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Letter to the Buffalo News: Make an effort to save lovely St. Ann Church – Broadway Fillmore Alive

I realize that I am biased since so many members of my family were baptized & married at St. Ann’s (and my great grandfather was a long time Scoutmaster), but we need to save St. Ann’s. I don’t know Sandi Russo, but I do know she was spot on in her thinking when she sent this […]

Buffalo Buffalo History retail geekery

Torn down Tuesday: Make way for the Main Place Mall – BN Chronicles

From the roof of AM&A’s in 1960, very few of the buildings seen here would still be standing a decade later. While the venerable Buffalo retailing names like Tanke and Ulbrich, which dated back to the 1850s and 1870s, would hold on until the 1980s, the buildings they’d called home for generations would not. Most […]

Buffalo History Desserts Holidays International Foods Meet the Millers Mexican recipe thrift store finds

Mexican Twelfth Night Bread

This recipe for Mexican Twelfth Night Bread is another classic recipe from “Meet the Millers“. In a poor decision the recipe was released 4 days afterthe traditional celebration of Twelfth Night (released Tuesday January 9, 1958; Twelfth Night is traditionally celebrated January 5th). They tried though.

baking Buffalo Buffalo History Christmas Cookies! Desserts Favorite Recipes Tonawanda Grandmothers' Club #93 Holidays

Christmas Wreaths

Christmas Wreaths 1 cup soft shortening ½ cup brown sugar 2 eggs (separated) 2 cups sifted flour ½ teaspoon salt 2 cups chopped nuts or cocoanut ½ cup raspberry or strawberry jam Cream shortening and sugar. Add egg yolks, flour, salt. Mix well. Shape 1-inch balls, drop into unbeaten egg whites, then in chopped nuts. […]

DeGraff Memorial Hospital 75th Anniversary Cookbook
baking Christmas Cookies! DeGraff Memorial Hospital 75th Anniversary Cookbook Desserts Holidays recipe

Yuletide Cookie Recipe

Yuletide Cookies 1 cup butter 2/3 cup sugar 1 egg 2 ¼ cup flour salt vanilla Cream butter, add sugar, egg, other ingredients; chill. Roll out thin, use cutouts. Bake 350° until lightly browned. Ice with confectioners icing and decorate. Ruth Lockman, DeGraff Memorial Hospital 75th Anniversary Cookbook Printer Friendly copies: yuletide cookies 3×5 card […]