My Grammy used to make Roly Poly.. if i am even spelling it right... it is a dough you roll out like a big pie, sprinkle lots of sugar on it and spread blueberries on it, roll it up like a log, pinch it all closed, put it in a cheese cloth bag and tie it off and put in in boiling water and cook til it is done.. then let it set just a tad bit slice it like 1 1/2" to 2 inches think in a large soup bowl and pour milk or cream over it and more sugar if u like... that was our dinner! Oh man, I have to make it now!!! maybe next week.....

Sounds yummy! Could you bake it?

What is the dough like?

don't think so, we never did... maybe you could try...

Sounds delightful! Some of the old "make do's" were so delicious. Grandmother used to take her left over pie dough and pat it out on a greased cookie sheet. Crimp an edge around on it, pour canned cream on it, sprinkle sugar, cinnamon,and dot it with butter. Baked until browned lightly. Take it out and let it sit for 5 or so min. It was flaky on the bottom and chewy on top. Yum! Mine is never quite as good but them I don't use leftover pastry,I make a whole batch just for this purpose. LOL

that is it!!!!!!!!!!!! that's the poormans pie Grammy used to make!! oh my!! was she a german lady?

Sounds delicious!

trying to find my recipe for the dough right now. it is like a between a potpie dough you boil and a pie crust.... oh my and it is sooooooo good, the milk turns purple and man all my friends were like what is that? until they tried it then they all came over when Gram came to visit!

Sounds good. Love blueberries

I sure would like the recipe (dough espcially) as my fraternal grandma used to make this, only she usede cherries. Not sure if they were fresh or the canned pie filling - too long ago to remember. She really didn't cook much that I remember but Cherry Roly Poly was something I do. Probably shouldn't have it at all with this darn diabetic thing but wouldn't mind trying maybe even a small one. Hope you (or someone) can come up with the dough recipe.

Thanks so much for that great rememberance!
Sandy in Mooresville, NC

she, your Grandma had to use fresh or it would of been a mess.. I am going to get the recipe for you. my sister just gave me a copy of it last month, as a suddle hint for me to make.. I will post it and I will email it to you !! PROMISE

this whole conversation is making my mouth water...

My Granny would make a suet crust; not healthy nowadays but one made with diced vegetable shortening would likely work. Her filling was raisins, currants,sugar. She would roll it up, wrap in butter-paper and steam. Sometimes she used apples and sugar...Yum, Yum! as my granddaughter would say!

[quote=girliegirl]she, your Grandma had to use fresh or it would of been a mess.. I am going to get the recipe for you. my sister just gave me a copy of it last month, as a suddle hint for me to make.. I will post it and I will email it to you !! PROMISE


Thank you so sew much! Not sure my family would take to this but I am sure mym siste would remember and perhaps her daughter and grandchildren would like it. No hurry.

Just an FYI -m We are all from York, PA originally and grandma was born in Philly but her family came from NJ - not sure where this type of recipe would have originated - we're all almost pure German in heritage with a slight bit of Swiss thrown in for good measure!

Sandy in Mooresville, NC

My grandmother made Pie Crust Cookies...delicious

Roll out the crust..sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar, dot with butter. Roll up and slice.(.look like pinwheels). Bake and enjoy. Flakey and delicious!

my mom would roll out the piecrust, do the cinnamon and sugar thing, and then turn me loose with cookie cutters. we just baked 'em flat--and it only took a few minutes. to this day, i love them hot out of the oven, with cold milk. so do the grandkids!

I make roly poly but I use huckleberries instead of blueberries.
Yum! Yum!

Never though about using cookie cutters. My mom would roll out the extra dough, use butter, cinnamon and sugar and roll it back up and bake as a long roll. Thinkm we called them cinnamon roll-ups (not very original!). Loved them then and still do. I didn't bake pies, except pumpkin for my son so I would just roll out dough at any time and make them for US - not just him - OK - confession - made them while he was in school and ate them myself!! Ymmm!!!
Thanks so much to you all for the great food memories - have to figure outn how to work a little into my food choices.

Sandy in Mooresville, NC

We did that too. It was my favorite.

We call them dumdolies. Mmmm-mmm!

Roly poly puds were always made with suet and either cooked in a "rag" with string attached to each end of the parcel---to enable a fork to be inserted under to get the hot pud from saucepan OR these can be put in a basin covered with grease proof paper ,pleated for expansion, and finally covered with sheeting,also with a pleat and string around top of basin , making a loop again to facilitate the getting out of bowl from boiling water in saucepan, this method does not get the suet part wet as the rag method does, and ALWAYS REMEMBER NEVER TO ALLOW PAN TO DRY OUT!!
If a recipe for suet pud is required am happy to print .

I am coming over to eat with you guys! This sounds great!!!!

Billy

Sounds good

This is for blackberry Rolly Poly,but you can choose your own filing.The other one is for cherry .

http://www.keyingredient.com/recipes...rry-roly-poly/

http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/21161...ly?mvtid_tab=b

My mom made her rolly Polly with a Bisquick dough. She made it as for biscuits just sprinkled the dough with sugar to her taste and added berries--usually blackberries! She just folded the dough up over the berries and baked. Then we would eat it for supper with milk poured over it.Oh,does that sound good! Thanks for the memories that you made me think of!
Laurel