A Misty Morning Murder (Myrtle Grove Garden Club Mystery Book 4)
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Sadie’s Sunday Meatloaf
Ingredients:
1 lb. 85% lean Beef
½ lb. Italian sausage from butcher counter
1 cup Cracker crumbs, finely crushed (about 30 regular crackers)
2 Eggs
¼ cup Milk
½ cup Catsup/Ketchup
¼ cup diced Onion
1 tablespoon Worchester sauce
1 ½ - 2 teas. Seasoning (about ¼ teas. each of sea salt, pepper, sage, mustard seed, celery seed, garlic powder)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Thoroughly mix ingredients together and mold into loaf pan.
Bake uncovered for approx. 1 ½ hours.
The last 15 minutes, spread the top of loaf with additional catsup and return to oven.
When done, let sit 5-10 minutes before cutting—and ENJOY. This meatloaf is even better the second day.
(Tip for crushing crackers: A quart-sized freezer bag keeps the crackers together and avoids getting crumbs on the counter. A rolling pin is perfect for crushing the crackers inside the bag. If you don’t have a rolling pin, use a sturdy glass jar or glass.)
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Lemon Zest Pound Cake
Ingredients:
2 cups All-purpose Flour
3 teas. Baking Powder
1 teas. Salt
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons Lemon Zest
2 Eggs
1 1/2 teas. Vanilla
¼ cup Milk
Juice of one Lemon
¼ cup Shortening
¼ cup softened Butter/Margarine
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Combine all ingredients in mixing bowl.
Mix at low speed for 30 seconds, scraping sides of bowl constantly
Mix at high speed for 3 minutes, scraping occasionally
Pour into greased and floured loaf pan
Bake at 350 degrees for 60/70 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean
When done, let cool, remove from pan, and drizzle with lemon glaze.
Glaze Directions:
1 cup confectioner’s sugar, 1-2 tablespoons lemon juice, 1 teaspoon zest (finely grated)
Add 1 tablespoon lemon juice to powdered sugar and mix, increasing lemon juice slowly until the glaze reaches drizzling consistency. Sprinkle with lemon zest.
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For a sneak peek at Deadly Purr-suasion: A Little Bit of Magic Mystery, read on:
Excerpt from
DEADLY PURR-SUASION:
A LITTLE BIT OF MAGIC MYSTERY
Loulou Harrington
Editor’s Note: Loulou Harrington is the author of the Myrtle Grove Garden Club mysteries, whose third book Murder on a Silver Sea, was the inspiration for this short story. When Loulou isn’t writing or gardening in her little piece of Oklahoma heaven, she and her husband are indulging their love of adventure on a small sailboat in the waters of Washington’s Salish Sea, home of the San Juan Islands featured in her new mystery series.
Chapter Two
Wow! Rhee Abbott paused in her trek up the winding path from the boat dock to take in the white Queen Anne Victorian sitting in solitary splendor at the top of the hill. The new bed and breakfast was bigger than she had imagined. And even more remote, she realized, after plane and boat hopping from one small island off the coast of Washington State to another. She had arrived but still wasn’t sure exactly where “here” was.
“You need help with your bag?” The other passenger on the boat, a young man named Tom, had stopped and turned back to wait for her. He already pulled one of her bags behind him in addition to carrying his own tools.
Rhee adjusted the travel bag she’d slung over her shoulder. “No, thanks. You’re already doing more than enough.”
Gordon Pitts, captain of the runabout that had brought them from Orcas Island, looked back over his shoulder. “Is there a problem?” He also pulled two more of Rhee’s bags.
“No. No problem.” She waved a hand vaguely in the direction of the house they were trekking toward while thinking that four bags had seemed reasonable when she’d left home. Now they seemed excessive and more than a little embarrassing. “Just taking in the surroundings.”
To make her point, she looked toward the house again, and it was then that she noticed the cat. A white cat, to be exact, sitting at the edge of the gravel pathway a few yards in front of the inn. It stared back at her with a single-minded focus.
“Beautiful cat,” she said in surprise. “Does he live here?”
“We don’t have a cat,” Gordon said. “Better keep moving. That ceiling needs to be fixed today.” He turned and continued toward the house.
When Rhee looked again, the cat was gone.