Kolaches #1

INGREDIENTS

INSTRUCTIONS

From: hall@rose.pnyp (Laura Hall)
Date: 25 Feb 1994 13:02:20 -0500
I noticed a request for Kolaches.  This recipe is from the Czechoslovakian
grandmother of a co-worker.  I don't know how long condensed milk has been
around but this is how she makes it now.
Dissolve the yeast in 1 tsp. warm water for cake yeast (or 1/4 cup water
for dry yeast) and 1 tsp. sugar. Let it stand for 5 min., it will foam if
the yeast is alive.
Warm the milk, butter, salt, and sugar to 105 deg. F.  Add the beaten eggs.
Then add the yeast mixture.
Add 5 1/2 cups (or more) to flour to make a soft dough.  Knead the dough
and let it rise until doubled (and puch it down) two times, then form it
into 2" wide disks. NOTE: this dough rises very slowly.
Brush kolaches with melted butter and let them rise on a baking sheet for
about an hour.  Make a deep depression in the center and fill with filling
of choice (his grandmother just used pie fillings). Let them rise some
more.
Bake the kolaches at 350 deg. F on the center rack for 12-15 min.  Brush
with melted butter when they're removed from the oven.
NOTE:  The first time I made these, I did not let them rise long enough and
they looked and tasted O.K. but were VERY HEAVY.  Also, they guy at work
said his mother and grandmother would fight over who make them lightest. So
your goal is to make them light, and this means adequate rising time.
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