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I created my own playlist of ten songs that I thought of while reading the book. The songs include Satisfied, Hurricane, You’ve Got Nothing to Lose, I Don’t Need Your Love, Get Down, Lose You to Love Me, Unsaid Emily, True Love, Out of the Woods, and Wait For Me. The songs Satisfied, Lose You to Love Me, Unsaid Emily, Get Down and True Love are all songs that describe Janie’s relationship with Joe. Janie had left her husband to go be with Joe and because she wasn’t satisfied with him and she ended up not loving him either. The song True Love is about making mistakes in love and Janie feels like the dream of true love is a lie after two failed marriages. While the songs Hurricane, Out of the Woods, and Wait For Me, describe Janie with Tea Cake. They experience a hurricane but they have the young love that Janie always wanted but she is questioning. You’ve Got Nothing to Lose and I Don’t Need Your Love describe Janie leaving Logan to be with Joe.

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Sweet biscuits are something that I have made for a long time in slightly different variations on the recipe. After the last few years though, I thought I'd share the version of the recipe that has now become my standard.

These are very close to scones but a bit sweeter, especially if you go for the turbinado sugar top like I love to do. Turbinado sugar is available at most bulk stores, like Bulk Barn here in Canada.

It is large coarse-grained raw cane sugar that adds a little sweet crunch to the tops of the biscuits. That step is, of course, optional in this recipe.

They are a balance between being a little crispy at the edges when freshly baked with a soft, tender interior. Scones tend to be softer all around but in this instance I like the textural difference in the edges here.

They are just a thing of amazing, simple perfection when served at brunch, warm from the oven, with melting butter. Summer is a great time to serve them, especially with seasonal jams like two of my favourites, Roasted Strawberry Jam or .

Sweet Biscuits for Strawberry Shortcake

The most common use for these sweet biscuits at our house has always been as the base for summer shortcake desserts, especially Strawberry Shortcake.

We use whatever fresh fruit or berries are in season to make these delicious, easy desserts; peaches, nectaries, plums, cherries, blackberries, raspberries. Whatever fruit you like will work just fine.

We simply macerate the fruit in a little sugar for an hour or so and serve it between a split sweet biscuit with vanilla whipped cream. It's the perfect summer barbecue or picnic dessert. Find out how we make our Sweet Biscuit Strawberry Shortcake here.

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Sweet Biscuits - make them for a teatime treat or as the start of a simple but special shortcake dessert.

Ingredients

3 cups flour

1 cup sugar, ( a little less if you prefer)

4 tsp baking powder

½ tsp salt

¾ cup butter

2 tbsp lemon juice

1 tsp vanilla extract

3/4 cup milk, (approximately)

1 large egg

egg wash (optional), ( 1 egg + 2 tbsp water , whisked)

4 tbsp turbinado sugar, (optional)

Instructions

1. I start these in my food processor because it is so fast but they can be made just as easily in a large bowl by cutting the butter in with a pastry blender or just rubbing it into the dry ingredients using your hands.

2. In a food processor, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.

3. Cut in the butter until mixture resembles a coarse meal.

4. Transfer to a large bowl and make a well in the center of the dry mix.

5. Mix together the lemon juice, vanilla, milk and 1 egg.

6. Pour into the well and mix only enough to form a dough ball.

7. Roll to 1 inch thickness and cut out biscuits with 3 inch biscuit cutter and place on parchment lined baking sheet.

8. Whisk together the egg and water to make an egg wash and lightly brush the tops of the biscuits with it. You will only use a small amount of the egg wash.

9. Sprinkle turbinado sugar on top of the biscuits.

10. Bake at 375 degrees F for 20 minutes or until golden brown.

Notes

Some folks have noted a sticky dough when using this recipe. This can be caused by humidity differences or the manner the flour is measured. Do not worry about adding another few tablespoons or so of flour if the final dough is too sticky to roll. And of course flour the countertop, surface of the dough and rolling pin well.

