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BERRIED SECRETS

Book 1 in the Cranberry Cove Mystery series

by

Peg Cochran

It’s cranberry picking time—in an all-new mystery series from the national bestselling author of the Gourmet De-Lite Mysteries…

When Monica Albertson comes to Cranberry Cove—a charming town on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan—to help her half-brother Jeff on his cranberry farm, the last thing she expects to harvest is a dead body.

It seems that Sam Culbert, who ran the farm while Jeff was deployed overseas, had some juicy secrets that soon prove fatal, and Jeff is ripe for the picking as a prime suspect. Forming an uneasy alliance with her high-maintenance stepmother, Monica has her hands full trying to save the farm while searching for a killer. Culbert made plenty of enemies in the quaint small town…but which one was desperate enough to kill?

INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES!

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Release date: Tuesday, August 4!

Peg is so excited about the release of her first book in the Cranberry Cove Mystery series, 

she want to not only share a recipe from the book, but all giveaway a copy!

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On to the recipe!

SASSAMANASH FARM COFFEE CAKE

Cranberries are one of the three fruits native to North America (the others are the Concord grape and blueberries.)  They are packed full of vitamin C and whalers used to carry them on their ships to prevent scurvy. Cranberries are grown in bogs which are flooded during harvest.  The berries are beaten from the vines and float to the surface thanks to air pockets inside the berries. 

Researching cranberries was so much fun! I visited a bog in Michigan and watched the harvest.  The sun glancing off the brilliant red of the cranberries in the flooded bog made a picture I’ll never forget!  And so was the look on the farmer’s face when I asked him what he’d do if a body floated up with the cranberries!  He did not have an answer for that. 

And cranberries are not just for Thanksgiving!  They are wonderful in many recipes.  Monica, the character in my Cranberry Cove series—Berried Secrets debuts on August 4—uses them in this recipe for coffee cake.

Ingredients

Cake

¼ lb. butter softened

1 cup sugar

2 eggs, beaten

1 tsp. vanilla extract

½ pint sour cream

2 cups sifted flour

1 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. baking soda

½ tsp. salt

1 ½ cups fresh cranberries, roughly chopped. 

Topping

½ cup chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans)

½ cup shredded coconut

½ cup sugar

1 tsp. cinnamon

Directions

Mix topping ingredients in a bowl and set aside

Cream butter and sugar together until light.  Beat in eggs, vanilla and sour cream one at a time.  Sift together dry ingredients in a separate bowl and add to wet mixture one third at a time.  Fold in cranberries.

Spread half the batter in a greased and floured tube pan.  Sprinkle with half the topping.  Spread remaining batter on top and sprinkle with remaining topping.

Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.  Let cool in the pan before removing.

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With a nice cup of coffee or tea. 

Or for this hot weather a glass of iced coffee or iced tea. 

Yum!

Please keep reading and check out my 

installments of 

Book Beginnings on Fridays

and

The Friday 56

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My Book Beginnings and Friday 56

 for this week are also from 

BERRIED SECRETS

Release Date: Tuesday, August 4!

Stop by my web site to read about my other series—Gourmet De-Lite, Sweet Nothings (written as Meg London) and the Lucille Series.  www.pegcochran.com.  I also have a page on Facebook: facebook.com/pegcochran.  I’d love to see you there! ~ Peg

Book Beginnings on Fridays is a meme hosted by Rose City Reader

Share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading

My Book Beginnings this week...

Monica Albertson coaxed her ancient Ford Focus up the last hill, past the boarded-up vegetable stand, the abandoned barn and the Shell Station. As usual, she paused at the crest. Cranberry Cove was spread out before her---a view that still thrilled her, even though it hand been five weeks since she'd fled Chicago for this idyllic retreat on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. 

From her vantage point, Monica could see the sparkling blue waters of the lake and the horseshoe-shaped harbor, where several white sails bobbed in the wind. The Cranberry Cove Yacht Club, where wealthy summer visitors sat on the deck sipping cold drinks, was a speck on the horizon, and the pastel-colored shops that lined Beach Hollow Road were bathed in a soft light by the early morning sun. 

Monica took her foot off the brake and rolled down the hill toward the town, relishing the cool breeze from her open window and the warmth of the sun on her arms. 

The Friday 56 is a meme hosted by Freda's Voice

Rules: *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader (If you have to improvise, that's okay.) *Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it) that grab you. *Post it.

My Friday 56 this week...

"You wouldn't happen to be able to give your brother an alibi for that time period would you?"

I'm reading this now and I am loving it! I was hoping to have it finished and a review written for this post, but I was able too. I will have my review posted in the next few days. 

I can tell you this, it is a wonderful book. A great start to a new series! 

GOOD LUCK!

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