Christmas Horns

Bohemian Horns
5 cups flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 pound butter
1 cake yeast
3 egg yolks beaten

Filling
3 egg whites, whipped
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 pound ground nuts (walnuts)

Combine flour sugar and salt. Cut in yeast and butter as for pie dough. Add milk and egg yolks. Refrigerate for a few hours and then divide dough into 8 balls. Roll out the dough thin and cut into triangle. It's easy to make eight  from each ball of dough.

Put a nice amount of filling on the wide end of the triangle and roll up. Bake at 375 for 25 minutes.

Notes: I used dry yeast and proofed it in 1/4 cup water. I cut in the butter with the sugar and salt. I added the yeast and eggs and milk together.  When I rolled out the dough I used a ruler as a guide for the size of the circle. I made a 13 1/2 inch circle almost intuitively each time. That made for a decent crescent. For the filling I used about 1 teaspoon per crescent.  This recipe makes 64 pastries.