Southern Recipe Restoration Project

The contributor: Eloise Pino of Marietta, a mother of two grown sons, who grew up in Cedartown.
The story: “My mother and grandmother were fabulous cooks and I was fortunate to have grown up watching them prepare food with a limited budget.
“... My grandmother Eunice Barrett Parrish ... made a sliced cookie she called 'nut roll' for most of her life, a recipe she revised at various times using ingredients she had on hand. ...
“When she made this, she had to make two batches because everyone would sneak into the kitchen and devour the little treats before she could serve her guests. She used an old-fashioned meat grinder that you attach to the kitchen counter or table, and hand-ground the 'meat,’ as she called the ingredients."
-- Susan Puckett, for the Journal-Constitution

The original instructions for this sweet treat called for a meat grinder, but since that once-essential piece of equipment is now considered a gourmet rarity, we’ve adapted the instructions for a food processor.