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Dutch Coffee Cake

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Dutch Coffee Cake

Course: after church coffee hour, Breakfast, Brunch
Cuisine: Dutch
Keyword: cake, coffee cake
Author: Mrs. Hils

Ingredients

  • 2½ cups flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 3 tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • nutmeg
  • cinnamon
  • brown sugar
  • 1 tsp lard
  • ¾ cup raisins
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup milk

Instructions

  • Sift together dry ingredients 4 times.
  • Into this rub 1 tsp of butter and 1 of lard.
  • Take out a little for crumbs on top.
  • Add raisins and 1 egg in a cup filled with milk.
  • Mix well.
  • Put in a pan.
  • Sprinkle with crumbs, cinnamon, and brown sugar
  • Bake in a moderate (350°-400°) oven for about 35 minutes

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Blitzkuchen (German Coffee Cake)

 

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Blitzkuchen

Course: after church coffee hour, Breakfast, Brunch
Cuisine: German
Keyword: coffee cake
Author: Matilda Joerg

Ingredients

Coffee Cake dough

  • ½ cup sugar
  • ½ cup butter
  • 4 egg yolks
  • ½ cup milk
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder

Topping

  • 4 egg whites
  • 1 cup sugar

Instructions

  • Mix coffee cake dough ingredients together and put the dough in the pan.
  • Beat the egg whites stiff and add 1 cup of sugar.
  • put egg whites & sugar mixture over top.
  • Bake.
  • Serve with whipped cream.

Notes

This recipe is an example of one of the main differences between current and truly vintage recipes- no oven temperature or indication of how long to bake for. 
I would suggest starting at 350º for 20 minutes and adding time from there.

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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

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Hamburgers with Creole Sauce

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Hamburgers with Creole Sauce

Course: Main Dish

Ingredients

  • 1 pound hamburger
  • 1 large onion minced
  • 1 cup celery chopped
  • 1/2 cup green pepper chopped
  • 1 pint crushed tomatoes
  • salt to taste
  • pepper to taste

Instructions

  • Brown Hamburgers in butter, add canned tomatoes to cover, and above ingredients.
  • Simmer slowly until well done (about 1 hour).

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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. Place 1-inch apart on a greased cookie sheet. Make a slight depression in center of each cookie. Bake 375° for 5 minutes. Then press center again. Bake 10 minutes longer. Cool slightly. Remove from sheet, fill center with jam. Makes 3 dozen.

Jackie Babins- Favorite Recipes: Tonawandas Grandmothers’ Club #93

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