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Kolacky Cookies

Mychalina, my mother, emigrated from the Ukraine as a young married woman with two children.  I was the second youngest of five sisters and grew up watching my mother make her kolacky recipe on that old cutting board she had. She would always make the best kolackys. She would be in the kitchen for hours on end, making dozens and dozens of kolacky cookies for holidays, church socials, for birthdays, graduations, you name it. Well into her 80′s she would make this traditional kolacky cookie recipe for us, even for the neighbors who mowed here lawn and shoveled her snow. That’s the kind of wonderful and generous person she was. Before she recently passed away my family and I made it a point to get all her favorite recipes. It is a good thing because she never wrote anything down.

Her kolacky cookie recipe was always my favorite recipe of hers. Her prune and apricot kolacky cookies were the best. In one sitting I could eat a dozen. Now since my recent diagnose of celiac, I thought I would never be able to eat another kolacky cookie again. But thanks to my husband’s niece and the use of her kitchen, we successfully made a GF version of my mother’s kolackys. Trust me it wasn’t easy. After many failed attempts and many long hours in the kitchen, we finally had an edible kolacky that was pretty close to my mother’s original recipe. According to my family, and my niece’s 5 year-old diagnosed son, they were delicious. So if you are gluten intolerant and you think you can’t ever eat a kolacky again, here’s a recipe for you to try. I hope you like it. …continue reading »