With a name like Nancy?s Heavenly Treats, it?s fitting that Nancy Christman came up with the name for her wholesale baked goods business in church. Christman, who has been making her signature Hungarian Nut Rolls since learning the recipe from a friend of Hungarian descent in the early 1980s, used to make the decadent walnut-laden pastries just for friends and family as well as fundraisers at Pughtown Baptist Church. It wasn?t long until she had a following, with customers asking Nancy when and where they could next purchase the pastries.

Prior to this venture, the Christmans, who met as classmates at Owen J. Roberts High School and married shortly after graduation in 1965, owned and operated the Evergreen Bed & Breakfast on 29 acres in the Moosehead Lake region of Maine from 1986 to 1996. Later, Nancy worked as an inspector for Bed & Breakfasts throughout the country. They eventually moved back to North Coventry to be closer to their children and grandchildren. John started a contracting business, Christman Construction, while Nancy cultivated a garden design business and made baked goods as a hobby. But the physical garden work became increasingly difficult for Nancy, who suffers from arthritis. And so she decided to concentrate on making the nut rolls and other baked goods. John built and finished the roomy addition himself. It includes a homey kitchen area with a large granite-topped island which provides lots of room for rolling out pastries, as well as a small office and plenty of space for a large baking oven and cooling racks. He also helps out with the preparation and packaging of the baked goods for shipping.

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