Grandma Marie’s Kolachky (Czech cookies) Recipe
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Ingredients: Dough:
½ pound butter
2 3 ounce packages Philly Cream Cheese
2 cups white flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
Powdered sugar
Pinch of salt
Filling:
1 package dried apricots
1 package prunes
(You will have enough filling for more than one batch of cookies)
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Directions:Thoroughly mix together cream cheese and butter. Mix together flour, baking powder, and salt, and add to cheese mixture to form a dough. Chill for approximately an hour.
While dough is chilling, put each fruit into its own pot with water to cover and heat to boiling. Reduce heat and simmer. Cook, adding more water as needed until fruits are very soft. Put apricots and prunes on cutting boards and chop each one fine. Put into bowls until ready for cookie dough.
Once dough is chilled, using a rolling pin, roll dough out to 1/8 inch thickness. Cut pieces of dough into 2 inch squares and fill with ¼ to ½ teaspoon of fruit. Fold opposite ends to the middle to make a diamond shape. Bake in a 375 degree oven for approximately 10 minutes. Watch them closely. They should have just a touch of golden brown on the bottom of the cookie. They can go from light to too brown in a flash!
Sprinkle with powdered sugar when cool. |
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Notes: Mom once told me that her mother made the kolache round! She was always so fussy with me that I do them perfectly and consistently, that I was surprised when she told me that her mother would be really upset to see that she now made them square! What a rebel. Her mother had a different day of the week for everything. Monday, I think, was wash day, and there was a day for cleaning, and a day for baking, a day for ironing, etc., every week the same. The floors were wood, and they'd get down on the floors on their hands and knees with - I think lye - to scrub them.
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