Recipes from Laura Child's 'Chamomile Mourning'

a.  Almond Cake to Die For

1  cup butter
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 jar almond filling
1 tsp vanilla extract
2-1/4 cups all-purpos flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup milk
2 Tsp orange zest

Beat butter adn sugar, and add eggs one at a time.  Beat in almond filling and vanilla extract until blended.  I separate bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt.  Add to almond mixture, a little at a time, mixing milk i slowly.  Add orange zest and beat until batter is blended.  Spread batter evenly in a greased ad flouted 10'' tube pan or a large Bundt pan.

Bake for almost an hour.  Cook

b.  Haley's Strawberry Biscuits

1 cup dicd strawberries
3 Tbsp sugar
2 cups  flour
1 Tbsp baking powdr
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
6 Tbsp cold butter
3/4 cup buttermilk

Toss strawberries with 2 Tbsp sugar, and set aside.  Sift together flour, remaining sugar, aking powder, aking soda, and salt, then cut in the butter.  Stir in strawberries, coating them with flour.  Stir in buttermilk until flour mixture is moist.

Gently knead the flour on a floured work surface.  Pat to about 3/4'' thick, then use a 2'' biscuit cutter to stamp our rounds. Bake for 20 mins at 450 degrees

Around 16 biscuits

c.  Cranberry-Orange bread

2 cups flour
1 c up sugar
1-1/2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
2 Tbsp shortening
1 gg, beaten
3/4 cup orange juice
Granted rind of 1 orange
1 cup raw cranberries
1/2 cup broken pecans

Mix flour, sugar, aking powder, and salt.  Cream in shortening, egg, orange juice, and orange rind.  Fold in cranberries and nuts.  Bake in greased pan for 50 mins at 350 dg.  Cool before slicing.

d.  Theo's Coco Macaroons

3 egg whites
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
5 cups flake coconut

at egg whitesu ntil stiff, then fold in the rest of ingredients until nicely mixed.  Drop rounded spoonfuls onto a cookie sheet, and bake for 15 mins in 300 deg oven.

3 dozen cookies

e.  Raspberry Choco Chip Muffins

1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vailla
1 tsp orange zest
1 cup choco chips
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup milk
2 cups raspberries

Cream butter and sugar together, then add vanilla and orange zest.  Mix together choco chips, 2 cups flour, and baking powder in a separate bowl.  Now add dry ingredients, one at a time, to wet mixture.  Slowly add i milk, then fold in raspberries

Bake at 375 deg for 30 mins

8-10 muffins

f.  Cinnamon Apple Scones

6 Tbsp bbutter
2 cups chopped appls
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 Tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup whipping cream
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2 Tbsp granulated sugar

Melt 3 Tbsp butter, and cook apples over medium heat.  Stir frequently until tender.  Stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt i a mixing bowl, then cut in remaining 3 Tbsp of utter until mixture is coarse.  Add whipping cream and apples and mix by hand until dough forms a ball.

Knead dough on floured surface 5-6 times.  Flatten dough to form an 8'' circle, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar mixture, and cut into 12 wedges.  Bake at 400 deg for 30 mins. 

g. Blueberry Sour Cream Muffins

1/4 cup applesauce
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1-1/4 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup sour cream
1 cup blueberries

Stir applesauce, sugar and eggs.  Combine flour and baking soda, then blend in wet mixture.  Stir in sour cream, followed by blueberries.  Spoon batter into muffin tins (1/4 cup full). 

Bake at 400 deg for 15 mins

h.  Marmalade and Cream Cheese Tea Sandwiches

Mix 2-3 Tbsp of orange marmalade and approximately 1/3 cup chopped pecans into softened cream cheese.  Spread onto bread, and cut off crusts

i.  Flourless Choco Tea Cake

12 oz semisweet chips
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 tea bag
3 eggs
Whipped cream

Melt choco chips, butter, sugar, water, and contents of tea bag over medium heat, stirring for 3-4 mins. Remove from heat and fold in eggs, until mixture is smooth.  Pour ito 9'' pie plate lied with waxed paper.  Bake for 12 mins at 425 degrees.  Cool, cover loosely, and refrigerate overnight until cake sets

Remove from refrigerater, and allow cake to sit for 15 mins.