{"id":3827,"date":"2019-09-23T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marigoldonline.net\/?p=3827"},"modified":"2019-09-23T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T16:26:11","slug":"back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marigoldonline.net\/?p=3827","title":{"rendered":"Back to School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Visiting my granddaughter, a sophomore at Hobart William Smith in Geneva, NY, was great fun not counting getting to and from which required multiple forms of transportation\u2014missing only travel by Conestoga wagon.  I started at 8 AM, (bus to Newark Airport, plane to Rochester, rental car to Geneva), and pulled into my lodgings, a place that made the Bates Motel look good, after 4 PM. Was it worth the effort?\u2014100 percent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe toured the lovely campus awash in green lawns and flowers ahead of\nthe snow which will undoubtedly arrive in October. There were meals at several\nrestaurants, one clearly a place for college kids only when taken there by\nsomeone else. Winds often whip smartly in from Seneca Lake but on Saturday all\nwas calm and very warm. My student was occupado<\/em>\nwith masses of work so I spent the afternoon revisiting Seneca Falls, home of\nthe first Women\u2019s Rights Convention in July, 1848.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Cady Stanton\u2019s home is right on the lake. A woman Park Service Ranger waved me inside the modest house where Stanton raised her seven children, (all of whom had malaria and survived, something of a rarity in those days.) The only original materials left are the family piano and wallpaper in one room. The simple, airy house takes about a half hour to view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stanton and two of her brood
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The National Women\u2019s Hall of Fame was closed because new\nmembers (Sonia Sotomayor, Jane Fonda, Angela Davis and others) were being\ninducted at a ceremony elsewhere but tickets to this event were sold out.\n\nI had an unremarkable\nlunch, wandered through a shop of women-made goods and visited the Museum of\nWaterways and Industry housed in the Visitors Center. In early days, Seneca\nFalls was known for pump manufacturing along with building fire engines\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Justice Sotomayor <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

After \u201cbrunch\u201d with the student and a friend at the\nstudent dining center Sunday, it was time to get back in my adorable red Ford\nFusion and start the return trip home. By then I\u2019d mastered most of the car\u2019s\nfancy electronics including how to dim the bright lights, helpfully explained\nby the Parks Department guide at the Stanton House. \n\nGlad I went; glad to\nreturn home. \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Penn Yan, a town near Geneva, is the buckwheat capital of\nthe U.S. So\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buckwheat\nCrepes <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buckwheat Crepes<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

1\u00bc cups buckwheat flour
\n\u00bc teaspoon salt
\n3 eggs
\n\u00bd stick butter, melted
\n1 cup milk
\n1 cup water<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Combine flour and salt in a\nlarge bowl. Whisk in eggs, melted butter, milk, and water. Batter will be much\nmore runny than pancake batter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heat 8- or 10-inch nonstick\nskillet to medium-high. Apply a light coating of butter and ladle or pour about\na quarter cup of batter into hot pan. Pour in an expanding circular pattern,\nthen tilt pan to spread batter even more, so crepe is as thin as possible.\nDon\u2019t worry, once browned they don\u2019t tear easily. If pan is too hot or too cool\nand batter doesn\u2019t start cooking immediately without burning, adjust heat\naccordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After about a minute, use a\nnon-stick spatula to loosen all around the rim of the crepe, then flip, using\nspatula and\/or fingers. (It may take one or two sacrificial crepes, but you\u2019ll\nget a rhythm. As the second side lightly browns (usually about another minute),\nslide crepe onto a plate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Either serve immediately or stack with waxed paper or plastic wrap between each for heating and serving later. For filling: fresh fruits or jam, cheese and ham, eggs and spinach, Nutella, honey and yogurt, ice cream. I These are almost exactly like crepes served in Brittany\u2014which is easier to get to than Geneva, NY. But minus the delightful granddaughter.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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