There are easily a hundred others, but those come to mind. > “Opera glasses” and “binoculars” (two similar but distinct optical instruments) as exact synonyms. Fold each wonton in half to create a triangle. Dip a pastry brush or your fingers in water and moisten the edges of each wonton wrapper. Place a dollop of filling in the center of each wonton wrapper. Once all the butter is added, mix until you have a crumbly, doughy mixture. Use a stand mixer to whip together the cream cheese and apple butter to make the filling. Slowly drizzle the melted butter over the dry ingredients, tossing the mixture with a fork as you pour. > “Down home” (Not the southern usage for “folksy”, it merely meant the residence of any grandparent.) Make the streusel topping: In a medium bowl, combine the brown sugar, granulated sugar, flour, cinnamon, and salt. > “Sitting room” (Distinguished from a parlor, this was an auxiliary casual room with couch and armchair, usually smaller in size, where people could go when desiring private conversation while the living room was otherwise occupied.) Then, after everything became as still and peaceful as a mirror’s reflection, the winds stirred again, roiling Gyatso until the earth-mountain heaved forth, like so much butter in a vast churn. Combine the cookie crumbs and butter until thoroughly mixed. > “Wheel” (Apparently exclusive to my paternal grandparents and aunt, this was the term for a bicycle.) 1/4 cup apple butter Instructions To make the crust: Preheat oven to 350☏. Burns, Butcher, Butter, Butterfly, Buttons, Buttermilk, Buzzard. > “Icebox” (Never mind that it’s a frost-free electric refrigerator and that neither of us have ever seen an actual icebox-style food-cooler outside a museum that’s what our grandparents called it.) Anvil, Anxiety, Apes, Apparel, Apparition, Apples, Apprentice, Apricot, April. One of the first homes they rented was an apartment in the house of the widow who was my great-aunt, who served as an “honorary granny” to her for most of her early life.Ī lot of old rural upstate New York terminology got handed down through the two families – and every so often, fishing for the proper term, we’ll hit on one of it, and end up laughing over it. My wife’s parents lived a substantial distance from their own parents during her birth, childhood, and youth.
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