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Sweet Biscuits - for teatime or for Strawberry Shortcake!

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Sweet biscuits are something that I have made for a long time in slightly different variations on the recipe. After the last few years though, I thought I'd share the version of the recipe that has now become my standard.

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I found a recipe for Sweet Biscuits online by Barry C. Parsons. I chose this recipe because Janie was known by Tea Cake for her sweet tooth and the deserts she would make him after working. Joe had commented on how Janie loved sweets and it is mentioned by other characters throughout the book. Janie loved to cook, especially for Tea Cake since he appreciated what she did for him. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, it says that after a long day on the muck, everyone would go to Janie and Tea Cake’s cabin to have some fun and one night, Janie had made everyone Sweet Biscuits while Tea Cake played the guitar.

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Hamilton and Peggy! - by L M Elliott (Hardcover)

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Drawing from historical journals and letters, New York Times bestselling author Laura Elliot weaves a richly detailed tale about the extraordinary Peggy Schuyler and her revolutionary friendship with Alexander Hamilton. Perfect for fans of the smash musical sensation Hamilton.

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I have read the book Hamilton and Peggy; A Revolutionary Friendship by L. M. Elliot, and I think that the book Their Eyes Were Watching God is similar. In Hamilton and Peggy; A Revolutionary Friendship by L. M. Elliot, Peggy is the main character and the only things that Peggy wanted was to find her true love and to be able to help in the revolution. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie wants to find her true love and she wants to be intellectually equal to her male counterparts and wishes to be seen as more than an object. Both Janie and Peggy go through many guys until they find the one. Peggy had met Varick then Lafayette and liked both but didn’t want to settle until she found the one. A difference between Peggy and Janie is that Peggy only married once and Janie had tried marriage three times to find her true love.

Both Peggy and Janie want to be included in what the men are in their lives. Peggy wanted to help her father and her brother-in-laws with the revolution. Peggy would listen to her father’s conversations outside his office and even became a spy to get information on the british. Janie wanted to learn to play checkers and be included in Joe’s conversations with his friends. However, Joe never let her. But when Janie net Tea Cake, he included her in everything he did. He taught her checkers, how to shoot a gun, and never wanted Janie to leave his side. Tea Cake made Janie feel important. This is how the two books are similar.

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https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/homr/hd_homr.htm

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I choose the painting Dressing for the Carnival because it takes place Post Civil War Era and shows African Americans getting ready for the carnival. I thought this painting was very interesting because the women and children were in regular clothing while the man in the middle is wearing a nicer outfit. This reminded me of the book Their Eyes Were Watching God because Janie and Joe had lived in an all black community in Florida and the community helped each other. Janie and Joe ran the store and they met all kinds of people and helped out many of them. This painting reminds the book because Tea Cake had bought Janie a blue dress and she loved the dress but the rest of the town did not. Janie, like the man in the red, stood out because of what they were wearing but their significant other loved it.

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Personal Creation

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I created a word cloud that has characters, themes, and events that take place during the book. The characters included in the word cloud are Janie, Logan, Joe, and Tea Cake. Janie married these three men because she thought she had love and she found it with Tea Cake. The only thing Janie wanted was to be loved. I included Pear tree because throughout the book, Janie compares her life to a pear tree.  The events included in the world cloud are hurricane, seeds, gossip, adventure, and equality. Each of these words represent an event that took place in the book. The theme words are love, god and sea. At the end of the book, Janie thanks God for Tea Cake and compares love to the sea.

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Passion and responsibility cause a war within many people’s lives and it is important to understand the psychology of people to portray this inner conflict. In the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie battles passion and responsibility multiple times to allow Janie to change and define the work as a whole. Throughout the novel Janie is faced with the conflict of passion vs. responsibility and it allows her to become more independent and find peace at the end of the novel. Hurston uses the conflict to define the novel as a whole and to show the theme of love. In the end, Janie finds her true love and realizes that love is different for everyone and that she can be alone and not feel alone.

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