Cozy Mystery
2nd in Series
Setting - Florida
Perricot Publishing (March 30, 2021)
Number of Pages - 318 pages
Digital - ASIN : B08ZVF86VF
Synopsis:
Boca Raton reporter Becks Ruchinsky is stunned when her son, Gabe, brings an ultra-Orthodox friend home from college and asks her to hide him. Six days later, his body is found floating in a canal. When police deem his death an accident, Becks launches her own inquiry—a journey that takes her from secretive Hasidic enclaves to the seedy underbelly of South Beach’s glitzy club scene—to find his killer. What she discovers jeopardizes her son’s life and challenges her religious conviction.
The Hasidic Rebbe’s Son is an intriguing and compulsively readable mystery that contrasts the beauty of Hasidic tradition with the unbending rules that may lead to desperation and murder.
Review: Coming soon.
Recipe from the book:
Becks Ruchinsky loves cooking almost as much as she enjoys
poking her nose in other people’s business. She should know better, especially
since her curiosity often draws her into murder investigations. Fortunately,
Becks’ background as an investigative reporter provided her with the skills and
connections she needs when looking into a suspicious death. In The Hasidic
Rebbe’s Son, for example, a newspaper colleague-turned- private eye and, oddly
enough, an elderly ultra-Orthodox yenta, helped Becks uncover the secrets that
led to a Hasidic young man’s murder. Becks
has been a food writer and cookbook author since her son’s disability forced
her to abandon her newspaper career and is now working on a collection of
Southern desert recipes, most of them handed down by her Savannah-born mother.
Here’s a recipe for Haggard Cake, one of Becks’ sons favorites. Despite the
rather dismal name, it’s delicious and pretty easy to make. Enjoy! You can sign
up for my
mailing list to receive a free collection of Jewish recipes entitled
“Homemade Jewish Cooking.”
Haggard Cake
By Becks Ruchinsky
Even though I was raised in Miami, I grew up under the
influence of a Southern cook, my mother, who was raised in Savannah, Georgia.
On special occasions like birthdays and school graduations, she’d go all out,
making sweet tea, fried chicken and mashed potatoes. Dessert was almost always Haggard
Cake. I rarely make it anymore – I struggle with my weight – but like to have
it waiting when the boys visit. It’s classic Southern cooking in the sense that
it includes coconut, pineapple and pecans. One of the best parts of making this
cake is the easy icing. You cook a few ingredients on the stove for three
minutes and pour that over the warm cake. Perfect for the lazy and time-pressed
cook. And trust me, as weird as this recipe appears to be – no butter or eggs
in the batter – it works.
Haggard
Cake
BATTER
2 cups of flour
1½ cups of sugar
2 teaspoons of baking soda
Dash of salt
20 ounce can of crushed pineapple, undrained
1.
Preheat oven 20 350 degrees F. Grease and flour
a 9 X 13 inch pan.
2.
Pour everything into a large bowl and mix well
with a spoon. Pour into the pan and bake 35 minutes or until a toothpick or
knife placed in the cake comes out clean. Leave in pan.
ICING
1 small can of evaporated milk
1 stick of butter or margarine
1½ cups sugar
1 cup coconut
1 cup chopped pecans
1 teaspoon vanilla
Dash of salt
1.
While the cake is baking, melt the butter and
milk in a medium saucepan over low-medium heat, stirring constantly.
2. 2. Once the butter is melted, add the sugar and
stir to combine. Beat for two minutes in the saucepan with an immersion blender
or hand-held mixer. A whisk is probably fine. Add the vanilla, salt, coconut and chopped
pecans.
3.
Pour over the cake while both are warm, and let the
cake sit a few hours to absorb the liquid.
About the author:
Joan Lipinsky Cochran is a South Florida-based writer whose crime and mystery novels focus on subcultures of American Judaism. In her latest novel, The Hasidic Rebbe’s Son, her protagonist is compelled to explore the glitzy South Beach nightclub scene and the secretive world of Hasidic Judaism to find a killer. It is the second in The Becks Ruchinsky Mystery Series. The first, The Yiddish Gangster’s Daughter, is the story of a woman whose world is upended – and life threatened – when she discovers her father was a member of the Jewish mafia.
Website www.joanlipinskycochran.com,
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