Behold the Kolache!
A link to Texas' Old World heritage, the kolache (pronounced "koh-la-chee") came to America via Bohemian and Moravian Czech immigrants who emigrated en masse during the mid-to-late 1800s. Settling in what is now known as the Czech Belt, a range of territory stretching throughout East and Central Texas, at least one of these families had the right idea to continue producing the nostalgic pastry that they had enjoyed so much back in the motherland.
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