# Hungarian nut rolls **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [November 28, 2024, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889 "2024-11-28T02:31:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889/1 "2024-11-28T02:31:10Z")
I just picked up one. Here in Cleveland they are an essential part of Thanksgiving and Christmas. I know they are popular with the European communities in the Great Lakes area. But I have learned that a lot of foods that I take for granted in NE Ohio are not necessary nationwide. What do the dopers say? Is this delicious dessert part of your Thanksgiving elsewhere? > **[Nut roll](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_roll)** > > A nut roll is a pastry consisting of a sweet yeast dough (usually using milk) that is rolled out very thin, spread with a nut paste made from ground nuts and a sweetener like honey, then rolled up into a log shape. This 'log' is either left long and straight or is often bent into a horseshoe shape, egg washed, baked, and then sliced crosswise. Nut rolls resemble a jelly roll (Swiss roll) but usually with more layers of dough and filling, and resemble strudels but with fewer and less delicate Nu... ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889/2 "2024-11-28T03:22:14Z")
My Hungarian-born grandmother left the family a number of very good recipes, but sadly this wasn’t one of them. I’ve never heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889/3 "2024-11-28T03:31:48Z")
My grandmother made kifli which were halfmoon pastries. Two varieties: makos and dios. Makos are poppy seed filled (my fav!) and dios are a walnut filling. Yum! She also made what she called fank. It was pastry dough that was rolled thin, cut into a long diamond shape with a slit in the middle. One of the long points of the diamond is pull through the slit so you end up with a twist in the middle. It was fried, then dusted with powdered sugar. Good, but not as good as the kifli. ETA: Oh, and my grandmother lived all her life in the US in Ohio. She emigrated as a young teen from Gyor. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889/4 "2024-11-28T03:39:39Z")
Ohio here. Yep, love it. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889/5 "2024-11-28T05:23:18Z")
_Diós bejgli_ in Hungarian (if you want to search for recipes under the original name.) You can find the Poilsh version of them here in Chicago. More popular is the poppy seed variant (also popular in Hungary as _mákos beijgli_.) Best is to have one of each at the table! 🙂 But, alas, it is not part of our Thanksgiving Day tradition here, though now I would like to make it one. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889/6 "2024-11-28T05:44:46Z")
Are they like [rugelach](https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/10115/rugelach/)? Rugelach, I know. “Hungarian nut rolls” are unfamiliar to me. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889/7 "2024-11-28T14:05:49Z")
My mom (Jewish) always made rugelach (she called them nut horns). Our Polish friends make nut rolls that are the same. My gf makes a nut roll variant with apricot filling. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889/8 "2024-11-28T17:53:17Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > nut roll variant with apricot filling Yum! I like rugelach okay - for some reason I’ve always had friends who are into making it - but the apricot variant sounds like something I’d find superior to the original. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889/9 "2024-11-28T18:31:50Z")
I’ve found rugelach dough to be a little bit softer and a little bit thicker than on the kifli my grandmother made. I find it hard to find decent rugelach … even at Jewish delis. And I’ve never seen a poppy seed one. > [@pulykamell](#): > > _Diós bejgli_ in Hungarian (if you want to search for recipes under the original name.) You can find the Poilsh version of them here in Chicago. More popular is the poppy seed variant (also popular in Hungary as _mákos beijgli_.) Yeah, as I said two posts above yours. Though my grandmother’s pastries were called kifli. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889/10 "2024-11-28T18:37:51Z")
Sounds similar to babka, which my wife makes at this time of year. Many Slavic cultures have something similar. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889/11 "2024-11-28T19:19:52Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > the apricot variant sounds like something I’d find superior to the original. Yep, when my mom made them both, the apricots would be gone quickly. Then the nut ones would be eaten. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889/12 "2024-11-28T19:33:43Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Sounds similar to babka, which my wife makes at this time of year. Isn’t babka a whole cake? All I’ve been talking about are individual servings. And they’re filled pastries. Babkas are flavored, but they’re not “filled,” are they? ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889/13 "2024-11-28T19:40:31Z")
A friend’s wife made one for their holiday party last year. So yes, I’ve had it once. It was called that, and sounds like that. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889/14 "2024-11-28T19:43:02Z")
Individual pastries? Didn’t know babka came like that. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889/15 "2024-11-28T22:40:07Z")
Yeah, kifli are the small pastries, bejgli are the logs that you cut into slices. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889/16 "2024-11-28T22:52:25Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > All I’ve been talking about are individual servings. Yeah, my bad. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2024, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889/17 "2024-11-28T23:01:26Z")
My (Cleveland) Boy Scout troop used to make nut rolls as a fundraiser, but I have no idea if they were Hungarian. We used meringue as the base for the filling (and the corresponding egg yolks in the dough). ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889/18 "2024-11-29T21:46:05Z")
No biggie. Just clarifying. > [@pulykamell](#): > > Yeah, kifli are the small pastries, bejgli are the logs that you cut into slices. Cool! TIL. Unfortunately, I lived 2000 miles from my mother’s family, and we didn’t have to money to travel often. I missed out on a lot, I think.