This handwritten recipe was found in a packed recipe box, date unknown but one of the ingredients is Spry so it’s at least 40 years old or so. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy (front side only).

NUT ROLL
400° (1 hr)

6 cup flour
1/2 cake household yeast
1 egg
1 handful spry
1 chunk butter
more than a pt. of milk
sugar and little salt

FILLING:

2 lbs. walnuts ground fine
1 1/2 cup sugar
cinnamon
mix together

Warm a little milk, add sugar and yeast, let rise in milk, add to flour, mix, let rise a little, add spry, butter, egg, salt and rest of milk warmed. Mix to smooth dough and let rise again. After roll out thin and spread with nut mixture after buttering the dough. Roll tight and then push together. Put in pan which has been greased and buttered on top. Cover and let rise for about 1 1/2 hrs.

Bake about 1 hr. 400°.

Makes 2 loaves. Use 1/2 dough for each loaf.