Being Lara (39 page)

1 cup plain flour

2¼ teaspoons yeast

5 oz water

Sugar (to taste)

Pinch of salt

Cooking oil (for deep frying)

Using your fingertips, mix the above ingredients (minus the oil) in a bowl until soft and fluffy (this may take a while and a lot of strength!). Mix well and into a dropping consistency. Cover and keep someplace warm for at least four hours or overnight.

Heat oil in a frying pan—when hot (test by putting a drop of batter into the oil; the batter will rise to the top if hot enough) place dollops (or balls) of the mixture into the pan for a few minutes until golden brown. Carefully take out the balls with a spoon (please be careful, the oil is very hot) and place them on a paper towel to soak up the oil, then sprinkle with sugar if desired. Now, you're all set!

Serve hot or cold.

(Serves: 1 to 2—depending on how hungry you are!)

Enjoy!

LOLA JAYE
was born and raised in London, England, where she still makes her home; she has also lived briefly in Nigeria. She has a degree in psychology and a master's in psychotherapy and counseling.
By the Time You Read This
—Lola's first U.S. novel—was published by HarperCollins in 2009. Her inspirational essay “Reaching for the Stars: How You Can Make Your Dreams Come True,” in which she charted her journey from foster child to author, was also released in 2009 as part of the U.K.'s wildly popular Quick Reads program.

Lola has also written for the Huffington Post and
Marie Claire
, and her novels have been published in various languages, including Korean, German, and Serbian.

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BEING LARA

A Novel

ISBN 978-0-06-206934-4

(paperback)

Lara has never been comfortable with being adopted, but when a woman claiming to be her mother shows up at her thirtieth birthday party, she must face her biggest fears. Torn in too many directions, desperate to just hunker down and hide, she has no choice but to grow. And as the lives of her mothers are revealed, she finally understands what it means to be Lara.

BY THE TIME YOU READ THIS

A Novel

ISBN 978-0-06-173383-3

(paperback)

When he discovered he only had six months to live, thirty-year-old Kevin Bates wrote The Manual—advice to guide his then five-year-old daughter, Lois, with entries to be read on her successive birthdays from twelve to thirty. While The Manual can never be a substitute for having her father, it becomes the cure for all of Lois's ups and downs and the secret to remembering what really matters most.

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This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

BEING LARA
. Copyright © 2012 by Lola Jaye. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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