FF, I'm not in/from Tx but I was curious too so I searched and found this:
Kolaches
Apparently it's a traditional recipe and the story gives background about the Czechs in Tx
oh, I also found this, from a larger article:
<begin quote>"By the Civil War there were about 700 Czechs in Texas, many with Unionist and abolitionist sentiments. However, some fought in the Confederate army, while others tried to remain neutral.
A second wave of Czech immigration in the 1870s and 1880s followed the war. These Czech settlers established themselves on the Coastal Prairie and the Blackland Prairie from Ellis County near Dallas in the north to Victoria County on the south. A third wave after 1900 moved eastward to Brazoria and Fort Bend counties near Houston.
Although there are Czechs throughout Texas and isolated Czech communities in South and West Texas today, the concentration of Czech settlements in a cluster of 15 counties gives a high profile to the culture and its traditions. Recent census figures show other ancestry groups in Texas have larger numbers. However, as a rule, they moved directly to urban areas and quickly assimilated into city life while Czechs maintain these identifiable places of cultural majority.
In the 1990 census, Texans who listed some Czech ancestry numbered 282,562. Other sources, including a statewide group called Texans of Czech Ancestry, say the numbers are closer to one million.
However, the impact on Texas culture is difficult to convey through numbers. Not until 1920, after the formation of Czechoslovakia, did the U.S. census or immigration services use a "Czech" designation. Often, "Austrian" might the listed in U.S. documents. One clue to the impact of Czechs on Texas might be seen in the census' 1920 figures for "Country of Birth of Foreign-Born Population." The three largest groups in Texas were: from Mexico, 69.2 percent; from Germany, 8.6 percent; from Czechoslovakia, 3.6 percent. Or in another tabulation, Czech "foreign white stock" (defined as those who spoke Czech at home) in 1940 was 62,680.
The two provinces of the Czech Republic are Bohemia, centered by the city of Prague, and Moravia, which lies to the east. The majority of Czech immigrants to Texas are Moravian, and the dialects spoken in Texas vary slightly from the Bohemian dialects spoken by most Czech-Americans.
Often 19th-century American accounts confuse the issue by calling certain Czech towns in Texas "Bohemian" when in fact the people were Moravian.
That the Czech language is still spoken in Texas is possibly a reaction to prohibitions by Austrian authorities on using the language. Early on, the new Czech-Texans established schools and newspapers to teach and maintain their language. Czech was being taught in the classroom in Cat Spring in 1855. The state's largest public college, the University of Texas at Austin, teaches Czech in the modern language department.
Today radio broadcasts in Czech can be heard in Central Texas. Also heard is the music that distinguishes the culture. The polkas and waltzes, and the musical instruments used, such as the accordion, so impacted the culture of Texas that the sounds crossed over into the Mexican culture, becoming part of the nortèo sound and blending into conjunto bands. It is a legacy that reaches into the Tejano music of today. These Spanish terms refer to music with elements of this style.
Numerous well-known Czech bands still play the dance halls and church bazaars throughout the state, and Ennis, one of the northernmost Czech towns, plays host to the National Polka Festival each May.
It is said that "wherever you find two Czechs you'll find three clubs." Thus, local lingo in Czech towns is a kind of "alphabet soup" of these groups. There will probably be an SPJST hall, a lodge known by the Czech initials for Slavonic Benevolent Order of the State of Texas It is a non-denominational fraternal group formed in 1897, initially to provide..." <end quote>
-taken from Texas State Historical Associaiton
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