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Directions:To make kolaches, use your favorite bread/roll recipe. We included Janice VanBrunt's roll recipe and Sandra Moore's Family Bread recipe. Both of these are a good basis. You may want to add extra sugar to the recipe and possibly exchange the fats for butter, whatever your preference. An outline for making kolaches follows:
Begin with your chosen bread/roll recipe, tweaking with some extra sugar and butter as needed. After the initial rising, make dough balls about the size of a walnut and place them on a baking sheet about 2 inches apart. When making the dough balls, keep hands well buttered so dough does not dry out.
Doris Novotny taught the Mike and Sandra Moore children the technique to make balls. It is as follows: while holding a big lump of dough in one hand, take the first two fingers on the other hand and push some dough in between the thumb and forefinger of the hand holding the lump of dough. Push the dough through until it is the size of a walnut, then pinch of with thumb and forefinger. Continue until dough is used up.
Allow these to rise until close to doubled. After they have risen, using two fingers of each hand, press out the center of the ball leaving a cookie sized round, with a dough rim and indention in the middle. Dont' press too hard and create a thin base because it will not hold the filling in while baking. As you are pressing, have another person fill the indentions with the filling. When kolaches are filled, sprinkle posipka (recipe below) on top, let rise until kolaches touch or small indention in dough stays indented. Bake at 375 degrees about 12 to 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Brush immediately with melted butter and remove from pan onto rack to cool.
Posipka
1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
Mix together until crumbly, the consistency of coarse cornmeal
Fruit fillings:
Can of fruit (usually in heavy syrup)
sugar to taste
cornstarch paste (Cook together to desired consistency - keep in mind it will set up upon cooling)
Cream cheese filling:
8 oz cream cheese
1 large egg
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla |
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