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RUSSIAN SPICE TEA
RUSSIAN SPICE TEA
Ingredients:
1 cup instant orange juice mix (Tang or any other brand)
3/8 cup instant tea
½ pkg pre-sweetened lemonade mix
½ tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground cloves
¾ cup sugar, to taste (if using a sugar substitute, use 10 pkg)
Directions:
Mix ingredients together. Store in airtight jar. Use when needed to make instant Russian
Spice Tea. Use 2 tsp of mix to 1 cup hot water. (Also good served cold with ice.)
Author’s Bio:
Kristie Leigh Maguire is the author of the ultra-sensual romance novel, Desert
Triangle - soon to be published with Southern Charm Press.
Visit Kristie at
Kristie and her husband have lived in all over the United States and many foreign
countries while following his career. While living in Japan, Kristie found it very difficult
to find books to read that were written in English. This situation was intolerable, as she
was an avid reader. In desperation she began writingher own books just to have
something to read. She discovered a new passion in writing; thus her career as a romance
novelist was born.
Although Kristie is originally from the South and still remains Southern at heart,
she and her husband now reside in a small town in the high desert of Southern Nevada in
between international assignments.
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GRAM HARRY’S HOME-CANNED GARDEN-FRESH RASPBERRY
JAM
Excerpt from This is the Place:
The Christmas fruit thing came to Stella’s closed eyes. It had happened just before
Stella and Garret’s first Christmas as a married couple. The Eccles family was cracking
nuts for Harriet’s infamous fruitcake. Stella was certain that, over the years, more than
one molar had been broken on shell fragments in Harriet’s cake. Stella was trying to pick
the sharp debris from the mix in the bowl.
“Hand me the nigger toes. I’ll crack those,” Bernice had said.
Stella looked at the bowl, the assorted nuts hard and unyielding in shades of
browns, like a bowl full of topaz gems. “What. Which... What are you saying, Bernie?”
“Yes. The ones that look like nigger toes.”
“They’re called Brazil Nuts, Bernice. Braz-il Nuts. There’s a whole lot in a name
and these,”—Stella picked one up between her thumb and forefinger—“are Brazil Nuts.”
“Well, you don’t have to take it personally. You aren’t colored.”
“No, just not acceptable.” Stella remembered that her face felt bloodless and her
hands tingled.
“Well, this is just like you. Uppity.”
Stella picked up her uppity coat from the back of the chair she had been sitting in
and tilted her head—a “let’s go” motion—at Garret. Harriet put a bottle of her homemade
raspberry jam in Stella’s hand.
“Take this,” Harriet said. “It will taste real good on your toast in the morning.”
Gram Harry’s Home-Canned Garden-Fresh Raspberry Jam
Ingredients:
1 cup instant orange juice mix (Tang or any other brand)
3/8 cup instant tea
½ pkg pre-sweetened lemonade mix
½ tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground cloves
¾ cup sugar, to taste (if using a sugar substitute, use 10 pkg)
Directions:
Mix ingredients together. Store in airtight jar. Use when needed to make instant Russian
Spice Tea. Use 2 tsp of mix to 1 cup hot water. (Also good served cold with ice.)
Author’s Bio:
Kristie Leigh Maguire is the author of the ultra-sensual romance novel, Desert
Triangle - soon to be published with Southern Charm Press.
Visit Kristie at
Kristie and her husband have lived in all over the United States and many foreign
countries while following his career. While living in Japan, Kristie found it very difficult
to find books to read that were written in English. This situation was intolerable, as she
was an avid reader. In desperation she began writingher own books just to have
something to read. She discovered a new passion in writing; thus her career as a romance
novelist was born.
Although Kristie is originally from the South and still remains Southern at heart,
she and her husband now reside in a small town in the high desert of Southern Nevada in
between international assignments.
103
GRAM HARRY’S HOME-CANNED GARDEN-FRESH RASPBERRY
JAM
Excerpt from This is the Place:
The Christmas fruit thing came to Stella’s closed eyes. It had happened just before
Stella and Garret’s first Christmas as a married couple. The Eccles family was cracking
nuts for Harriet’s infamous fruitcake. Stella was certain that, over the years, more than
one molar had been broken on shell fragments in Harriet’s cake. Stella was trying to pick
the sharp debris from the mix in the bowl.
“Hand me the nigger toes. I’ll crack those,” Bernice had said.
Stella looked at the bowl, the assorted nuts hard and unyielding in shades of
browns, like a bowl full of topaz gems. “What. Which... What are you saying, Bernie?”
“Yes. The ones that look like nigger toes.”
“They’re called Brazil Nuts, Bernice. Braz-il Nuts. There’s a whole lot in a name
and these,”—Stella picked one up between her thumb and forefinger—“are Brazil Nuts.”
“Well, you don’t have to take it personally. You aren’t colored.”
“No, just not acceptable.” Stella remembered that her face felt bloodless and her
hands tingled.
“Well, this is just like you. Uppity.”
Stella picked up her uppity coat from the back of the chair she had been sitting in
and tilted her head—a “let’s go” motion—at Garret. Harriet put a bottle of her homemade
raspberry jam in Stella’s hand.
“Take this,” Harriet said. “It will taste real good on your toast in the morning.”
Gram Harry’s Home-Canned Garden-Fresh Raspberry Jam
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