Brandy balls are the offspring of bourbon balls, which were created by Ruth Booe of the Rebecca Ruth Candy Company in Kentucky in the early 1900’s.The company was founded in 1919 by two schoolteachers, Rebecca Gooch and Ruth Booe. All during this past Christmas season, I had a hankering to make brandy balls. It wasn’t… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Black Annis Brandy Balls
Author: Flossie Benton Rogers
Paranormal romance author who loves to shake the edges of reality.
Hump Day Hook 1/29/14
LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION! How exciting to resume the Hump Day Hook blog project, where a number of talented authors post one paragraph from a published novel or WIP. It is such fun to read everyone’s work. Our intrepid organizer, Kerrianne Coombes, scheduled this week’s excerpt to be an action sequence. My selection is from Mind Your… Continue reading Hump Day Hook 1/29/14
Guest: Harper A. Brooks
HIS HAVEN The Redemption Series: Book One by Harper A. Brooks Ignorance isn’t always bliss… Handsome and diligent Avrum Brenin should have died in the fire with his mother and older brother. Instead, he is saved by the powerful and wealthy immortal, Lord Henri. Placed under his care, Avrum shares in his world of endless… Continue reading Guest: Harper A. Brooks
Mythic Monday: Black Annis Will Get You
In days not so long ago, English parents frightened their children into good behavior by the threat of “Black Annis will get you.” The custom is equivalent to the threat in America that “the bogeyman will get you.” In older, darker times, Black Annis instilled terror into the hearts of country folk, particularly around her… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Black Annis Will Get You
Cocktail Saturday: Mead Toddy
Mead or honey wine drove the Irish High Kings to victory thousands of years ago. Its popularity continued into medieval times, and today the delicious and deceptively potent beverage enjoys a remarkable resurgence. MEAD TODDY Ingredients: 1 bottle of Mead 1/2 teaspoon of ground nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon of ground ginger Cinnamon sticks Directions: This toddy… Continue reading Cocktail Saturday: Mead Toddy
Vintage Friday: Medieval Gyngerbrede
Medieval gyngerbrede or gingerbread is more like candy than the modern cake with which we are familiar. It is one of the sweet treats mentioned in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: “They fette hym first the sweete wyn, and mede eek in a mazelyn, and roial spicerye of gyngebreed that was ful fyn, and lycorys, and eek comyn,… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Medieval Gyngerbrede
Writer Wednesday: Jean Adams
It is my privilege to welcome author Jean Adams, whose latest book is No Other Love. Jean is the founder of Romance Writers of New Zealand! I admire what she says about her heroine and hero: “They are soul mates, and their love for each other goes soul deep.” 1. What inspired you to write… Continue reading Writer Wednesday: Jean Adams
Mythic Monday: St. Agnes Eve
On St Agnes Eve, January 20th, a young girl can experience a dream vision of her future husband, so the lore tells us, if she follows a carefully prescribed ritual: Fast all day, and bathe before preparing for bed. Sprinkle water onto a sprig of rosemary and a sprig of thyme, and place the herbs… Continue reading Mythic Monday: St. Agnes Eve
Cocktail Saturday: Muleskinner
Carrying over yesterday’s western theme, let’s mosey on over to an Old West saloon and join the cowboys and old timers in Dodge City and Deadwood. The harsh conditions of the frontier did not permit many fripperies. There were no mint sprigs or pitchers of freshly squeezed fruit juice. Saloon goers slugged down warm beer… Continue reading Cocktail Saturday: Muleskinner
Vintage Friday: Get Rowdy 1959
Television in 1959 thrummed with exciting cowboys and private eyes, as well as comedic bumblers and the unfortunates trapped in the dim recesses of The Twilight Zone. In honor of my husband’s birthday on January 15, let’s look back at one of his favorite television shows from when he was a kid in 1959. Long… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Get Rowdy 1959