Talk:Kolache
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[edit] sorry...did not delete this on purpose
- I'm of Polish heritage through my maternal grandmother, and the home-made kolaczky that she, my mother, and my aunts make is a lot smaller than the one described on the page, less like a bread roll and more cookie-like in size and density, with only two opposing corners folded in, producing a kind of hexagonal diamond shape with the filling coming out the open sides. This morning at breakfast in one of the dining halls at Ohio University, one of the items in the buffet was an odd-looking, large, flaky pastry that turned out to have a sausage patty in the middle, and the flavor of its dough, although much flakier, reminded me strongly of that of the kolaczkies I've described; after a little research which returned no hits of the word "kolaczky" on WP, I came upon this page; I was apparently served a Texas-style "kolache". Is anyone else familiar with the variant that I know? Gus 14:27, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
The Kolačky exists in various variations throughout eastern Europe from at least Slovenia to Poland. I grew up with Slovene-style at home and Czech-style from the bakery. There is a great deal of cross-over in various styles of Kolačky. Donald Hosek 02:15, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
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"Kolache" in Texas categorically refers to the sausage version. In fact, a Kolache with sweet filling sounds downright disgusting. It wrong to say that "Kolache" is a misnomer when the entire state/south uses this word to refer consistently to the sausage version.
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Not biased at all.
1. Wikipedia is a world-wide guide. The perspective of Texas is not the definitive one, *especially* when discussing an eastern european dessert. People from other places just might have something to say about it. Say, maybe, the Czech Republic, or Oklahoma, Nebraska, or any other midwestern states with historically large numbers of Czech immigrants.
2. You are completely wrong that "Kolache" categorically refers to the sausage "version" in Texas. Weikel's Bakery in La Grange, Texas and the Czech Stop in West, Texas, both bakeries in historically Czech immigrant communities - make the distinction between fruit and cheese filled Kolaches and klobasneks. Festivals with baking competition in Caldwell, Texas, and in West, Texas, contain multiple fruit categories. Perhaps most damning, Texas Monthly, a well-known reporter of Texas culture and news, lists three recipes in an article located at http://www.texasmonthly.com/food/kolache/kolache.6.php No meat recipes are listed - only fruit, poppyseed, cottage cheese and cabbage.
3. I am of Czech descent from Ennis Texas. The sausage roll commonly call a kolache in Texas is a bastardization of the real thing. My grandmother would have called it a 'Pig in a Blanket' and not a Kolach. True kolache are always sweet breads with either fruit, cottage cheese, or poppy seeds for a filling. Also I would like to make a note on spelling. In Czech, kolach is singular and kolache is plural. Kolaches is not a word and would be the equivalent of saying breadses. One final note, in Czech the word for sausage is klobasa. Therefore a sausage roll would be klobasnek. (Sorry this is a pet peeve of mine.) Babba Lou 14:34, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Kolache cookies
I grew up outside of Chicago and our family has made these cookies since the 1960's. They were, as described in another comment, shaped like diamonds and filled with Solo brand (very important) pie filling in either apricot or sometimes raspberry filling. The cookie part is butter, cream cheese and flour. We still make them today but have to find people to send us the Solo pie filling since we moved all over the country. Oh, and we promounce them KO - lach - ski. I wonder what the correct pronounciation is or if I am correct. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.27.40.43 (talk) 20:31, 10 January 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Suggested merge
Please discuss at talk:Kalach (food)#Suggested merge. —Michael Z. 2007-08-03 22:21 Z
