11 Oct Welcome to Day 3 of #AGhostAndHisGold Blog Tour! @RobertaEaton17 @4WillsPub @4WP11 @RRBC_Org

INTRODUCTION

You are in for a real treat for Day 3 of the 4WillsPub Blog Tour that features Roberta Eaton Cheadle and her book, A Ghost and His Gold. She also publishes under the name of Robbie Cheadle.

Roberta is known for posting recipes of scrumptious dishes associated with her books. Below is a recipe for rusks, a form of dried bread or cake. Also below are highlights of A Ghost and His Gold and Roberta Eaton Cheadle’s Author Bio. Follow along on the blog tour and leave a comment for a chance to win in the Giveaway

GIVEAWAYS:  (4) e-book copies of A GHOST AND HIS GOLD 

GUEST POST: ROBERTA EATON CHEADLE 

The History of South African Rusks

Background

Rusks, a form of dried bread or cake, were historically a convenient way of storing preserving bread for long periods. The Afrikaner women made rusks for every journey by wagon into the interior of South Africa, and more were made at every uitspan or camp.

During the Second Anglo Boer War, rusks played a part in feeding the Boer commandos in the field. Boerebeskuitwere, were and still are, balls of yeast bread packed tickly into bread pans, baked, broken up into segments, and dried in the oven. Traditionally, they had no sugar.

The recipe for making beschuit, round slices of a very soft sweet bread, dried and stored in rolls, was brought to the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch settlers. Rusks have been made in South Africa since the 1690s and during the 1700s, the settlers sold homemade rusks to passing ships on route to the East or back to Europe, and to expeditions into the interior of South Africa.

Recipe for buttermilk rusks

Ingredients:

1 kg of self-raising flour;

500 ml (2 cups) of buttermilk;

5 ml of salt;

2 large eggs;

200 ml white sugar; and

190 grams of melted butter.

Method:

Beat the eggs, sugar and buttermilk together using an electric mixer or handheld beater. Sift the flour and the salt together. Cut the egg mixture into the dry mixture using a round bladed knife. Gradually add the butter and knead it into the dough. This should take about 5 minutes. The mixture will go from being greasy to being nice and smooth and combined. Put the dough into two greased loaf baking tins and bake them in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 50 to 60 minutes until a cake tester comes out clean. Let the loaves cool slightly and turn them out onto a bread board. Slice the loaves into long oblongs. Lay the oblongs on trays and bake them in the oven at 100 degrees Celsius for four hours, turning them every 45 minutes or so. Cool on a wire rack and store in an airtight container. Rusks will keep for up to three months.

HIGHLIGHTS: A GHOST AND HIS GOLD

A Ghost and His Gold

by Roberta Eaton Cheadle

After Tom and Michelle Cleveland move into their recently built, modern townhouse, their housewarming party is disrupted when a drunken game with an Ouija board goes wrong and summons a sinister poltergeist, Estelle, who died in 1904.

Estelle makes her presence known in a series of terrifying events, culminating in her attacking Tom in his sleep with a knife. But, Estelle isn’t alone. Who are the shadows lurking in the background – one in an old-fashioned slouch hat and the other, a soldier, carrying a rifle?

After discovering their house has been built on the site of one of the original farms in Irene, Michelle becomes convinced that the answer to her horrifying visions lie in the past. She must unravel the stories of the three phantoms’ lives, and the circumstances surrounding their untimely deaths during the Second Anglo Boer War, in order to understand how they are tied together and why they are trapped in the world of ghosts between life and death. As the reasons behind Estelle’s malevolent behaviour towards Tom unfold, Michelle’s marriage comes under severe pressure and both their lives are threatened.

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AUTHOR BIO: ROBERTA EATON CHEADLE

Roberta Eaton Cheadle is a South African writer and poet specialising in historical, paranormal, and horror novels and short stories. She is an avid reader in these genres and her writing has been influenced by famous authors including Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Amor Towles, Stephen Crane, Enrich Maria Remarque, George Orwell, Stephen King, and Colleen McCullough.

Roberta has short stories and poems in several anthologies and has 2 published novels, Through the Nethergate, a historical supernatural fantasy, and A Ghost and His Gold, a historical paranormal novel set in South Africa.

Roberta has 9 children’s books published under the name Robbie Cheadle.

Roberta was educated at the University of South Africa where she achieved a Bachelor of Accounting Science in 1996 and a Honours Bachelor of Accounting Science in 1997. She was admitted as a member of The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants in 2000.

Roberta has worked in corporate finance from 2001 until the present date and has written 7 publications relating to investing in Africa. She has won several awards over her 20-year career in the category of Transactional Support Services.

SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:

Robbie Cheadle

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Roberta Eaton Cheadle

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