Get ready to fire up your ovens and show off your baking skills at this year’s Niagara County Fair Brownie Baking Competition -held in honor of the Erie Canal Bicentennial! This special celebration pays tribute not only to 200 years of canal history but also to a delicious legend: the famous barge cook, Oliver Wendell Petrie. who is said to have served brownies for the crew of the Empire State oil tanker in the late 1930s. Now it’s your turn to channel that sweet legacy! Enter your best batch of brownies and compete for ribbons, bragging rights, and a chance to be part of Erie Canal culinary history. Let’s bake up a storm and celebrate two centuries of innovation, tradition, and irresistible chocolate!

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