Dough: In a large bowl, mix flour, sugar and salt. Cut margarine into mixture until completely incorporated. Add egg yolks, evaporated milk, fermented yeast, lemon juice and vanilla. Stir with spoon.

It happens in Milford, Conn., and in Madrid, and tonight, it will happen in Jane Rothrock's Glen Allen kitchen, as she opens a bottle of wine and hooks up a vintage nut grinder to her granite island.

Maryjane Ingersoll has memories of the Hungarian nut rolls that her grandmother Mary Horvath made from an old family recipe, using a special loaf pan. “She immigrated from Hungary in 1906 at the age ...