May 31, 2008 Interest Group Report

Greetings!

What else? Another good meeting with great networking.

Norb gave a report on the EGS meeting where interest groups told about their group activities. He represented our group. We are unique with our active website, and our round table networking rich with folks who have traveled to the old countries. Norb also requested a good recipe for kolache. Here you go, Norb, Millie has these recipes for you and Bonnie also sent hers (which is at the end of the report)!! Email Norb for the email with these attachments. His address is below with new member info.

A big welcome to the 4 new members who attended! Mike Mecham is researching Pachara, Pahara, Singara, Shingar, CSingera, Sorlke, Kdsca , Kasnik and Sedrovi(h) from Kerestur(e) and Trebisov in Slovakia. Bonnie Allan is researching Svobota and Pasek From Bohemia via Minnesota. Harvey and Joan Knizek are researching Knizek, Borover, Janousek, Ukalek, Javorsky, Weigant , Patek, Jindry and Babkove from Hlinsko and Trzek in Bohemia via Chehalis, WA and Portland, Ore. (If you'd like, could you folks email Norb permission to have your info on our website? Others have had great luck getting feedback by doing so. [email protected]/

Mara Pithkethly brought Jana Bandysova as a guest. Jana is from Most area in NW Bohemia. She is here two months as an au pair. She gave a little presentation on Charles Bridge.

Many thanks to Milie Stanton for her help with travels in the Slovak Republic. Millie just had DNA testing done in her family. Jo Herber just returned from a successful trip to the Czech and Slovak Republics. Jo brought back Czech and Slovak bumper stickers for folks to buy! Thanks, Jo!!! Jo's researcher in the Czech Republic did some great research for her and took her to the ancestral village!!! Barb Callahan is gearing up for a trip to Hungary and the Slovak Republic. She is using some of Susan Casey's tips. Barb also had great ideas for the new researchers!! Norb has been using the free Ancestral Military Records for researching.

Many thanks to the snack providers! Next meeting is July 19th, 9:30 to Noon!

Happy researching!!!

Rosie

PS Norb found this GREAT website to translate A WHOLE PAGE of Slovak, Polish, Czech, etc. into English http://translate.google.com/translate_tools

FROM BONNIE
This recipes were my grandma's. It was in my step mom's recipe box. She is in the nursing home now with Alheimers now, bless her heart. My sister Cherry Pasek Herrmann gave me the ingrediants on the phone. There were no instructions, but she has made them before and we have watched grandma make these many times in the 1950s and early 60s. Between the two of us, we came up with the directions. I am sure that these recipes have been in the family for generations before. Please feel free to pass them along and enjoy them. Rosie would like that!

Kolacky Dough (She used the same recipie for her rolls) makes 82-121 kolacky

2 c. milk

2 c. water (saved water used to cook potatoes)

2 pkg yeast (2 cakes)

3/4 c. lard or shortning

2/3 c. sugar

2 egg yolks

2 tsp. salt

9 c. flour

Start out with the wet ingrediants and sift/stir in the flour. Kneed the dough for about 10 minutes until elastic. Let it rise for a few hours until it doubles in size. Punch it down twice and let it rise. Grandma used to put it on the stove with a warm oven. My niece likes to put it outside in the summer. If you put it in a pan in the sun and cover it with a dish towel (like the old feed sacks), it rises twice as fast. Roll the dough out into a rectangle and cut it into little squares. Put the filling into the center, pinch the corners together and put them into agreased or buttered 9x13" pan, 4 across and 6 down. Let them rise to twice the size and bake them. We are not sure what the temp or how long.(Check your favorite bread recipie.) Kolacky can be filled with prunes, apricots (cooked, got no recipie) or poppy seed filling:

Poppy seed filling:

1 lb of poppy seeds (grandma used to grind them in an old coffee grinder)

2 c. sugar

1/2 c. karo syrup

dash of milk.

Cook it on the stove until it is the consistancy that you like. Use milk to thin it out.

Rolls

Use the same dough recipie as above. Cut the squares a little bigger than the kolacky and then cut them on the bias corners into triangles. Roll them up with your fingers. Grandma used to grease her fingers so they would not stick. Place them a few inches appart on a large greased pan or cookie sheet. Coat them with egg yolks, beaten using a pastry brush. Dip your finger tips into poppy seed or sesame seeds and touch the top of each roll to add the seeds. Bake. (Check the bread recipie for time and temp).

Apple Streudal

8 c. of canned or frozen pie apples (with no sugar)

1-1 1/2 c. sugar

1/2 c. bread crumbs

1 cup raisens

1 cup coconut, shredded

1 1/2 tsp cinnimon

1/4 tsp nutmeg

pinch of salt

(She has been known to throw a few chopped dates in too if she had them) Mix all of the above ingrediants together.

Make a pie crust for 2 crusts and roll it out into a huge circle on a floured dish towel (the feed sack kind). Dump the mixture into the middle. Fold the sides in and pinch them together. (I remember her leaving the sides open.) Using the towel, flip it into a 9-13 pan. Sprinkle the top with sugar. Bake it like you would a pie, at 450 degrees for 10 minutes, crank it down to 325 and bake it for 50 minutes until it is golden brown.

Enjoy! Bonnie Pasek Allen

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