Winter Holiday Blog Share
Welcome to Mary's Garden. We're doing a week long blog share for the holiday's. Be sure to check them all our to make sure you don't miss out on goodies!
The weekly garden tip is...
Grow food
Just because it's winter doesn't mean you can't have fresh food from the garden. Greens such as lettuce, arugula and mustard, along with cold-weather crops including kale and Swiss chard can be grown in a cloche or cold frame. Many root crops and brassicas will overwinter for a spring harvest. For best results, check with your local nursery or extension service for winter vegetable gardening tips in your region.
As promised my mom's Christmas Stollen Recipe
4 lbs white flour
1 qt. lukewarm milk
lbs butter - cut into flour
1/4 lb yeast cake
1 lb currant or 2 lbs raisins and no currants
1 lb white raisins
1/2 lb almonds - cut fine - blnched
1/2 lb citron
1 tbsp nutmeg
1/2 tbsp rum
1 lb sugar
1 tbsp salt
1/2 tbsp cardimon
powered sugar
Make a sponge. Mix dough, using butter, sugar, spices and milk. Add flour. Add raisins and citron which have been soaked in rum. dd almonds. The dough should be allowed to raise twice for 1/2 hour each time. Knead well.
Shape in loaves. Let proof 15 minutes.
Bake 350 degrees for one hour. First half hour have steam in oven (water in a pan). Last half hour without water.
When baked brush with butter twice. Sift on powdered sugar. Brush again with butter and sift on powdered sugar. Keeps well. Wrap in wax paper. Put in brown bag and refrigerate.
Enjoy
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The Beckett Series
Blurb
Matt Beckett is the Chief Financial officer for World Banking Association (WBA). Over a year ago an agency known as the HEAD group tried to take over the WBA. Matt's sister, Reagan Beckett, a member of a Federal Special Task Force took out one of the key players, a serial killer known as the Headman. Now the founder of HEAD, Andrew Phillips, is back and ready to finish what he'd started with a new and dastardly key player from the Dark web.
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Bryn Connelly is the Chief Audit Executive also for the WBA. She had been one of the Headman's targets and thought her days of danger were over. However, she finds herself working with laid back Matt Beckett, much to her dismay.
Matt couldn’t be more delighted when Reagan informs him he'll be working the lovely Bryn. He’s been trying to catch her eye for five years, now. However, their sleuthing quickly lands them in a precarious position.
It’s up to Matt and Bryn to finish what Reagan and her team started, but can he win the lovely Bryn and save the day? Or will he lose her forever if the WBA falls into the wrong hands?
Also, the following books of mine are only $.99
Four Sisters
Three Brides and a Dress
Chick Magnet
Romance and Misconceptions
Watching Jenny
Classic Murder: Mr. Romance
Disappear (Book I The Beckett Series)
Good luck!
The weekly garden tip is...
Grow food
Just because it's winter doesn't mean you can't have fresh food from the garden. Greens such as lettuce, arugula and mustard, along with cold-weather crops including kale and Swiss chard can be grown in a cloche or cold frame. Many root crops and brassicas will overwinter for a spring harvest. For best results, check with your local nursery or extension service for winter vegetable gardening tips in your region.
As promised my mom's Christmas Stollen Recipe
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| Pic courtesy of Google Images |
1 qt. lukewarm milk
lbs butter - cut into flour
1/4 lb yeast cake
1 lb currant or 2 lbs raisins and no currants
1 lb white raisins
1/2 lb almonds - cut fine - blnched
1/2 lb citron
1 tbsp nutmeg
1/2 tbsp rum
1 lb sugar
1 tbsp salt
1/2 tbsp cardimon
powered sugar
Make a sponge. Mix dough, using butter, sugar, spices and milk. Add flour. Add raisins and citron which have been soaked in rum. dd almonds. The dough should be allowed to raise twice for 1/2 hour each time. Knead well.
Shape in loaves. Let proof 15 minutes.
Bake 350 degrees for one hour. First half hour have steam in oven (water in a pan). Last half hour without water.
When baked brush with butter twice. Sift on powdered sugar. Brush again with butter and sift on powdered sugar. Keeps well. Wrap in wax paper. Put in brown bag and refrigerate.
Enjoy
It's easy to enter for the $60 Amazon Gift Card. Here is what you need to do....
1. Visit the blog each day.
2. Leave a comment
3. Enter rafflecopter!
Each author will have instructions for their freebies.
Rafflecopter will be available December 11, 2017 The rafflecopter ended early (probably user error when I set it up.) Please comment and say enter me in the Rafflecopter and I will make sure your name is considered for the prize.
a Rafflecopter giveaway
I'll be giving away an eBook copy of:
The Beckett Series
Blurb
Matt Beckett is the Chief Financial officer for World Banking Association (WBA). Over a year ago an agency known as the HEAD group tried to take over the WBA. Matt's sister, Reagan Beckett, a member of a Federal Special Task Force took out one of the key players, a serial killer known as the Headman. Now the founder of HEAD, Andrew Phillips, is back and ready to finish what he'd started with a new and dastardly key player from the Dark web.
Matt doesn’t have any desire to be involved in any cloak and dagger stuff. He’d rather leave that to the other law enforcement Beckett’s. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like he'll have a choice.
Bryn Connelly is the Chief Audit Executive also for the WBA. She had been one of the Headman's targets and thought her days of danger were over. However, she finds herself working with laid back Matt Beckett, much to her dismay.
Matt couldn’t be more delighted when Reagan informs him he'll be working the lovely Bryn. He’s been trying to catch her eye for five years, now. However, their sleuthing quickly lands them in a precarious position.
It’s up to Matt and Bryn to finish what Reagan and her team started, but can he win the lovely Bryn and save the day? Or will he lose her forever if the WBA falls into the wrong hands?
Also, the following books of mine are only $.99
Four Sisters
Three Brides and a Dress
Chick Magnet
Romance and Misconceptions
Watching Jenny
Classic Murder: Mr. Romance
Disappear (Book I The Beckett Series)
Good luck!
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