Posted by Michael Stern
, December 12, 2008 05:37
It was the bakeries of West, Texas that originally made kolaches a signature pastry of the Lone Star state, but now you'll find them almost everywhere east of the Brazos River watershed. A kolache, in case you don't know, is a small pastry that resembles a Danish, but is made with dough that is sweeter and softer. Preferred fillings are such old world favorites as poppy seed, prune, and apricot, although the Kolache Factory offers ones filled with sausage, barbecued beef and – whoa, Nellie! – chocolate cream cheese. To make sure they don't sit in the post office over the weekend, they are shipped only Monday through Wednesday: www.kolachefactory.com.
