POPPY SEED ROLLS ; A MEMORY OF AN AMERICAN-HUNGARIAN CHRISTMAS

My mother - a stay at home mom - outdid herself around the Christmas holidays with traditional cookie recipes from Central and Eastern Europe.  I don't think we thought in terms of Polish, Hungarian, Slovak, Russian, Ruthenian, German... but it seems that traditional recipes were being carried on by the next generation.

I remember going to relatives homes where they had cookies and cakes that were different than the ones we made... it was ALL GOOD!

We never had chocolate chip cookies or shortbread, but we had lots of POPPYSEED rolls, cookies with walnuts, tarts with jams...