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Volume 17 Number 94
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Uptown Figs
24 dried figs
1 (3-oz.) package softened cream cheese
2 teaspoons powdered sugar
2 teaspoons orange liqueur
24 roasted, salted almonds
Cut a slit in large side of 24 dried figs, cutting to, but not through, stem end. Stir together 1 (3-oz.) package softened cream cheese, 2 tsp. powdered sugar, and 2 tsp. orange liqueur; fill each fig evenly with cream cheese mixture and 1 roasted, salted almond. Press figs to secure filling. Makes 24 servings.
*You can make this recipe ahead of time and store the figs in the refrigerator. Before serving, let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.
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AT THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
By Walter Mills
Ancient Churches of England
If there was an unintentional theme to our stay in England, then it must have been those ancient churches. We think of our own little church at home being old because it was built in the late 19th century, but these churches keep the record of their succession of pastors and their years of service that date back to the Middle Ages. One morning, we walked to the tiny village of Morland, a mile or two away from the cottage where we were staying, and visited the chapel with its Saxon tower and walked among the cemetery stones for an hour. Then we took the long, long way home through the beautiful Eden Valley, lost for a few hours between Great and Little Strickland west of the River Leith and looked down upon by the Cumbrian mountains.
Then there was Dove Cottage, where Wordsworth lived with his wife Mary and their children and sister Dorothy, all of whom are buried in the graveyard of St. Alban’s Church in Grasmere. We visited the cottage and the graveyard, and walked the shoreline of the lake that Wordsworth could view as he sat by his window composing the poems I once knew by heart.
Then on our way to London, we stopped at Haworth, a small town on the Yorkshire moors, where the Bronte sisters, Charlotte and Emily, are buried in the church next to the family pew. This burying of people below the church floor was common across England, though it seems strange to us here. In the great church of Westminster Abbey in London, I got a shiver as I looked at the floor where I was standing and saw that the bones of Isaac Newton were buried beneath me.
We toured St Paul’s Cathedral on Ludgate Hill with its splendid views of the City of London, if you are willing to climb hundreds of narrow steps to its dome. We stood at the windswept railing and looked at a thousand years of history spread out like a postcard and never wanted to leave.
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(The above column originally appeared in the Centre Daily Times and is copyright © 2014 by Walter Mills. All rights reserved worldwide. To contact Walt, address your emails to awmills@verizon.net ).
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