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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A nut roll is a
pastry consisting of a sweet yeast dough that is rolled out very thin,
spread with a nut paste, then rolled up into a log, baked, and sliced
crosswise. It resembles a jelly roll (Swiss roll). Fillings commonly
have as their main ingredient ground walnuts or poppy seeds. Nut rolls
can be found in the United States and in Central European cuisines. In
the United States, "nut roll" is a more or less generic name for
pastries of this type, no matter where they originate. Nut rolls are
known also by many specific regional names, including: potica, gubana,
guban'ca, or povitica in Slovenian; orechovník in Slovak; makowiec in
Polish; Povitica,Gibanica, Orahnjäa in Croatian (walnut variant,
Makovnjäa for variant with poppy seed, in Croatia can also be made with
carob); and kalács and beigli in Hungarian.