Ready for another Tasty Tuesday featuring a tempting muffin recipe by author Michele Stegman? I love sweet potatoes, so I’m going to have to try this one. Take it away, Michele!
Thank you so much, Betty, for letting me return for a second blog on your site! I love cooking and baking and it is so much fun to share recipes and history with your readers!
Food is an integral part of just about any romance, modern or historic. In Fortune’s Foe, the hero and heroine meet over a pan of sweet potato muffins.
The time is 1740, and the place is Spanish St. Augustine, just after the English attack on the city. Mariette has come to rescue her twin brother who was captured in the battle. The hero, Alexandro, is charged with keeping the English prisoners safe or he will forfeit his life. Disguised as a Mestizo, she is selling sweet potato muffins in the market hoping to find enough information to help her save her brother.
Alexandro is enthralled with the muffins, as well as this lovely woman, and hires her as his maid and cook. She is thrilled to get the job because it will give her a way to find out what she needs to know. Only one problem. A friend made those muffins. Mariette is a disaster in the kitchen.
As I was writing this story, I wondered what Mariette could be selling in the market that would lure the hero to her side. I decided on sweet potato muffins because they would have been a food eaten at the time. I love to cook and bake, but I must confess, I’ve never made sweet potato muffins. But I did get the recipe at Colonial Williamsburg, from Christina Campbell’s tavern so it should be authentic. You can find the recipe at either of these sites, or just Google Christiana Campbell’s Sweet Potato Muffins.
Sweets to Impress – Sweet Potato Muffins
Food.com – Christiana Campbell’s Tavern’s Sweet Potato Muffins
As for Fortune’s Foe, Mariette finds some help in the kitchen from a woman who ends up as the heroine in the next book in the series, Fortune’s Pride. You can find both books on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other sites. To check out my other books and to read excerpts, go to my website: www.MicheleStegman.com or connect with me on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/MicheleStegmanAuthor.
Fortune’s Foe
In the midst of a raging war, Mariette Fortune is torn between saving the life of her brother or the enemy Spaniard she has come to love.
Mariette Fortune knows her brother will die if she doesn’t rescue him–especially if the Spanish discover they hold captive the son of the infamous privateer, Sean Fortune. But she didn’t count on fallin in love with the man whose life depends on keeping the English prisoners from escaping. Now she has to choose between them.
Alejandro de Silva knows there is more to the lovely Mestiza woman he has hired to keep his house…more than she will admit. Regardless, he cannot help that he is falling in love with her. But he never dreams she is an English spy and that her presence in Spanish St. Augustine will put both their lives in deadly peril.
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Sweet potatoes are so good for you, too. I think I’ll be doing some baking soon. How about you? Do you have a favorite muffin recipe? Are you going to try these?
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