Hill Country Courtship (2014)
“MacLaren’s room to the kitchen. If she’d had to take over the cooking for the ranch house before learning Ella’s cooking secrets, it would have been a disaster.
Her mother had died before she could teach Maude how to cook, and the housekeeper her father had hired afterward had always shooed Maude out from underfoot when she hovered in the kitchen, hoping to learn. Later, in the boardinghouse, Mrs. Meyer would rarely accept help with the actual food preparation for the tenants.
Yet from ...Ella Maude had learned how to make a variety of dishes, as well as mastering the speed and efficiency needed to get everything ready at approximately the same time. So far, Jonas, his mother and Senora Morales had all expressed approval of what she’d cooked. It had helped that Juana had stepped in to make the tortillas when needed, for the MacLarens had learned to like many of Senora Morales’s Mexican dishes. Maude’s first attempts at making tortillas had resulted in corn disks as heavy and tasteless as leather.MoreLess
Her mother had died before she could teach Maude how to cook, and the housekeeper her father had hired afterward had always shooed Maude out from underfoot when she hovered in the kitchen, hoping to learn. Later, in the boardinghouse, Mrs. Meyer would rarely accept help with the actual food preparation for the tenants.
Yet from ...Ella Maude had learned how to make a variety of dishes, as well as mastering the speed and efficiency needed to get everything ready at approximately the same time. So far, Jonas, his mother and Senora Morales had all expressed approval of what she’d cooked. It had helped that Juana had stepped in to make the tortillas when needed, for the MacLarens had learned to like many of Senora Morales’s Mexican dishes. Maude’s first attempts at making tortillas had resulted in corn disks as heavy and tasteless as leather.MoreLess
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