]() Reach her at Nut Rollĭissolve yeast in water. Shelley Dunning is a Davis resident and a mom of four. And delicious.Īnd from that moment, I know that Nut Roll - Gram’s Nut Roll - is Christmas. And I can’t imagine that a pastry will actually result from all this happy mischief. As I record the magical scene, I imagine Gram is a fairy godmother, my little girls are fairies and the flour is fairy dust. Everyone is giggling and there is flour everywhere. She is surrounded by little girls in aprons matching her own and holding mini rolling pins. Her hands are sprinkling flour and rolling dough and clapping with delight. Gram sits at the head of our dining room table in a red-and-white checkered apron. One of my favorite memories and last moments captured on video of Dorothy Dunning is of our little girls, 5, 4 and 3 years old, with their beloved Gram, 90 years old. Let the dough rise in your youngest child’s bunk bed. Quadruple the dough recipe and make lots of smaller Nut Rolls to share with the people you love the most. You will need cardboard and foil and Saran Wrap.Īfter 16 years of baking Christmas Nut Roll, I suggest the following adjustments to Dorothy Dunning’s almost-perfect recipe: There will be singing of Christmas carols and, very likely, some cursing. You will need rolling pins, cake yeast and matching aprons for the photo ops. ![]() It requires a date on your December calendar and the full attention of all participants. Eileen must have been an amazing baker to have her Lemon Bars and Walnut Slices embrace Dorothy’s legendary Nut Roll.īaking Nut Roll is not a task to be marked off a list, but rather an event. My original copy of the recipe, a butter-stained photocopy of page 113 of an old University Farm Circle cookbook, displays Dorothy Dunning’s Nut Roll recipe nestled between Eileen Ojakangas’ Lemon Bars and Eileen Ojakangas’ Walnut Slice. ![]() ![]() And if there is no Nut Roll, it’s not Christmas. If it’s Christmas time, there will be Nut Roll. I don’t remember the first time I learned about Nut Roll and I also can’t remember a Christmas in the last 22 years without Nut Roll. I asked Bob if he helped in delivering the Christmas treasures and he replied, “I was too young to drive and the Nut Rolls were too heavy for me to carry.” They were then wrapped in Saran Wrap to be delivered to the Dunnings’ friends and neighbors. It was easily the most anticipated thing his mother made during the entire year, anticipated by Bobby, his siblings and every friend and neighbor who was lucky enough to receive one in the days leading up to Christmas.īy Bobby Dunning’s account, the Nut Rolls were rolled, filled, baked, frosted and placed on foil-wrapped cardboard. When my husband was growing up, it was simply called Nut Roll. You know fruit cake and caramel and peppermint candyĭivinity, fudge and bread pudding with brandy * Editor’s note: This column first ran in December of 2018. ![]()
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