It's
Cozy Food Friday!
That means it's time to share a recipe from
another great cozy mystery!
Today I'm featuring a recipe from the cozy mystery
PEACHES AND SCREAM
Book 1 in the Georgia Peach Mystery series
by
Susan Furlong
In the first Georgia Peach Mystery, when murder threatens her family’s orchard, Nola Harper is ready to pick out the killer and preserve the farm’s reputation…
To help run the family peach farm during her parents’ absence, Nola Harper returns to her childhood home of Cays Mill, Georgia, and soon discovers that things back at the farm aren’t exactly peachy. A poor harvest and rising costs are threatening to ruin the Harpers’ livelihood, and small-town gossip is spreading like blight thanks to Nola’s juicy reputation as a wild teenager way back when. But Nola really finds herself in the pits when she stumbles upon a local businessman murdered among the peach trees.
With suspicions and family tensions heating up faster than a cobbler in the oven, this sweet Georgia peach will have to prune through a list of murder suspects—before she too becomes ripe for the killer’s picking…
INCLUDES RECIPES
Available now for pre-order and releases
Tuesday, July 7!
Susan is so excited about her new series starting, she wanted to share one of the recipes from
PEACHES AND SCREAM
two whole weeks before her book releases!
Today's recipe is
Scrumptious
Peach Cobbler
Ingredients
8-10
fresh peaches
1
lemon— juiced
¼
cup white sugar
¼
cup brown sugar
¼
teaspoon cinnamon
¼
teaspoon nutmeg
2
teaspoons cornstarch
Cobbler Topping
2
cups all-purpose flour
½
cup white sugar
½
cup brown sugar
2
teaspoons baking powder
1
teaspoon salt
1
½ sticks cold unsalted butter
½
cup hot water
2 tablespoons white
sugar for sprinkling
Photo from Google Images
Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Peach Mixture:
Peel and slice peaches (removing the pits) into
thin wedges and place inside a large bowl. Add the juice of one lemon and toss
to coat evenly.
In a separate bowl, combine ¼ cup white sugar, ¼
brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and cornstarch. Add this mixture to the peaches
and stir gently until peaches are coated.
Place peach mixture into a 2 quart
dish and bake for 10 minutes.
Photo from Google Images
Cobbler:
In a large bowl, combine flour, sugars, baking powder and salt. Cut cold butter into small pieces and mix into dry ingredients until slightly blended. The mixture should be crumbly.
Add hot
water, a little at a time, until a dough forms. Do not exceed ½ cup of hot
water. Remove peaches from the oven and drop spoonfuls of cobbler on top until
the peaches are covered.
Photo from Google Images
Sprinkle the entire cobbler with extra sugar. Place
the dish on a baking sheet in case it bubbles over while baking.
Bake for 30-40
minutes or until the crust is golden brown.
All photos property of Susan Furlong unless otherwise marked
Can anyone else smell this cobbler baking or
hear my stomach growing?
Yum!
Thank you so much, Susan!
MY REVIEW
Cozy readers, you are in for a sweet peach of a treat with
this first book in the new Georgia Peach Mystery series. Author Susan Furlong
has created a wonderful series with colorful characters, and a mystery that
will keep you entranced until the very last page.
Protagonist Nola Mae Harper is a perfectly imperfect
character which makes her so relatable. Poor Nola, she’s back home after
traveling the world and before she can even adjust, she finds a body. While of
course Nola takes part in the investigation (what good cozy heroine wouldn’t?),
Ms. Furlong didn’t write Nola being a know it all. She stumbled with finding
the truth like anyone inexperienced would.
The cast of supporting characters is like a bushel of
peaches…some sweet, some bitter, and some hiding behind too much fuzz. ;-) Buy
all are juicy to read and make for a perfect blend.
The writing in this story is crisp and clear. The words flow
as surely as the author’s pen must have over the paper she wrote one (or her
fingers on the keyboard). J It
will be so hard for you to not read PEACHES AND SCREAM in one sitting. Yeah,
it’s that hard to put down.
Oh, and each chapter starts with a delightful Georgia Belle
fact. I wanted to go through the book and read them all at once!
PEACHES AND SCREAM is no doubt one of the top new cozies of
2015. Well done Ms. Furlong. Brava!
Make sure to check out the back of the book for
mouthwatering peach recipes, and a sneak peek of Georgia Peach book 2, REST IN
PEACH!
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 from
PEACHES AND CREAM
Book 1 in the Georgia Peach Mystery series
by Susan Furlong
Share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading
My Book Beginnings...
Georgia Belle Fact #027:
In the South, we greet one another with bits of juicy gossip, not some ol' boring Yankee-like salutation.
I was idling on the corner of Blossom Street and Orchard, when the words came sailing through my open car window. "My word! Is that Nola Mae Harper I see?"
I snapped my head and squinted to the sidewalk where I spied the Crawford sisters sauntering along. I hadn't heard my full name, let alone that drawl I'd taken for granted in childhood, for a long time. I shot them a quick smile and waggled my fingers before moving down the road. . .
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...
". . . Our family is going through tough financial times."
He stood up, kicked at a few pebbles with the worn toe of his boot, and hitching his thumbs in his suspenders. "Aren't we all?"
Available July 7!
About the author
Susan
Furlong has lived throughout the United States, including the South,
but is now happily settled in the Midwest on a small hobby farm with her
husband and four children. Writing about peaches comes naturally to her as she
grows several varieties of her own. Susan also writes the Novel Idea
Mysteries under the pen name Lucy Arlington.
You can learn more about Susan by
visiting her website at
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