These scones are just the thing to have with a cup of tea while enjoying one of my sexy Regency romances.

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Scones

3 cups flour

1/2 cup sugar

5 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

3/4 c. butter

1 egg, beaten

1 cup milk

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Lightly grease a baking sheet.

Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.

Cut in butter. Mix egg and milk together separately then add to the dry ingredients and butter.

Knead on a floured surface and then roll out 1/2" thick. Cut into triangles or circles and bake about 15 mins.

She's back and she's in trouble.

After a summer in the country Lady Katherine and her husband, Thomas, return to London to participate in all the festivities available to a Lord and his Lady. The scandal that forced them to marry is long forgotten and they are at the top of the social ladder.

In addition to the pleasures of an active social life, Lady Katherine is thrilled to learn that the friend who abandoned her in her time of need, Lady Lorena Arnold, is now the subject of a salacious scandal. Katherine can hardly believe her good fortune when she observes Lady Arnold en route to a tryst. But, before she can share the juicy tidbit with the other ladies of the ton, her husband lays down the law: No Gossip.

Will Katherine be able to keep her tale to herself? And if not, will her tail be at risk of a brisk spanking from the stern but loving Lord Winchester?

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This is a slight adaptation of an awesome muffin recipe—simply titled “Bettina's Cakes”—from one of the most awesome cookbooks ever published in English—“A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband With Bettina's Best Recipes”—written by Louise Weaver and Helen LeCron and published in early 1917. It's an interesting take on spice cakes from an even earlier era when chemical leavening wasn't completely understood or trusted, which as given makes eight muffins, but I've successfully doubled and tripled it to make larger batches, and it scales just fine.

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Bettina's Cakes

Recipe:

Measure out 1/3 cup of milk, and add to this one-half tablespoon vinegar. Stir and let sit.

Preheat your oven to 350F / 175C.

Grease your muffin tin.

Melt two tablespoons of butter.

In a mixing bowl, stir together:

1 cup flour

1/3 cup granulated sugar

½ teaspoon baking soda

¼ teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon powdered cloves

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

a pinch of salt

Add to this one egg and the sour milk, stir everything together and beat with a wooden spoon for one minute. Pour in the melted butter, and beat for two minutes more.

Fill muffin cups half full—it should half-fill eight normal-sized cups, neatly fitting in a normal twelve-hole muffin tin without using the corners—and bake for about twenty minutes. They're done when they pull away from the sides of the cups.

Rebecca always hurts the ones she loves. Except, okay, she didn't even like Emily and she only broke the other girl's nosetwice, but, still. Eager—nay, desperate—to make amends for these accidental injuries, she reluctantly agreed to drive her victim on a road trip over an extended weekend, shortly before they both graduate from high school. All she wanted was forgiveness, an easing of her troubled conscience. Never could Rebecca have guessed that her tall, quiet classmate was into women—or that she's exactly Emily's type...

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This is my grandmother’s recipe and I’ve been making it since I was a kid. I can remember standing at the counter next to her and she’d let me cut the biscuits out of the dough using a juice glass. Easy to make and so good hot out of the oven smothered in butter.

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RECIPE: Raisin Tea Buns

4 Cups Flour

8 tsp baking powder

½ Cup Butter

2/3 Cup Sugar

1 tsp Salt

2 eggs (well beaten)

1 Cup Milk

1 Cup Raisins

Combine dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, sugar and salt). Blend in butter. Add eggs and milk. (You may need to get in there with your hands at this point.) Add raisins.

Roll out and cut into circles. Or simply pinch off dough and roll into circles.

Bake at 400 degrees for 12-15 minutes. (I sometimes pop the oven on broil for a minute if the tops aren’t browned enough.)

VARIATION:

Make dough without raisins and roll it out into a rectangle shape. Lightly butter it then sprinkle brown sugar and raisins (or you can use brown sugar and cinnamon). Carefully roll dough into log shape. Cut into ½”-1” circles. Place in pan and bake for 10-12 minutes at 400 degrees. Makes great cinnamon rolls.

Seventh in the Tapestries series.

Samantha Calloway is desperately working to keep her farm from financial ruin. It’s the only thing she has left from her deceased family and she’s determined to make it a success at any cost.

Darian and Jace Hunter live in a world where women are in short supply and brothers must share. The magic tapestry has always brought a potential tapestry bride to Javara, but this time it transports the two brothers to a strange land.

When Samantha finds two strangers on her land she doesn’t believe their stories of magic tapestries and other worlds. But when she suddenly finds herself in Javara, she doesn’t know what to believe. And when the tapestry transports them all back to her farm, Sam has a choice. She must decide if she will be true to her family and their legacy or if she will abandon it all for a chance at love.

A Romantica® time travel erotic romance from Ellora’s Cave

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This is one of the first things I taught my kids to make when they were younger. It's so yummy and fast! These are great when you're busy writing and want something quick and easy, or on those mornings when you're on the run.

