Roszke Aka Nuthorns Recipes

MáKOS KIFLI (HUNGARIAN POPPY SEED CRESCENTS) KIPFLI / KIP

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and egg yolks; add sour cream and extract.
• Mix in flour; mix until smooth.
• Gather dough into a ball.
• Turn out onto lightly floured surface.
• With palms of hands, shape dough into a smooth roll.
• Slice dough into 48 pieces (if dough is too soft and sticky to handle, chill for a short time).
• Roll each piece into a ball (about the size of a walnut).
• Can be refrigerated overnight at this point.
• In a heavy 1 1/2 qt saucepan, combine all filling ingredients and mix together.
• Cook over low heat, stirring constantly until mixture is slightly thickened (5 minutes).
• Remove from heat and cool.
• Filling should be smooth and easy to spread, if on standing it thickens too much, stir in a little milk.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Lightly sprinkle work surface with flour or powdered sugar.
• Roll one dough ball out at a time into a circle 1/16-inch thick.
• Place 1-2 teaspoons of filling in the middle of each circle.
• Gently lifting nearest edge, roll over to cover filling (continuing to roll so that the dough overlaps on the bottom); pinch the ends slightly around the filling and shape into a crescent by curving the ends in slightly.
• Place crescent onto lightly greased cookie sheet so that the overlapped side remains on the bottom.
• In this way, make crescents from each of the remaining dough balls, sprinkling the work surface lightly between each cookie.
• Bake until lightly browned 10-15 minutes; remove to cooling racks.
• When cool, sprinkle with powdered sugar.

EPIPHANY / CHRISTMAS COOKIES AKA: WISEMEN GIFTS

Steps:

• Combine butters and sugars until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs one-at-a-time and blend well, then add vanilla.
• In a large bowl, mix dry ingredients, add to butter-egg mixture, mixing well to blend.
• Cover dough; chill for 2-3 hours.
• Unwrap chocolates (hide them from the kids and practice restraint in snitching!).
• Preheat oven to 325. Grease two cookie sheets.
• Divide dough into 1 tablespoon pieces, roll into a ball and flatten in hand.
• Place one piece of chocolate candy in center, pull cookie dough up and around, forming a ball shape.
• Place on cookie sheet and bake for 12 minutes. Cool on wire rack.
• Divide cooled cookies into three equal sets. Using a cake decorator "writing" tip OR a zipper bag with the corner cut off, filled with butter cream frosting, decorate the tops of the sets as follows:.
• Set 1 over each cookie: spiral around the top; immediately sprinkle with one of the colored sugars.
• Set 2 over each cookie: make a stylized flower shape (like a daisy or a posy); sprinkle with one of the other colors.
• Set 3: make a criss-cross woven shape; sprinkle with remaining colored sugar.
• Set cookies aside in a single layer to dry.
• Store in covered container with waxed paper between layers.
• SERVING: Include some of each color and remember the wonderful gifts of love presented to Jesus by the magi from the East. And what gift have YOU given to the Lord?.
• BRILLIANT IDEA: Place the Reeses right side up for one shape and upside down for another. DOVE bars are simply the B-E-S-T and shouldn't be squandered on wishy-washy chocolate lovers.

ROSHKY (SLOVAK COOKIES)

Steps:

• Cream together thoroughly the butter and cream cheese.
• Blend in the flour.
• If mixture is sticky add a little more flour until the dough is easy to handle.
• Divide dough into four equal balls; flatten, then wrap each in waxed paper and chill thoroughly.
• To make filling, mix together walnuts and sugar, adding enough milk or beaten egg white to make a paste-like mixture.
• One at a time, roll out each chilled piece of dough (use confectioner's sugar for rolling as you would use flour in making pastry), until a little thinner than pie dough.
• Cut into 2-inch squares.
• Put 1/2 teaspoon filling in the middle of each square.
• Roll up. Seal ends. (Mrs. Mikosz does not say if you are to roll them end-to-end like a log or corner-to-corner. I remember seeing many corner-to-corner cookies so will try both and see how they turn out - please let me know what you do too).
• With a fork, dipped in confectioner's sugar, shape into cresents.
• Bake in a preheated 375F oven, on ungreased cookie sheets, for 20 minutes, or until golden. (dharmabean shared that 15 minutes was enough in her oven - see her review).
• Cool on rack.
• Sift confectioner's sugar over the tops.

MOM'S NUT HORNS

Steps:

• Cut butter into flour in a bowl using 2 knives or a pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add sour cream and egg yolk; mix well. Shape the dough into a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate, 8 hours to overnight.
• Combine walnuts, sugar, and cinnamon in a small bowl.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease 2 baking sheets.
• Cut dough into 4 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a 1/8-inch thick circle on a lightly floured surface. Spread 1/4 of the walnut mixture on each circle; cut each circle into 12 wedge-shaped pieces with a pizza wheel.
• Shape each piece of dough into a crescent by rolling dough from the wide end of the wedge into the center. Transfer cookies carefully to the baking sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden, 20 to 25 minutes. Watch cookies carefully as they bake; their bottoms tend to brown faster than their tops.

ROSZKE AKA NUTHORNS

Steps:

• Cream Eggs and shortening Add sugar-gradually Add flour Add sourcream Melt yeast in 1/4 c.
• warm milk-add to mixture.
• Work dough (add flour if tacky) Refrigerate overnight Take out in morning-let sit for 1/2 hour Work dough Cut in 8 or 9 pieces.
• Work them.
• Roll in balls Let rise 1/2 hour-and roll and cut in squares.
• Spread filling over square and then roll like crescents.
• Let raise 1/2 hour after filled Bake for 20-25 minutes at 350 Roll in powdered sugar when cool.