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Default Recipe: Butter Horn Rolls (another "heirloom" recipe)

"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "jmcquown" > wrote:
>
>> I think this must have come from a magazine advertisement for
>> Philadelphia
>> Cream Cheese since she specifies that brand. Handwritten by my mother,
>> but
>> I don't remember her baking anything from scratch.
>>
>> Butter Horn Rolls
>>
>> 1 lb. Philadelphia cream cheese
>> 1 # [means a pound of] butter
>> 1 # lb. flour [4 cups]
>>
>> Mix and set in the refrigerator while making filling.
>> Filling:
>>
>> 1 lb. ground walnuts
>> 3 Tbs. butter
>> 3 Tbs. milk if necessary
>> 1 c. [something I can't decipher, looks like "seed or" or "see of"... it
>> just sort of stops there]
>>
>> Roll out dough. Cut in squares. Put on each 1 tsp. nut filling. Fold
>> opposite corners and bank in 450 oven until done. Use a measuring
>> teaspoon
>> just level with filling. Watch carefully or they will burn.
>>
>> Makes 8-10 or 10 doz according to size. I made them about as square as
>> this
>> [recipe] card is.
>>
>> Jill

>
> I'm guessing that the undecipherable ingredient is sugar, Jill.
> Sweetening the filling would make sense. (Sounds good, by the way.)
> It looks very much like a version of kolachky.
> --
> -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ



It probably is sugar. I just can't decipher her handwriting at that point.
She was probably having cocktails with the O Wives when she wrote it down

Jill