Old-Fashioned Kolaches
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
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10
ingredients
directions
- Scald milk. Add sugar and butter and stir to dissolve. Allow it to cool to warm, then add the yeast and let it begin to work. Add eggs.
- Put milk mix in a large mixing bowl. Measure the flour and salt into another bowl.
- With a mixer slowly work the flour mix into the dough bowl. When the dough becomes too thick for the mixer to handle, start working in the flour by hand.
- When dough starts to come together and leave the sides of the bowl, it's just right.
- Form the dough into a ball and cover. Let rise in warm place until double its size.
- Turn the dough out on a lightly floured surface and knead gently until it comes together and is soft and elastic.
- Divide dough into egg-size pieces. Flatten and form into square or round. Make a depression in the center with your floured thumb.
- Fill the depression with 1 rounded teaspoon of filling. Let the filled kolaches rise about 20 minutes. Brush tops with beaten egg mixed with a little milk and sugar.
- Bake at 350° for 15-20 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Sprinkle you fresh out-of-the-oven kolaches with powdered sugar before serving.
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FILINGS:
- Apricot: Place 1 lb dried apricots in a pan with cool water. Let soak several hours. Bring to slow simmer and add sugar to taste. Cook until very soft. Stir to get a smooth consistency.
- Prune: Made the same way as the apricot filling.
- Pineapple: Simmer well drained canned, crushed pineapple until it thickens.
- Poppy seed: 1/2 lb ground poppy seeds, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp vanilla. Add enough milk to make a thick mis. Let stand overnight to absorb the liquid.
- Cream cheese: 8 oz cream cheese, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 tsp lemon juice, 3/4 tsp vanilla, 1 tsp sour cream. Mix together until smooth.
- Sausage: Take a small piece of sausage and wrap dough around the piece and bake.
- You can use just about any fruit filling in the kolaches, just don't use jam or jelly. They liquefy with the heat in the oven.
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I have just finished making the recipe for Kolaches submitted by Babygirl65. I strongly agre this is an excelent recipe except that the pastry wasn't as sweet as I remember when I lived in Temple,Texas(about 60 miles south of West. I was raised a Texan and was in the heart(so to speak) of Checz and German culture before I moved to Ohio with the wife. Anyway, I added a 1/4 of a cup of sugar to the recipe and made the doughballs the size of a walnut instead of an egg and they turned out perfect. Hope you don't mind the correction. Try it,I could be wrong,but then again...
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
babygirl65
Crowley, TX
I just got married on 07/07/07!! I have lived in Fort Worth, Texas for about 7 years. I have lived in Austin, Corpus Christi and I'm originally from San Angelo, Texas.
I love to cook for my family, friends and church. I love trying new recipes. I hope you enjoy the ones that I have posted. If not, please give me your input as to how to improve or any ideas that you might have.