Bread Baking Babes Bake Sweet Breads

I love sweet breads.

I’m not so crazy about sweetbreads.

One of my early lessons in ‘not making assumptions when in a foreign country’ was the unintentional discovery that ris de veau is not veal with rice.

It’s veal sweetbread… which is the thymus or pancreas of a calf.

Nothing remotely like these lovely, sweet, Czech Kolaches that the Babes baked this month.

I love almost any pastry, but these wonderful, soft, slightly sweet kolaches with cream cheese or fruit jam, (or both) are making me drool.

This summer challenge for the Babes is from Judy, of Judy’s Gross Eats, our host Kitchen for July.

The Kolache are a festive bread brought to the U.S. by Czech immigrants.

You can read more about the history, and about her friend’s Grandma, on Judy’s Gross Eats. You’ll also find the recipe as well as links to a variety of fillings.

And, of course, all the details for baking along this month.

Judy’s Kolache

Karen’s Kolache

Cathy’s Kolache

Kelly’s Kolaches

Elizabeth’s Kolaches

That’s it for July…

The Babes are busy this month – It’s summer!

The Bread Baking Babes

A Messy Kitchen – Kelly
blog from OUR kitchen – Elizabeth
Bread Experience – Cathy
Feeding My Enthusiasms – Elle
Judy’s Gross Eats – Judy
Karen’s Kitchen Stories – Karen
My Diverse Kitchen — Aparna
My Kitchen In Half Cups – Tanna

And me…. Thyme for Cooking – Katie