My Grandmother Ruth was the driving baking force on my mother's side of my family. Grandma was born and bred in Cincinnati, Ohio where she learned her craft from her mother who learned her craft from hers. These graced the table at every Christmas breakfast. She made these beauties well into her nineties. These sticky buns and their variations where my Grandfather Joe's absolute favorite. She also made an orange infused version of these that incorporated raisins. When she made them he literally could not keep his hands off them. The batch was always short a few by the time they made them to the table as they found their way to my grandfather's belly first. He was also a man who got fired from his job as a boy delivering ice cream from a local parlor because he ate too much of the ice cream. Feel free to use different nuts. I am working on an almond and whole grain flour riff.

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