Laugardagssnúðarnir

Source: timarit.is

Saturday rolls

This recipe originally comes from an Icelandic newspaper from February 1960.

“Saturday” means “Laugardagur” in Icelandic, literally “washing day”. Traditionally, washing was done on Saturday, both the laundry and the people themselves.

Since the housewives were busy doing laundry that day, the newspaper recommended that they quickly bake these quick, very filling rolls on Saturday morning and serve them to the family before their mother went to do the laundry and didn't have time to cook for lunch. And if she were lucky, there might be one last rolls left for the housewife on Sunday... well then - meal!


Ingredients for approx. 18 rolls

500 g flour
50 g sugar
1 pack of dry yeast
1 tsp salt
250 ml lukewarm milk
75 g melted margarine
1 egg

100 g butter
100 g sugar
2 tsp cinnamon

250 powdered sugar
250 g cream cheese
120 g margarine
1 tsp ground vanilla


Preparation

Mix the flour with the sugar, salt and dry yeast.

Add the lukewarm milk and melted margarine and stir.

Finally add the egg.

Knead the dough thoroughly and let it rise in a warm place for about 1/2 hour.

Then roll out the dough flat (approx. 25 cm x 35 cm).

Mix the sugar with the margarine and cinnamon until creamy...

...and spread on the rolled out dough.

Then roll up the dough as tightly as possible over the long side and cut into slices approx. 2 cm thick...

...and then let the rolls rise covered for another 1/4 hour. In the meantime, preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) upper/lower heat.

Then bake the rolls at 350 °F (180 °C) for about 15 minutes until they are golden brown.

Take the rolls out of the oven.

Mix the powdered sugar, cream cheese, margarine and vanilla together and pour about 1 teaspoon of the mixture onto the still warm rolls.

...and put about 1 teaspoon of the mixture on each of the still warm rolls.

Then carefully place the rolls in the refrigerator so that the coating becomes somewhat firm and serve well chilled.

By the way - the Old Icelandic winter month of Góa begins on Sunday between February 18th and 24th. On the first day of this month, Iceland traditionally celebrates Konudagur, or "Wives' Day". With this in mind, today on Sunday, February 19, 2017 - Happy Wife's Day everyone! Til hamingju með konudaginn!





[Translated from here.]