Bohemian Kolaches With Four Fillings

Total Time: 2 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 2 hrs Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 8 teaspoons dry yeast, dissolved in
• 1 cup warm water
• 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 3 cups 2% low-fat milk, scalded
• 1/2 cup butter (margarine fine too)
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 10 -11 cups flour (don't make dough too stiff)
• 1 lb pitted prunes
• sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• extract
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 lb apricot
• sugar, to taste
• 16 ounces cottage cheese
• 1 egg yolk
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1 dash nutmeg
• 4 tablespoons flour
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1 teaspoon flour
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 2 lbs poppy seed filling (from a bakery)
• 1 egg yolk
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• cream

Recipe

• 1 dissolve yeast in water until foamy.
• 2 heat milk, pour over butter and sugar. stir until melted. add 2 cups flour, then beat until smooth.
• 3 add yeast, eggs and salt. add flour until a soft ball forms. grease top; let.
• 4 rise. punch down and let rise again.
• 5 stretch dough on floured board to about 1/2-inch thickness. cut into rounds using a soup can. put on greased pans and let rise.
• 6 when nice and puffy, make indentations in center and fill with favorite filling like prune, apricot, cottage cheese or poppy seed. when risen to a nice puffy look, bake at 375 degrees f until a golden color - cook 15 minutes then check every 3 minutes thereafter.
• 7 prune filling:.
• 8 cook prunes until soft. grind and add sugar, vanilla extract and cinnamon. stir well.
• 9 apricot filling:.
• 10 cook apricots until soft. grind and add sugar. sweeter is better. stir well.
• 11 cottage cheese filling:.
• 12 put cottage cheese in blender. add egg yolk, lemon juice, nutmeg and 4 tablespoons flour and blend some more. take out of blender and add raisins. sprinkle with 1 teaspoon flour and sugar.
• 13 poppy seed filling:.
• 14 mix together. use enough cream to make it easier to put into kolaches.