Slovak Nut Bread Recipes

SLOVAK NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Mix flour, salt, and soda.
• Add egg yolks and sour cream to the flour mixture.
• Cut the dough like pie dough.
• Form the dough into four balls and refrigerate them over night.
• The next day, roll the dough with a rolling pin.
• Mix the nut filling ingredients.
• Spread, thinly on the dough.
• Roll the dough like a jelly roll.
• Brush the dough with an egg white bath.
• Place the dough on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 350 deg. for 25 minutes.

SLOVAK NUT ROLLS

Steps:

• Prepare two fillings. Mix together walnuts, 1 cup sugar, and 1/ 8 teaspoon cinnamon. In a separate bowl, mix lekvar with lemon juice and 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon.
• In a large bowl, combine 1 cup sugar, 2 cups butter or margarine, and 6 eggs. Mix well. Add sour cream, milk, flour, yeast, and salt. Beat thoroughly until dough does not stick to hands.
• Form dough into 7 or 8 balls. Roll out each ball on a lightly floured board to a rectangle.
• Brush dough with melted butter. Fill with fillings. Roll tight. Place on greased pans, and let stand for approximately 4 hours to raise before baking.
• Brush tops with beaten egg yolk just before placing in oven.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 20 to 25 minutes, or until golden brown.

KOLACKY SLOVAK NUT OR POPPY SEED ROLLS/KOLACHI PAN DULCE DE NUECES O SEMILLAS DE POPPY SLOVAKO

Steps:

• 1. Combine cream, yeast and sugar, let stand for 5 minutes.
• 2. Mix flour and butter, add yolks add yeast mixture and work with hands until dough is not sticky and hands are clean.
• 3. roll out thin, a small piece at a time. Fill with either nut filling or poppyseed filling and roll. Put on cookie sheet and set aside for about 30 minutes in a nice warm place. Let rise. Also Apricot filling is also very delicious, You can use apricot preserves if you do ot like poppyseed or nut fillings.
• 4. Bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes. Delicious Enjoy Above recipe is a Kolacky recipe that is fast. Most Kolacky take much longer because they are left to rise twice.
• 5. Poppyseed Filling: Combine all the ingredients and cook until the milk is absorbed. Spred on dough and roll up jelly roll fashion pinch edges. Let rise for 30 minutes
• 6. Walnut Filling: Course grind one pound of walnut meats, Combine with warm milk, butter, and sugar stir well with a wisk until most of the sugar is dissolved, sugar does not have to be totaly dissolved add ground nut meats and spred out on rolled dough. Roll up jelly roll fashion and pinch edges. Let rise for 30 minutes Enjoy
• 7. Will post my picture later as this is for a member as a special request. LOL
• 8. Variation: Cultural Explosion: For my Cream Cheese and Guava filling, take a four ounce package of cream cheese the small one, leave out to soften, then add 1/4 cup powdered sugar and blend in well. The cheese should be very soft to spread easily Spread this cream cheese on the dough, then take guava marmalade (Conchita, Ancel or Goya are brands I buy in the Latin food markets) Guava marmalade comes in a can. Take a large tablespoon and put a few spoonfulls of the marmalade over the cream cheese and spred all over the cream cheese. Then roll jelly roll fashion. Pinch edges or fold under so spread wont come out. Follow the recipe above and bake. Delicious.