This centuries-old English dessert is not only simple and delicious, but it’s also an excellent vehicle for using up leftover fruits, jams, syrups and other bits and bobs from your refrigerator and pantry.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes
Of all the cakes she’s baked, there’s just one this cookbook writer makes for Passover
Elinor Klivans wrote 14 baking books from her home in Camden. But for Passover there is just a single dessert: Mom’s Walnut and Wine Passover Cake.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Maine Authors
A resilient Greek nanny changes the course of her young charge’s life
In ‘My Xanthi,’ a now-adult Nick reads his nanny’s old letters and comes face to face with the brutality of her life in wartime Greece.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: Try live staking to prevent runoff from harming lakes, ponds and streams
If you own waterfront property, consider creating a buffer zone. It’ll help curb pollution.
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April 2, 1973: Meat boycott underway nationwide and ‘meatless’ meals pose no problems for ladies of a Fairfield church, open water season begins and the fish are few in Bingham, and Vassalboro fire deemed suspicious
Visit Centralmaine.com/archive to view nearly 200 years’ worth of history at your fingertips.
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Tell us why you love your mom: Upload a video and send it to us before Mother’s Day
Contest ends Friday, May 5th. We’ll pick our favorite video from the bunch and the winner will be eligible for a small prize!
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April 1, 1918: Smallpox discovered in Augusta boy after recent appendicitis surgery, Solon High School receive patriotic flag during event, and local news from the long but not forgotten village of Iceboro
Visit Centralmaine.com/archive to view nearly 200 years’ worth of history at your fingertips.
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March 31, 1970: Planned Vassalboro rock festival hits snag, Maine’s governor favors strict license control program which could be ‘last resort’, and Apollo 13 blasts off on April 11 for ‘riskiest moon journey yet’
Visit Centralmaine.com/archive to view nearly 200 years’ worth of history at your fingertips.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine, News
The Sea Dogs will soon be back, along with the Sea Dogs Biscuit
The Gifford’s HomeMaine Ice Cream treat will be available at the Portland Sea Dogs home opener and for the remainder of the team’s 2023 season
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Tell us why you love your mom! Upload a video and send it to us before Mother’s Day.
Contest ends Friday, May 5th. We’ll pick our favorite video from the bunch and the winner will be eligible for a small prize!