This recipe looks absolutely wonderful. Unfortunately I only have honey wheat germ in the house. Could I substitute flax meal for the wheat germ, or just use the honey what germ that I have? If I want to make the entire recipe as rolls, how many do you think I should go for? Seems like a lot of flour and oats for just 14 rolls. I have always loved the idea of passing recipes on. I have two very old family recipes that are in regular use by friends. One is for my Aunt Fanny's Biscotti, which are really what Italian bakeries call "Reginas" , and the other is for traditional Sicilian fig cookies, which require weeks of preparation and several bakers to accomplish. One friend helps me grind the fig mixture a week ahead of time, mix it with the wine syrup and let it sit for a week. Then on the Saturday after Thanksgiving five of us, (including my DIL) get together and make the cookies. We each end up with about 80 to 90 cookies, which get distributed to families, friends and even favorite doctors! We have been doing this for at least twenty years ( we started doing it with my parents, but carry on now even though they are sadly no longer with us), and when all the baking is done, and we sit around with a cup of coffee, we toast each other with a fig cookie and say " NOW it can be Christmas!""

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