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Texas Festivals Are About Crowns, Gowns, and Kolaches
When Arin Smith was growing up in Stonewall, near Fredericksburg, her annual Peach JAMboree routine never changed. Friday night: Attend the rodeo. Saturday: Accompany Grannie to enter her pie or cobbler in the baking contest, watch the parade, and then go home and wait for the phone call that invariably told Grannie she’d won.Through the eighties and early nineties, Smith’s Grannie, Mildred Jenschke, dominated the JAMboree’s baking contests: Judges couldn’t resist her buttery crust, always the perfect shade of golden brown. Her winning recipes would’ve remained secret had the Stonewall Chamber of Commerce not persuaded her to share them in its commemorative JAMboree cookbooks. Those books are now displayed at the Bullock Museum, in Austin, as part of the exhibit “Texas Festivals: Creating Community Through…The post Texas Festivals Are About Crowns, Gowns, and Kolaches appeared first on Texas Monthly.