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.

@TonyaMarie @dolari I guess I need to start posting the cooking stuff to both my accounts lol

I've found some copycat recipes online but haven't tried any of them yet. I'll try to remember to post a link (or my own I guess) if I figure it out. Badger me if I don't.

@secant2 @TonyaMarie - The only copycat I ever did was a Whataburger, which came REAL close (I just can't find "wide" buns like Whataburger uses!).

@TonyaMarie @dolari oh no please don't remind me that whataburger exists and I can't go there anymore 😭😭😭

@secant2 @TonyaMarie - I'm an Austinite exiled to Seattle, I feel your pain. ❤️

@dolari @TonyaMarie oh yeah I'm a Houstonian exiled to Seattle how about that lol