Cedar Rapids women bake kolaches at YWCA workshop
Mrs Stejskal, Cedar Rapids, leads a YWCA kolache workshop with Darlene Merklin and others. The group beats dough, adds topping and filling as a crumb mixture of flour sugar and butter coats the bottom of the pastries.
Kolaches Featured At Cedar Rapids YWCA Workshop
Liz Stejskal shared her kolache recipe during a workshop at the YWCA in Cedar Rapids, highlighting the citys Czech heritage and the popular fruit filled pastries.
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Kolache Dough and Filling Method with Yeast Rise
A vintage recipe details making kolache dough with flour milk sugar eggs and yeast. It guides boiling milk, melting shortening, mixing with flour, beating until smooth, rising until double, shaping walnut sized balls, filling centers, rising again, and baking at 450 for 8 to 10 minutes yielding 5 to 6 dozen.
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