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3 tbsp. butter
1/3 c. brown sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tbsp. water
1 pkg. refrigerator biscuits

Combine butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, and water in a microwave-proof dish (I use a glass pie plate). Microwave on high 45 seconds-1 minute until melted together. Place biscuits on top of butter mixture (you can leave whole or cut in half to make smaller servings). Cook 2 minutes on high until done. Biscuits will not brown, but will rise and look dry/set up. If not done, microwave in additional 15 second increments until finished. Let cool 2 minutes before serving.

When Gillian receives an erotic striptease video that was meant for someone else, she winds up making a cellular connection she never dreamed of. Her mystery man, Kent Johnson, inspires her to indulge in phone sex in places she never dared, like the back booth in a bar or even huddled in her cubicle at work.

Kent is unbelievably hot, daring and ready to take on every naughty toy in her nightstand drawer. But he is not just her “safe” sexting partner—he turns out to be the boss at her new job. She might be ready to take on any position he can throw at her, but company fraternization is a strict policy the boss won’t compromise on—not even for her hot charms.
Gillian’s lonely nights are destined to return unless Kent can find a way for them to steam up the boardroom without jeopardizing their careers.

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It's my birthday tomorrow, so what better way to start my celebrations!

I am going to share with you a recipe that I use a lot. The kids love it, I love it and it's so easy, it takes minutes. And it's perfect for this time of the year!

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Shortbread Biscuits

The recipe is from my favorite cookbook; Mary Berry's complete cookbook--her easy recipes make even a bad cook like me look good!

*recipe has been changed a little from cookbook, to add a little Kerrianne ;-) *

125g (4oz) plain flour

60g (2oz) ground rice

125g (4oz) butter, plus extra for greasing.

60g (2oz) castor sugar, plus extra for sprinkling.

1 Mix the flour with the ground rice in a bowl. Add the butter and rub in with finger tips.stir the sugar. Knead the mixture lightly until it is a smooth dough.

2 lightly butter baking tray. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured work surface. Break off little balls and form into a rectangle shape. Note that when the dough cooks it will spread a little so give room on the tray for spreading. Prick with a fork.

3 bake in a preheated oven at 160oc (325f) gas mark 3. For 35 minutes, until golden--though in my experience, they need closer to 25minutes...

4 when you take them from the oven, sprinkle the still hot biscuits with sugar and then leave to cool. Or, in my house--eat immediately and moan about burned fingers afterwards!

My kids love to de orate them too. Fun. Easy and quick!

Hired demon hunter and paid debt collector, Snow White lives with her heart encased in ice and her mind set on survival—until she accepts the one job that threatens to turn her world upside down.

Blackmailed by hell gate demons, Snow has no choice but to accept the task of murdering a king. Dragged into a world of violence and death at a young age, Snow has no idea how to deal with king Sam, and his charm.

When Sam’s evil mother died fifteen years before, she left a him with the knowledge that one day, she would return unless Sam breaks the spell.

Living with the knowledge that he has to die on his wedding night in order to break his mothers spell, Sam has never allowed himself to dream of love…Until a little assassin breaks into his castle and steals his heart.

But deals have been made and magic has been cast. Fate has no power over what is in the past…

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And my blog address is; http://kerriannecoombes.wordpress.com/. Where you can find out about my other books and the rest of the Demon Tales in the series.

Food in many cases can set the place of a story more than any other factor.  Landscapes can repeat across the world, but put a plate of clotted cream on the table and you know where you are immediately.  English tea anyone.

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Clotted Cream

Ingredients:
2 pints full cream milk

Preparation:
Pour milk into a basin or dish, and leave in a cool place for at least 8 hours. The cream will rise to the top. Put the dish over a pot of boiling water. You may want to use a double boiler. Simmer the water until the cream begins to show a ring around the edge and the surface just begins to bubble. After about 45 minutes to an hour, remove from heat. Let the cream cool, and skim the clotted cream from the surface.

Splits

Ingredients
1 teaspoon active dry yeast
1 1/4 cups lukewarm milk
1 tablespoon white sugar
3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled

Directions
In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in the milk and add the sugar. In another bowl, sift the flour and salt together and add the cooled melted butter.

Add the yeast mixture to the flour mixture, and turn out onto a floured counter and knead until the dough is smooth and elastic. Place the dough in an oiled bowl, cover with a clean towel and let rise in a warm, draft free place to 45 minutes.
Turn dough out onto the freshly floured board and shape into 9 balls. Place dough balls into a buttered and floured 9 inch square pan. Let them sit, covered for another 15 minutes to rise again. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).

Bake for 15-20 minutes until browned and puffed. Split open and serve warm.

Tanley's boring life on Saint Michael's Mount gets a lot more complicated when a man is washed up on the beach. With her father dead, the neighbor smuggling, and a knife wound in the man's shoulder she's all alone with a whole lot of trouble.  At least she's not stuck getting rid of a body when he wakes up at long last, but delivering papers for the government to help pay the debt after the war with Napoleon makes the stakes higher than just a little smuggling.  Alone with James though temptation is hard to resist, if only getting caught didn't bring up a whole new set of problems.

 

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