Milk, eggs, butter, flour, yeast, sugar, and salt getting thoroughly kneaded. It's time for kolaches! Trying out tbe recipe @dolari shared.

#baking #kolaches

Mixing up the cheese filling!

RISE my children! <cackle/>

In you go!

And done! Kolaches! 4 with cheese blend only, 4 with cheese and a strawberry-rhubarb jam, and 8 with lemon curd.

@dolari they turned out great! I may have slightly overbaked them, but I had to rotate the trays to let the ones that had been on bottom get some top rack time. I'll adjust on the next batch.

@TonyaMarie @dolari ah yes the other kind of kolache, looks amazing.

@secant2 @dolari

OK, you have baited the hook, I'll bite. What do *you* consider to be a kolache? 😁

@TonyaMarie @dolari in Texas we make kolaches with meat, a result of Czech immigrants moving there in the 1800s. I made some for the first time this week. It's like a meat pastry, I just have a hot dog and cheese and some jalapeño slices in there.

@secant2 @TonyaMarie - Ah, the "pigs in a blanket" version.
They're actually "Koblanisky" but in Texas they've inherited the name Kolache since they're often sold together.

That said...I WOULD LOVE YOUR RECIPE. This is the third of the Texas Baking Trifecta I need to master.

@dolari @TonyaMarie ah so, this is my first attempt, so it's a bit "in dev" at the moment while I try to capture the magic of my favorite places in Houston. I stuck pretty exactly to the below recipe here, except I subbed in bread flour for AP.

I used some hot dogs pan fried in butter, sharp cheddar cheese, and jalapeños for the filling. Got good reviews from other TX natives, but they can def be better.

https://houseofyumm.com/sausage-kolaches/

@dolari @TonyaMarie I was really worried about the dough texture so I made a bunch of white bread loaves until I got one that I liked. Luckily seems like that helped transfer to the outcome of this recipe. I want to try incorporating a bit of king's hawai'ian roll copycat recipes to make the bread sweeter, then I had a left field idea of using longanisa sausages for the filling, but I'll have to make my own to get the right form factor :/

@secant2 @dolari If you have a good recipe for a Hawaiian roll , I'd love to try it. I use them for sliders, but actual King's rolls are a bit thicker than I like for that purpose. If I could make my own with a thinner form, that would be perfect.