My mom learned to make these from my Dads brother who is a baker in Pittsburgh. Nothing said Christmas more clearly at our house, not candy canes or egg nog or gingerbread.
They look most interesting. I don't think I have ever had such a pastry. When I think of poppy seed rolls, it is bread rolls with poppy seeds on top that comes to mind!
@summerfield why am I not surprised you know these? No one in Wyoming or here knew of Poppy seed rolls and cakes and cookies. @anazad511 there is a company called Solo. They make something like a sweet gritty but butter from poppy seeds that we mix in cake or spread in jelly roll type desserts or use like jam in cookies. They also make an almond sweet paste and apricot cherry and raspberry fillings in cans.
Yum! I've not made or eaten poppy seed stuff for a while since my husband says they they show up as some sort of drugs if he had a random drug screening or an accident at work.
@sarasdadandmom I would send you some if I hadn't devoured them all. Now the rumor is that eating them can make you test positive for opiates, that could be true from what google tells me. As law enforcement you want to keep your results clean.
