Citations:newton

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English citations of newton

a cookie consisting of a sheath of dough (open on both ends) filled with a sweet fruit paste, formed by extrusion
context doesn't seem to clarify what it is
  • 1997, Matt Welter, Raspberry Island Red, →ISBN:
    [] teasing his nose with raspberry and peach newtons or vinegar left out on a plate if the flies can get through holes in the screen then so can he!
context clarifies, but it's genericized, people using it of their own versions
  • 2005 October 28, Mark F. Sohn, Appalachian Home Cooking: History, Culture, & Recipes, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN:
    Stack Pies: Made with fresh fruit or apple, peach, or pear butter, [] Single pies are comparable to fig or apple newtons, but because highlanders served them stacked up, maybe eight high, the pies were called stack pies.
  • 2014 August 26, Charmian Christie, The Messy Baker: More Than 75 Delicious Recipes from a Real Kitchen, Rodale, →ISBN, page 189:
    Fig and apricot newtons / The first recipe I ever created was my own version of Fig Newtons. I was 12. [...]