Ernestine Wiedrich – More Than a Cookie
Ernestine Wiedrich was a women who would have been one of
those pioneer women who settled the West if she had been born in the 1800s. But
Aunt Ernie was a woman of the twentieth century. She was born June 30, 1910 in
New York City to Emma (Krieger) and John Schramm who were German immigrants. At
4-yrs-old her family moved to Elba, Genesee County, NY and then to then to
Batavia, Genesee County a few years later. Around 1927 she married Chester
(Chuck) Wiedrich. Later they moved to Oakfield, NY. Life would not
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be easy. They had six children, three boys and
three girls. My great grandmother, Sarah, loved to go to her daughter-in-law's house because
she had such a good time. Aunt Ernie was fun to be around and was a good cook.
On my family’s yearly vacation we would be sure to visit and spend the night.
Their house was a humble dwelling and quite different than our house in the
city. They had running water in the kitchen but the bathroom was an outhouse in
the back yard. At night there was a Murphy pot under the bed. I was just 13
when she passed away in 1964 but she is still with us in the form of her cookies.
Her sour cream cookies and soft molasses cookies were delicious. I still use
her recipes. My children would never try the sour cream cookies. You know how
kids are – just hearing the word sour cream turned them off. So I started to
call them Aunt Ernie cookies. Now even though they are grown and have their own
families they still ask when I’m making Aunt Ernie’s cookies again. I wish they
could have known her as more than a cookie.
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Ernestine and Sarah
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