Fic Update and Raspberry Cobbler

So, I turned four cups of U-pick raspberries into a very nice cobbler.  The recipe is the "old-fashioned berry cobbler" in the middle of the page, the one with raspberries in it.  I substituted black raspberry jam and added some vanilla to the biscuit topping, and it went over very well at Sunday dinner. I've been on a baking binge, in between the two custard pies, this cobbler, and the plum butter kuchen I meant to write about that got lost in the shuffle.  Reason?  We still haven't turned the furnace on, and it's getting kind of chilly.  Oops.

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We finally have a decent cupcake shop in my end of town.  I will elaborate on this critical development on a later date, but right now, all I have to say is: purple velvet cupcakes.  Yes.

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So, speaking of cupcakes... no, wait cupcakes have nothing to do with Chapter Two of "Honesty is (Not) the Best Policy."

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