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White Cedar Inn Bed and Breakfast 178 Main Street Freeport, Maine 04032

Rhubarb Pie

There's nothing like rhubarb pie in January to make you think of spring! With a nice cup of tea or mug of hot cocoa, you can almost pretend it's warm outside!

Ingredients:

We use pie crust from the store, but if you have a light touch with pie crust, it's always better from scratch!

1- premade pie crust in baking pan

1- sheet of pie crust, defrosted

1 1/2 c chopped rhubarb (fresh or, defrosted and drained)

1 1/2 c strawberries or mixed berries, cut into bite-sized pieces

1/2 c sugar

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 stick butter, sliced

Preheat oven to 375. Bake pie crust for 8-10 minutes, remove from oven.

Mix rhubarb, berries, sugar and vanilla together in small bowl. Pour into baked pie crust so it is mounded up. Dot top of fruit with pats of butter.

Cut the sheet pie crust into strips (see photo) and weave into place over fruit, leaving space for the steam to escape. Pinch & crimp edges.

Bake for 20 minutes or until bubbly. Serve warm with ice cream or whipped cream.

Printable Recipe, click here.

White Cedar Inn Bed and Breakfast 178 Main St Freeport, Maine 04032

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White Cedar Inn Bed and Breakfast 178 Main St Freeport, Maine 04032

Maine Christmas Bird Counts

Today (Jan 1) was the day for the Freeport-Brunswick area to complete the Christmas Bird Count. I got a cardinal at Winslow Park. Of course there were a lot of ducks in the water around the park, but because I don't know a wigeon from a widget, suffice it to say they were brown ducks and let it go at that. I really need to go out with someone who knows this stuff!

Of course, I also saw a cockatoo but it was perched on someone's shoulder so I don't think it counts toward the CBC!

Gorgeous day out there, the park was packed. Hope we get a few more like this before the snow comes.

For more information about the Maine Christmas Bird Count (CBC) check out the Maine Audubon website.

Happy New Year! 

White Cedar Inn Bed and Breakfast 178 Main St Freeport, Maine 04032

Freeport, Maine Kid Things to Do

Always looking for things to do with kids in Freeport. Although the lobster petting zoo is no longer, kids can still get to see and touch lobsters at a variety of places. (And not just on their plates at a restaurant!)

 

This is a fairly rare, 2-toned lobster. It was 2-toned on the underside as well, even the 'meat' not just the shell. There were also blue lobsters and calico lobsters in the tank. (The squiggly white lines are a reflection of the overhead lights on the water, not some weird life form!)The lobsters here are fed haddock. In the wild they'll go after any kind of bait fish.

Other ideas for things to do with kids while you're on vacation in Freeport:

1. Help catch the lobsters on a lobster boat cruise.
2. Check out the migration of the alewives in May & June.
3. Make sand castles, play in the waves, head to the beach.
4. Deliver the mail to the Casco Bay Islands on the mail boat.
5. Find animal tracks in the snow, learn to snowshoe.
6. Check out the old time cars, planes, motorcycles and more.
7. Build a fairy house out in the woods.
8. Sweat it out in the desert.
9. Lots of kid-tested things to do around Freeport! Just ask.

White Cedar Inn Bed and Breakfast 178 Main St Freeport, Maine 04032

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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