Every Dallasite who has driven I-35 to Austin knows the ritual. About 75 miles south of downtown, you pull off in West, stand in line, and walk out with a box of sausage kolaches for the road. Somewhere, though, a Texas Czech grandmother is shaking her head. What you bought is a klobasnek.
A kolache is sweet. The name comes from the Czech kola, for wheels or rounds, and it describes a round of soft yeast dough with a dimple of fruit, sweet cheese or poppy seed in the middle. Czech immigrants brought it to Central Texas in the 1800s.
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