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Dutch Apple Squares

 

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Dutch Apple Squares

Course: bread, Brunch, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: apple, apple bread, bread, Larkin
Author: WILBERTA MERRELL BLISS, SHREWSBURY, Mass.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup scalded milk
  • ⅓ cup lard
  • ⅓ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 yeast cake
  • ⅓ cup lukewarm water
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 cups bread flour
  • 5 apples
  • ⅓ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Larkin Cinnamon
  • 2 tablespoons currants

Instructions

  • Pour one cup scalded milk over one-third cup each of lard and granulated sugar; add one teaspoon salt.
  • When lukewarm, add one yeast cake softened in one-half cup lukewarm water.
  • Add two unbeaten eggs and three cups of bread flour.
  • Beat thoroughly with a wooden spoon, cover and set in a warm place to rise until it has doubled in bulk.
  • Spread in two square greased pans, brush over with melted butter.
  • Pare and core five apples, out in eighths, press the sharp edges of the apples into the dough.
  • Sprinkle with one-third cup granulated sugar mixed with one teaspoon Larkin Cinnamon and scatter over top two tablespoons currants.
  • Bake one-half hour or more in a hot oven.
  • Cut in squares and serve hot with butter or sweetened and flavored whipped cream.
  • Also good when cold.

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Boston Cookies

 

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Boston Cookies

Course: Cookie, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cookie, cooky
Author: Mrs. Eugene Crow

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter
  • 3 eggs
  • 1½ tbsp hot water
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • ½ cup raisins chopped
  • 1½ cups sugar
  • 3¼ cups flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 cup walnuts chopped

Instructions

  • Cream butter and sugar.
  • Add eggs, well-beaten, and soda which has been dissolved in the hot water.
  • Sift together the flour, salt, and cinnamon.
  • Add half of this to the thin mixture, then add the walnuts and currants or raisins.
  • Add the rest of the flour ad beat well.
  • Drop on a buttered sheet and bake in a moderate (350°-400°) oven.

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The Ghost Girl of Knoche Road Tonawanda #tbt

I grew up (late 70s/ early 80s- Gen X represent!) hearing the Ghost Girl of Knoche Road story. I had no idea just how old the story was. I also don’t want to admit for how long I kept looking for her whenever I was in the Knoche Road/ Delaware Avenue area.

 

TOWN POLICE DENY RUMORS OF “GHOST GIRL” ON KNOCHE ROAD

Town of Tonawanda police today denied the rumor of a “ghost girl” on Knoche Road. They conducted an investigation following reports that a girl about 18 or 19 years of age appears about midnight and hails cars, asking the motorists to drive her to her home. The girl is supposed to give her name and address. Upon arriving at the designated house the motorist finds that the girl has disappeared. When questioning the occupants of the dwelling it Is found that the girl has been dead for two years.

Motorists who are supposed to have picked her up are not known so a description of the girl and the facts surrounding the alleged “ghost girl” are not available. The case has become the talk of the Niagara Frontier and people are said to visit the spot nightly to see if the girl will appear. As far as It is known no one has seen her while on these scouting trips.

The story has been branded as one of the many which are started from rumor and spread despite the fact that investigation proves them groundless. Some residents of the Tonawanda’s are said to have made nightly trips to the Knoche Road section but report finding nothing.

Via The Evening News, Tonawanda NY Friday, March 5, 1937

Ghost Girl of the Tonawanda article
Ghost Girl of the Tonawanda article