All my library books have now been finished although I still have the huge book about the Great Bardfield Artists to look through.
What to choose off my shelves?
I picked A Lost Lady by Willa Cather , which is one of the books I found at the big Colchester Charity Book Sale in October.
I’ve read O Pioneers and My Antonia by her previously. This is the note about the book from Wiki
A Lost Lady is a 1923 novel by American writer Willa Cather. It tells the story of Marian Forrester and her husband, Captain Daniel Forrester, who live in the Western town of Sweet Water along the Transcontinental Railroad. Throughout the story, Marian—a wealthy married socialite—is pursued by a variety of suitors and her social decline mirrors the end of the American frontier.[1] The work had a significant influence on F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby.[2]
Separated into peanuts, raisons and almonds. The peanuts are enough for two batches of home-made peanut biscuits. The raisons will be chopped and used in the next loaf of spiced fruit loaf made in the bread-machine and the almonds will be blanched, chopped and used for almond biscuits with some drops of almond essence. Although last time I added them to the bag of mixed nuts when I made spiced roast nuts as one of my January treats – mustn’t make them again until next January – they are far too more-ish!
It seems a good way to make use of them – better than snacking – (the recipe for the Basic Biscuits is on the separate recipe page – scroll down to almost at the end)
