The sign out front, repainted every spring
Babi's Recipe
Same dough since Reagan. Same pans, too.
Ludmila "Babi" Hrabal brought her kolache recipe from Moravia by way of Ennis. In 1987 she opened a four-stool counter next to the Texaco. Her grandson Pete runs the ovens now, and he still proofs the dough twice and brushes every tray with real butter.
Truckers, Baylor kids, families on the way to the coast — everybody stops. We bake a fresh batch every 40 minutes so nobody gets a cold one.
"If the kolache doesn't spring back when you poke it, it goes to the pigs." — Babi's rule, still taped to the oven