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Even more simply, and predating baking powder, a basic three-ingredient dough was layered with cinnamon sugar, nuts or jam and used in closely related cookies such as rugelach, kolacky and geese feet, old-fashioned precursors to coffee shop glazed butterhorns.

Christmas would not be Christmas without kolacky, oatmeal thins, blond brownies, shortbread logs and molasses cookies.

In late July came the annual Kolacky Days festival, which celebrates their town’s Czech heritage and its famous fruit-stuffed pastry.

Marty put on a tux for Friday night’s Kolacky Days pageant — where a queen is chosen and gets a shiny tiara — because this year they honored local farmers.