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Using a large bowl, add shortening and sugar to hot mashed potatoes. Add beaten eggs and quickly stir them in very well.
Dissolve yeast in lukewarm potato water and add sifted flour and salt.
Combine potato and yeast mixture (like a bread dough) and let rise in a covered bowl until doubled in bulk, 20-30 minutes at 80 degrees F.
Pat out in greased pans (one 11x7x2 inch plus one 8 inch square, or 3 square pans) to 1/2 inch thick.
Let rise 1 hr. Make indentations in dough and fill holes with plenty of butter. Sprinkle very generously with brown sugar and cinnamon.
Bake at 375 degrees F for 20 minutes.
This "cake" freezes very well if you wrap it tightly and keep it in an opaque outer wrapper. You probably will not have any leftovers to freeze though as this is a wonderfully moist and delicious food.
| Servings: | 12-16 |
| Time: | 30 Minutes Preparation Time 20-25 Minutes Cooking Time |
Source: Marcia Adams made this on TV about 20 years ago. She has a cookbook out "Cooking From Quilt Country" On Amish and Mennonite cooking and baking which is such a good cookbook.
By Pookarina from Boca Raton, FL
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05/05/2010
Hi Czechens,
Kolaches are a traditional Czech yeast (not always yeast though) breakfast or dessert treat. Most often it's made containing a fruit with or without cottage cheese mixed in. If you do want to try using the Moravian type dough, just do everything as you would in the Moravian version, but when you make the indentions, make them a little
larger maybe, and fill them with something like one of the canned pie fillings: apple,cherry, blueberry etc. Mix it with a little drained cottage cheese, and it might do the trick. It never hurts to try, and even if it's not exactly the one you're looking for, I think it'd still be a nice treat.
When you try it, do let us know how it works for you. I love learning new ways to use my old recipes.
All the best,
Julia in Boca Raton, FL
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05/05/2010
I'm thinking I might try this basic dough to make kolache. I've been trying for years to get close to my grandmother's recipe with no luck. (Unfortunately, when she was alive, I was totally disinterested in cooking. Now I'm pushing 70 and really wishing I'd paid attention!) I know she put mashed potatoes in the dough, so I think I'll give this a whirl and see what happens.
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05/04/2010
We used to stop at a PA roadside "stand" and buy
squares of something that sounds like this. It
was fairly heavy for the size of the squares, so I
suspect it had something like "potato starch" in it.
When we got it, it was still warm, and so good.
I haven't made yeast bread of any kind in a while,
but this recipe makes me want to try it.
Thanks for sharing.
MisMachado
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