Spotlight and Recipe for French Quarter Fright Night by Ellen Byron

French Quarter Fright Night (Vintage Cookbook)
by Ellen Byron

About French Quarter Fright Night

French Quarter Fright Night (Vintage Cookbook)
Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series
Setting – the Garden District of New Orleans
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Severn House (September 3, 2024)
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1448312655
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1448312658
Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CTHQXNM5

The third in the fabulous cozy mystery series with a vintage flair from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Ellen Byron.

Welcome to the Bon Veeevil Festival of Fear! Prepare for the spookiest night of your life . . .

It’s Halloween in New Orleans, and the staff of Bon Vee Culinary House Museum is setting up a fantastic haunted house tour for their visitors. But when flashy movie star Blaine Taggart and his entourage move into the mansion next door, gift shop proprietor Ricki James-Diaz gets a fright of her own.

While Ricki is excited about the potential business the tours will bring to her vintage cookbook shop, she’s less thrilled by former friend Blaine’s arrival in town. Then Bon Vee’s prop tomb becomes a real tomb for Blaine’s nasty assistant, and suddenly everyone at Bon Vee is a murder suspect. There isn’t a ghost of a chance one of them committed the crime, but with NOPD busy tackling the mischief and mayhem generated by the spooky holiday, it falls on Ricki and her friends to catch the killer.

As the Big Easy gears up for the Big Scary, it seems everyone has skeletons in their closets. Can Ricki reveal the shadowy killer before someone else becomes part of the Halloween horror show?

RECIPE

Cookbook: Betty Crocker’s Party Book (1960 ed.)

My Vintage Cookbook Mystery series always includes recipes that I’ve adapted from my own persona collection of vintage cookbooks.

Under the auspices of General Mills, Betty Crocker’s library of cookbooks included a handy selection of spiral-bound hardcover themed cookbooks like this “Party Book.” These popcorn balls were a delicious Halloween treat in the 1960s and they’re a delicious treat now.

Popcorn Balls

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar

1/3 cup water

1/3 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp. salt (not necessary if you use salted, already-popped popcorn)

¼ cup butter

1 tsp. vanilla extract

7 cups popped popcorn

Directions:

In a heavy saucepan, mix the sugar, water, light corn syrup, butter (and salt if you’re using it as an ingredient).

Cook the mixture to 250 degrees or until a few drops form a hard ball when dropped into cold water.

Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the teaspoon of vanilla.

Place the popcorn in a large bowl. Pour the liquid mixture over the popcorn in a thin stream, stirring constantly to mix well and coat the popcorn.

Butter your hands to lessen stickiness and shape the popcorn into balls. Chill to firm up.

Servings: approx. 12 balls.

About Ellen Byron

Ellen is a USA Today bestselling author, Anthony nominee, and recipient of multiple Agatha and Lefty awards for her Cajun Country Mysteries, Vintage Cookbook Mysteries, and Catering Hall Mysteries (as Maria DiRico). Her new series, The Golden Motel Mysteries, recently debuted. She is also an award-winning playwright and non-award-winning writer of TV hits like Wings, Just Shoot Me, and Fairly OddParents, but considers her most impressive achievement working as a cater-waiter for Martha Stewart. Visit her at Cozy Mysteries | Ellen Byron | Author

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