K.Esquivel-LWFC

OCTOBER.
Cream Fritter recipe. INGREDIENTS: 1 cup
of heavy cream 6egg cinnamon
iyrup PREPARATION: Take the eggs, crack
them, and separate the
whites.
Stir the six yolks with the cup of cream. Beat
until the mixture
becomes light. Pour it into a pot that has
been greased with lard.
The mixture should be no more than an inch
thick in the baking pan.
Place it on the heat, over a very low flame,
and allow to thicken.
Tita was preparing these fritters at the
specific request of Gertrudis;
they were her favorite dessert. It had been a
long time since she had
had them, and she wanted to make them
before leaving the ranch, the
next day. Gertrudis had only been home for
a week, but that was much
longer than she had intended. While she
greased the pot where Tita
would pour the beaten cream, she never
stopped talking. She had so
many things to tell Tita that she could talk
day and night for a month
without running out of conversation. Tita
listened, greatly
interested. More than interested, she was
afraid to let her stop1 then
it would be her turn. She knew that today
was the only day she had
left to tell Gertrudis about her problem, and
eyen though she was dying
to get it off her chest and confess to her
sister, she was worried
about what attitude Gertrudis might take with
her.
Having Gertrudis and her troops staying at
the house had not made Tita
feel oppressed by extra work, instead it had
provided her with a real
peace With so many people around the
house and the patios, it was
impossible to talk to Pedro, much less meet
him in the dark room.
This was a relief to Tita, since she wasn't
ready to talk with him.
Before doing that she wanted to analyze the
possible solutions to the
problem of her pregnancy carefully and come
to some decision.
- She and Pedro were on one side; on the
other, at a total
disadvantage, was her sister. Rosaura was
weak, it was important to
her how society saw her, and she was still fat
and smelly; even the
remedy Tita had given her had not reduced
her huge problem. What would
happen if Pedro abandoned her for Tita?
How much would that hurt
Rosaura? What about Esperanza?
"I'm boring you with my chatter, aren't I?"
"Of course not, Gertrudis. Why do you say
that?"
"You've seemed distant for quite a while.
Tell me, what is it?
It's about Pedro, right?"
"Yes."
"If you still love him, then why are you going
to marry John?"
"I'm not going to marry him, I can't."