CZECH BAKER MN

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00:00 You're listening to A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters, and topics adjacent. I'm your host, Mary Lewis.  A Tiny Homestead podcast is sponsored by Homegrown Collective, a free-to-use farm-to-table platform emphasizing local connections with ability to sell online, buy, sell, trade in local garden groups, and help us grow a new food system.  You can find them at homegrowncollective.org. Today I'm talking with Michaela  at Czech Baker, Minnesota.

00:29 in Savage, Minnesota. Good afternoon, Michaela. How are you? I am good. How are you today?  I'm good. Sorry about the technical difficulties logging in.  I'm going to be emailing Riverside tomorrow and being like,  what is up guys? Cause it's not working very well for my guests.  No problem. We figured it out. So we're good.  Yes. So my

00:51 I usually I say how's the weather, but I'm in Minnesota too. So we know the weather has been kind of rainy, kind of sunny, kind of cloudy, and we never know what we're going to  get. So,  Okay. So you are a Czech baker and I need you to tell me how you pronounce K O L A C  H  Y or E or whatever it is. So Koláč would be a traditional size that we have in Czech Republic. And that would be one item, just one.

01:20 Kolache would be multiple. And then here in Minnesota, they do use Kolache keys. So they add the S at the end to make it multiple. But if you say Kolache key, that would be multiple already. And single would be Kolache. And that is just a smaller version  from the regular Kolache word. Okay. And that particular pastry we're talking about is the one that...

01:46 that's flat on the bottom, but the corners are folded in and it has like a jam or jelly in the middle. Is that right?  You know, we're going to be  hearing a lot of people about this because I was born and raised in the Czech Republic.  Koláč comes from words, kolá, which means round. So  in Czech Republic, if you ask for koláč, you're going to get a round circle item with the filling on the top and open face. And that's the ones I make. And then the ones here in Minnesota,  they do

02:16 put in the two corners or sometimes they just do two of the sides, kind of wrap them over and kind of hide the filling a little bit. So we make those in Europe as well. We don't call them kolache. We have different names on a different presentations. It's the same dough, same filling, just a different presentation and gives you a different name. But in Czech Republic, if you ask for kolache, you're going to get a round thing with open face. Okay.

02:41 See, this is why I love talking to you people on the podcast because I learned things I didn't know. My husband and I were at a friend's house last year or the year before and the male of the couple was telling me that it's Kalachi and I've heard it called Kalaki, like Kalaki days in I think Mont