Candied
Walnuts
1
cup walnuts
2 Tbsp. butter
1 - 2 Tbsp. sugar
1/4 tsp. cinnamon (optional)
2 Tbsp. butter
1 - 2 Tbsp. sugar
1/4 tsp. cinnamon (optional)
1. Heat a heavy bottom pan to medium high
heat. (Lucy and Fiona would probably
have used an iron skillet.)
2. Place nuts and butter in the hot skillet. When butter is melted and nuts are coated, sprinkle sugar (and cinnamon if desired) over nuts, stirring until caramelized.
2. Place nuts and butter in the hot skillet. When butter is melted and nuts are coated, sprinkle sugar (and cinnamon if desired) over nuts, stirring until caramelized.
3. Pour out on cool surface (parchment paper
today). Separate nuts and cool.
Lucy
and Fiona fill small fabric bags to sell, but they will keep longer in an
airtight jar.
The Memory
Keeper - Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat; Think With
Your Taste Buds; A Book and A Dish
"What
is he doing here?" I heard as I
worked in the padre's quarters shortly after Maria and I were married. "Tomas helps me." The padre's voice was firm. "I can no longer walk the grounds and
warehouses, and he is good at ciphering.
Among other tasks he totals the mission products for my reports to the
governor." "Well, I'm here
now, and I will take care of the mission property. Too many Indians are employed." He took off his jacket and laid it over a
chair. Then he turned to me. "You may be able to help me in other
ways. Show me to the guest
quarters. My family of twenty-two will
arrive in a few days. They will require
adequate accommodations."
Tomas
has just met the new majordomo that would be taking over the mission. And take over is exactly what he did as well
as just about run it into the ground.
All work that the Padre and the Indians done over the years storing up
grains, wine and cattle will no longer be controlled by the Padre but by
Santiago Arguello with the work being done by the Indians as he makes his own
family comfortable.
In
the 1800s Indians were not allowed to be taught reading and writing but Fray
Barona saw something in Tomas that prompted him to teach the young boy in
secret, allowing him to help with the record keeping at the mission. Unknown to Tomas, this would later lead to a
future unexpected by most Indians of that time.
I'm
from the South and the southern history tells of the slaves and eventually
their freedom but we're taught very little about the Indians and the slavery
they actually lived through. Even more
so, we hear very little about the Southwestern Indians that were in a fact,
slaved by the Spaniards/Mexicans. This
book has become an eye opener for me.
I've found it quite interesting to read their trials as they go from the
uneducated to educated. As they go from
what were called property owners but the slavery that went along with that
ownership in the form of all proceeds going to the government. And as they evolve in their freedom as they
become citizens of the United States when California becomes a state.
This
has been a very enjoyable reading in history but it has also been a heart
touching reading as I followed the family of Tomas' mother as she lives in her
old native ways and his father as he tries to bring her into the newer ways of
the mission.
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