A Good Read and a Recipe

by Beverly Jennings

Life is frustrating for a self-willed teenager, especially when her parents are Maria and Walter from the Maria Series. The early years of the 1950's finds Alma fighting against her parent's old fashioned ideas and rules. But Alma still manages to fit many exploits into her life while working at Aunt Maggie's riding stable. She and boyfriend Adrian discover a stranger living at an old plantation house and Adrian is determined to discover his identity. Even though forbidden by her mother to join Adrian, she breaks the rules anyway, sure that they will come across at least an ax murderer. Find out who the stranger is while looking back at the Fabulous Fifties as they were.

All Night Apple Butter

Ingredients 

8 pounds apples - peeled, cored, and sliced

• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg

• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons water, or more as needed
• 1 tablespoon each vanilla extract and maple flavoring
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• • Directions
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  • After supper, Peel, Slice and Place apples in a slow cooker.

1. Stir white sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt together in a bowl; pour over apples. Add enough water to moisten apples.
2. Cook on Low, overnight or 10 hours.
3. Stir vanilla and maple extract into apples. Cook, uncovered, for 2 hours more.