Have to think about that one.

I know she made them with pastry and sausage meat-not sasuages. Was it Mom that made them or Dad?  And I think they were baked.  Were they made in big rolls and then sliced like cinnamon buns? You're probably right that they were made for company and not the family.  Were they not part of Christmas dinner?  That would explain them being made ahead of time and frozen.  This whole paragraph sounds like "flight of ideas", and probably most of them are wrong.  I only have the vaguest memory of them.