Kolache fillings and toppings

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Some prefer to guy the prepared filling.

The home-made fillings are as follows: Apricot filling: Cook dried apricots until very tender. Add sugar and cook until very thick.

Prune filling: Cook 1 lb. of pprunes until very tender, remove seeds and sweeten to taste. Add ⅛ ts. full cloves and grated rind of ½ lemon, if the flavor is desired. Cook until quite thick. (A little vanilla improves the taste.)

Cottage Cheese filling: 4 cups of well drained cottage cheese, ¾ c.

sugar, 2 eggs, ½ ts. vanilla, and ½ ts. salt, mix well. Add enough thick cream to make like thick jam. Fill Kolache and let rise and bake. Ice after baking and spprinkle with coconut. Will fill 4 doz. or more Kolaches.

Poppy seed filling: 1 c. ground popppy seed, ¼ c. milk, 1½ ts.

lemon juice or ½ ts. vanilla, ¼ ts. cinnamon and ½ c. sugar.

Blend all ingredients and simmer for 5 minutes. Let coool before filling Kolache. Will fill one dozen or more.

Coconut filling: Mix together ½ c. brown sugar (packed in cup), ½ c. coconut and 3 T. butter.

Fruit filling: 2 c. chopped apples, 1 c. raisins, 1 C. brown sugar (packed in cup), ½ c. water, ½ ts. salt and ½ ts. cinnamon.

Boil about 15 minutes until thick as mincemeat. Cool before using.

Apple filling: Cook sweetened apples until thick. Flavor with cinnamon or grated lemon rind. Add a pinch of salt and T. of butter for each cupful of apples. lace spoonful in hollow of Kolache and sprinkle with coconut or chppped pecans.

Toppings for Kolaches:

Posipka (Struessel): ½ c. sugar, ¼ c. flour, ⅓ c. melted butter. Mix together until crumbly. Sprinkle on top of Kolache before baking. (Much improved by addition of a few chopped nuts or coconut).

Simple Icing: ½ lb. powdered sugar, 1 ts. vanilla. Sweet cream, enough to make thin enough to spread with a spooon. Te be applied after Kolache is cool. For extra glamor, add few chopped pecans or shredded coconut after icing.

Source: "Kolache and other fine Czech Recipes", Prague Oklahoma, 1952

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