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Authors: Jessica Beck
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variant of this recipe for fried rounds I wasn’t at all sure about it, but after I added and subtracted some of the listed ingredients and converted the recipe into one for dropped fritters, these tasty treats have found a good home with me and my family.
INGREDIENTS
Mixed
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1 cup cottage cheese, drained
• 2 tablespoons sugar, white granulated
• ¼ cup half-and-half
Sifted
• ¾ cup flour, unbleached all-purpose
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• Dash of salt
• Canola oil for frying (the amount depends on your pot or fryer)
INSTRUCTIONS
In one bowl, beat the cottage cheese, half-and-half, and the egg together. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, nutmeg, and salt.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet, mixing well until you have a smooth consistency.
Drop bits of dough using a small-sized cookie scoop (the size of your thumb, approximately). Fry in hot canola oil (360 to 370 degrees F) 1½ to 2 minutes, turning halfway through.
Yield: 10–12 fritters
CHAPTER 5
“Suzanne, maybe we should move our investigation to Pinerush,” Grace said as she started to head home.
“Do you think there’s a chance we’ll get anything out of them that we didn’t learn today?” I asked her. “James was killed in the park across from my shop, but I’m still not convinced that the murderer could be somebody from our town.”
She quickly glanced at me and then asked, “You don’t have any idea how much we’re talking about here, do you?”
“A couple of million, I guess.”
“More like a hundred million plus,” she replied.
I couldn’t help whistling softly at the news. “Maybe you’re right. That’s a lot of money, and that means a pretty strong motive, but I still think we’ll have more luck digging into James’s life in April Springs. After all, he wasn’t a threat to anybody in Pinerush. I’ve got the feeling that the stay in the mental ward was enough to make him want to do his best to forget about ever trying to give away his fortune again.”
“Why do you say that?”
“Think about it. Instead of getting a new attorney to keep fighting them after he was released, James ran away to April Springs and most likely did his best to put all of that behind him. I never had any idea that he came from money, and I knew him just about better than anyone else in town. Those three folks who inherited already had more money than they could ever know what to do with. There was no reason to kill him and risk going to jail.”
“That’s not how it works sometimes. With some folks, the more they have, the more they want. I still think that we should keep them all in mind as suspects,” Grace said.
“Don’t get me wrong; I agree, but I think it would be a mistake to put all of our focus on the three of them. Shoot, we don’t even know the name of one of them, unless you can track it down on the Internet. Just for now, let’s forget about focusing on the money. Who do we know in April Springs who might have wanted to see James dead?”
Grace nodded slightly. “I believe that his new apprentice might have had a grudge. James was riding him pretty hard, from what I’ve heard.”
“Where’d you hear that?” I asked.
“Suzanne, I hear things,” she said with a slight grin.
“Well, I don’t care what you heard. Murphy Armstrong is no killer,” I said. “And he wasn’t exactly an apprentice, either. James told me that the man worked for him two Saturdays a month learning some blacksmithing basics. That was it.”
“Maybe so, but he wasn’t exactly easy on him.”
“I don’t have the least bit of trouble believing that. James always demanded perfection from himself and everybody around him,” I replied. “If that was all it took, it would make Rebecca Link more of a suspect than Murphy.”
“Were they even still dating?” Grace asked. “I knew that James had seen her a while back—and pretty
INGREDIENTS
Mixed
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 1 cup cottage cheese, drained
• 2 tablespoons sugar, white granulated
• ¼ cup half-and-half
Sifted
• ¾ cup flour, unbleached all-purpose
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• Dash of salt
• Canola oil for frying (the amount depends on your pot or fryer)
INSTRUCTIONS
In one bowl, beat the cottage cheese, half-and-half, and the egg together. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, nutmeg, and salt.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet, mixing well until you have a smooth consistency.
Drop bits of dough using a small-sized cookie scoop (the size of your thumb, approximately). Fry in hot canola oil (360 to 370 degrees F) 1½ to 2 minutes, turning halfway through.
Yield: 10–12 fritters
CHAPTER 5
“Suzanne, maybe we should move our investigation to Pinerush,” Grace said as she started to head home.
“Do you think there’s a chance we’ll get anything out of them that we didn’t learn today?” I asked her. “James was killed in the park across from my shop, but I’m still not convinced that the murderer could be somebody from our town.”
She quickly glanced at me and then asked, “You don’t have any idea how much we’re talking about here, do you?”
“A couple of million, I guess.”
“More like a hundred million plus,” she replied.
I couldn’t help whistling softly at the news. “Maybe you’re right. That’s a lot of money, and that means a pretty strong motive, but I still think we’ll have more luck digging into James’s life in April Springs. After all, he wasn’t a threat to anybody in Pinerush. I’ve got the feeling that the stay in the mental ward was enough to make him want to do his best to forget about ever trying to give away his fortune again.”
“Why do you say that?”
“Think about it. Instead of getting a new attorney to keep fighting them after he was released, James ran away to April Springs and most likely did his best to put all of that behind him. I never had any idea that he came from money, and I knew him just about better than anyone else in town. Those three folks who inherited already had more money than they could ever know what to do with. There was no reason to kill him and risk going to jail.”
“That’s not how it works sometimes. With some folks, the more they have, the more they want. I still think that we should keep them all in mind as suspects,” Grace said.
“Don’t get me wrong; I agree, but I think it would be a mistake to put all of our focus on the three of them. Shoot, we don’t even know the name of one of them, unless you can track it down on the Internet. Just for now, let’s forget about focusing on the money. Who do we know in April Springs who might have wanted to see James dead?”
Grace nodded slightly. “I believe that his new apprentice might have had a grudge. James was riding him pretty hard, from what I’ve heard.”
“Where’d you hear that?” I asked.
“Suzanne, I hear things,” she said with a slight grin.
“Well, I don’t care what you heard. Murphy Armstrong is no killer,” I said. “And he wasn’t exactly an apprentice, either. James told me that the man worked for him two Saturdays a month learning some blacksmithing basics. That was it.”
“Maybe so, but he wasn’t exactly easy on him.”
“I don’t have the least bit of trouble believing that. James always demanded perfection from himself and everybody around him,” I replied. “If that was all it took, it would make Rebecca Link more of a suspect than Murphy.”
“Were they even still dating?” Grace asked. “I knew that James had seen her a while back—and pretty
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