Any Bohemians here?

I'm looking for a good kolache recipe...anybody got one?

I’ll be watching this, sure miss grandma.

You from around Wilber?

I'm not a Bohunk but my One legged Grandma used to call me one!

These are made with a sweet bread dough or a rich sweet dough found it long ago in a old5th printing Betty Crockers cook book I have had for many years Gives everything you need to know if this helps you Gary.My mother was a full blood Bohonk and could speak it but didnt pass it down Made great kolache not the new kind the young bakers make now days fat puffy and a dab of filling in them old school if you know the kind I am talking about.

HA HA HA!!!

Half German half Bohemian good reasons to like beer,sausages and a good polka band.

You have my attention!

Bob Blecha and the Bouncin Czechs!

If you have a recipe you should share it with us. I think there is even a forum on here for that.

Easier said than done in the cookbook it is one whole page by the time you follow all of the recipe and the how twos to make them.Still the best cookbook I have. Pointed this in the right direction I thought.

No sir, I’m not from Wilber but I’ve been there many times. I had a polka band for 20 years. Played there quite a few times and for the Czech festivals too. Anyway, I have a bohemian cookbook, I’ll dig it out see what I can find.

Do you know bob?

I had a bar tender that always called me a Bohemian. He was a Czech. So the same thing. If you do a search on the inter web you will find recipes. Even sour dough recipes. My wife just looked it up. It looks like a jelly doughnut with no hole and the filling on top.

I found 5 recipes but that’s a lot of typing, maybe tomorrow I can send you pictures of the recipes.

It is bad that he can not look it up on his own. That would be good of you to send it to him. Google it.

The Czech Kolache I grew up on had a fruit filling in the center and hand the for corers gathered and pinched together in the center when baked aliitle filing was at the corners.The last ones from MA were in 1991.

Not all kolaches are created equal. Lots of recipes out there but some are way better than others. Grandma made 4 or 5 dozen every weekend, even canned her own fillings. Apricot, strawberry, and cherry. Dang I shoulda paid more attention.

Sure do! He's still kicking but not raising much dust. His Son or Grandson Doug is carrying on with the music now

Thanks smartarse. There's lots of recipes out there but few original good ones. Don't feel obligated to click on a post if it bothers you.

Tell him Frankie Remar says hi.
Thanks

Yepper my mother was old school dont recall her following a real cookbook she could whip up dough from memory Made all kind of bread rolls even made long johns. baking was a day long event when she went at it, nothing but the best memories bread rolls and pies.

I just checked my Betty Crocker Cookbook 1989 edition but no kolache recipe in there. My mother had a much older version (Betty Crocker) but I don't know what become of that cookbook.

The cookbook I have is fifth printing of the first edition hard red cover and string bound oldy but goodie

Is this what you are looking for? From an old cook book.

Had a co-worker make them every year for Christmas and I would get a variety box. My favorites by far were the 'walnut filling' filled Kolaches...

You mean they can be filled with something besides poppyseeds??!!

Never had them here, but did in Texas, Don't know how old school they were but they sure were good,I prefered the fruit ones,..

Many different styles of Kolaches made and it all depends on where and what state you are in The Texas Kolache is and ones that are that are are made here in MN where they have a festival for them are also diff to.the ones I know best are from a little town Protovin Ia. which has a large Chezch population. They celebrate Chezch days once a year and sell out every one they have for sale.

Wife is all Bohunk, she said she will type it up for you and get it for you. She and her mother made them for the family Bohunk church as I called it and Bohemian Hall chicken dinners all the time.

The little town of West, Tx is known for it's kolaches.
It is a Czech community.

Here's a recipe from Southern Living magazine from a Texas lady. https://www.southernliving.com/recipes/lydias-texas-kolaches
Here is the print recipe written out: https://www.southernliving.com/recipes/lydias-texas-kolaches?print

My spouse is from a German town in Texas and stores there make a sausage kolache which is not anything like the fruit ones, a sausage roll it is more like.

All you bohunks, what language did your bohunk ancestors speak? Did some Wikipedia reading about Bohemia. Several different languages in the area.

We have a town here called "Bohemia", I guessing a Czech enclave, but there didn't seem to ever be a lot of them, and they certainly didn't spread . I only know one person who had a partial Czech background and that was his Mom.

Czech was the language used when I was growing up. Czech neighborhood east of the railroad tracks, Polish on the west side, and Lithuanian south of them with the big packers in the middle. Swifts, Armours, Cudahy, and Wilson’s. Right next to the Omaha stockyards. Hard workin folks.

Keith

Thank you!!!

Thank you!

Keith, that outfit ain’t what I would identify as the type of Bohunk we’re referring to. We’re talking old school. anyway, just for fun. YouTube Clydesdale polka video. I started a band in 1962 and growing up in a Czech neighborhood we listened to music from Czechoslovakia. Long story short, I got hired to play for the wedding dance of the daughter of one of the Anheuser-Busch muckety mucks in St. Louis. So, I wrote up this little tune for my band to play at the reception. I think you’ll recognize it.

I looked on YouTube and I don't think I found your video. Please post a link.

Keith

Bohunk here. Dad makes them. It all starts with the fat. Has to be goose fat.

I'll get ahold of him and get his recipe

There you go !!! Enjoy!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYtF-dbIn-I

Thanks.



Keith

Mr. Benson. Recipes coming momentarily.

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Kolace Recipes

Here I thought Bohemian meant the size of them.

I think I’ll leave that alone.

Thank you trapjunkie! We shall try those!

I always thought "Bohemians" were the weird artsy fartsy types.

No no dude, those weird artsy fartsy types WISH they were bohemians.