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The potato has gone gourmet, with a healthy twist! Here are a
hundred diverse, exciting yet nutritionally-sound recipes for
turning the world's most popular vegetable into a satisfying light
meal. Hungry for a different taste? Choose from the Chicken
Tarragon Stuffed SPud, Chili Bowl Spud, Ham Quiche Spud, the Pizza
Potato and many more to satisfy that appetite. High in vitamins,
minerals and fiber, lower in cholesterol, these one-dish meals can
be simple or elaborate, economical or extravagant, sinfully
indulgent with an eye on what's good for you. For a fresh new kind
of meal sure to tickle your palate without giving you a gut, start
stuffing spuds!
This practical pocket guide includes 194 edible fruits, nuts and seeds,
flowers, greens and vegetables, herbs, roots, whole plants, fungi,
seaweeds and shellfish that you can forage in the UK and Europe.
Each species account includes accurate artworks and concise
descriptions outlining essential details to help you identify species
in the field, as well as information on where you can find species and
helpful tips on how to cook and bake with the food you forage.
The author's introduction offers practical advice on foraging safely
and legally and outlines how to prepare and preserve your foraged
foods, including making mead and jam, drying herbs, storing mushrooms
for later use and how to safely prepare foraged shellfish. The helpful
fold-out poster shows common edible species grouped by season and by
habitat.
A Garden of Herbs by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. This book is
primarily intended for those who are going to create an old
fashioned herb garden, and who want to know how to use these herbs
as our great grandmothers did: but even if you buy your herbs at
the store, this practical handbook will show you how to make
hundreds of teas, syrups, conserves, pies, candied flowers and
leaves, wines, sweet waters and perfumes from well known wild and
garden herbs that are readily available. Most of the recipes are
taken from old English herbals (Gerard's herbal, John Evelyn's
Acetaria, Coles Art of Simpling and many others) and the author one
of the two or three most outstanding herbalists of this century
adds many more of her own. Miss Rohde first provides a brief
historical description of the herb garden, discussing some of the
major books on herbs that have been written in England since the
Anglo-Saxon Bald's leech book. Then in a long chapter entitled
"Sundry of herbs" she lists the common herbs in alphabetical order,
giving descriptions, recipes, hints on preservation, etc, for each
one. There are recipes in this chapter for such dishes as artichoke
pie, chervil broth, pickled cow slips, dill pickles, marigold
pudding, nettle spinach, sauce eglantine (from roses), tarragon
vinegar, violet cakes and wormwood brandy. There is an entire
chapter on salads made with all kinds of herbs, which includes
recipes for vinegar and mustard. ther chapters cover herb pottages
and puddings, drinks and homemade wines (from mint, currants,
lemons, dandelions, blackberries, sage, apples, gooseberries,
apricots, turnips, etc) and some additional recipes- almond milk,
beet-root biscuits, parsnip cakes, potato pie, and many more
unusual herb foods. A practical chapter on the picking and drying
of herbs and a final chapter on the use of herbs for scents (in
pomanders, ointments, bath waters, eau de cologne and other
perfumes) complete the volume. Miss Rohde's charming presentation
and the ease with which her herbal lends itself to hours of
browsing, will make this book a source of delight for anyone
interested in plants or their lore.
Delicious raspberries are versatile, nutritious, and always add a
special flair to any dish, whether used in cakes, pies and breads,
in preserves, as a salad ingredient, in wines or brandies, or any
number of other imaginative ways. Rich in vitamins A and C, they
also contain ellagic acid, an anti-carcinogenic (cancer-preventing)
compound. In Raspberry Delights Cookbook, author Karen Jean Matsko
Hood presents her collection of more than 270 exciting raspberry
recipes that will be sure to please everyone. Inside, you will also
find some fascinating reading regarding this wholesome berry's
history, folklore, cultivation, and much more. With recipes using
readily available ingredients, Raspberry Delights Cookbook will be
a valued addition to any chef's bookshelf.
THE PRACTICE OF SOFT CHEESEMAKING - A Guide to the Manufacture of
Soft Cheese and the Preparation of Cream for the Market. By C.W.
Walker-Tisdale And Theodore R. Robinson. Originally published in
1903 and updated and revised in 1915, this scarce early instruction
book on Soft Cheesemaking is both expensive and hard to find in its
first editions. READ COUNTRY BOOKS have republished it in an
affordable, high quality, modern edition, using the original text
and artwork. Ninety five pages contain detailed chapters on: - The
Production and Handling of Milk. - Cream: Its Production,
Composition and Properties. - Principles of the Manufacture of Soft
Cheese. - Varieties of Soft Cheese and Their Process of
Manufacture. - Cream Cheese. - Double Cream Cheese. - Rennetted
Cream Cheese. - Gervais. - Bondon. - Coulommier. - Cambridge or
York. - Sour Milk or Lactic Acid Cheese. - Pont L'Eveque. -
Camembert. - Little Wensleydale. - Colwick. - Ripening. - Packing
and Marketing. - Dairy Terms. - Regulations. - Preservatives and
Colouring. - Measures. - etc. The book is illustrated with full
page vintage photos and various line drawings. Twelve pages of
advertisements for dairy equipment and associated items have been
reproduced for their historical interest. This fascinating little
book will be of much interest to anyone with an interest in dairy
farming or the production of dairy products on a large or small
scale. "The book is a model of conciseness and clearness. The
instructions given as to the handling of milk are admirable, and
the particulars of making all kinds of soft and cream cheese leave
nothing to be desired." - FARMING PRESS.
"Wherein the gardener learns how to grow vegetables and the
housewife how to cook them." Originally published in 1937, this is
a wonderfully detailed and simple guide to, first, growing and then
cooking your own vegetables. A hugely useful tome for the kitchen
gardener, written with simple, easy to follow instructions and
hints and tips. Many of the earliest books, particularly those
dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and
increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these
classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using
the original text and artwork. Contents Include: Introduction By C.
H. Middleton - Introduction By Ambrose Heath - General Cultivation
- Enemies Of The Kitchen Garden - An ABC of Vegetables - Salad
Vegetables - Garden Herbs - Vegetable Dishes - A Few Vegetable
Soups - Salad, Raw and Cooked - Herbs - Index - Index To French
Recipes - Index To Latin Names
Brian Baumgartner is best known for playing Kevin Malone in the US
TV series of The Office - and Kevin Malone is best known for being
a chilli master and the creator of 'Kevin's Famous Chili'. Like
Kevin, Brian is a true chilli aficionado who is just as serious as
his fictional counterpart about making the perfect pot. With over
150 recipes stamped with Brian's "seriously good" approval rating,
Seriously Good Chili Cookbook celebrates all styles of chili -
Texas chilli, chilli verde, veggie chilli, turkey and many other
variations - with recipes contributed by celebrities, chefs and
world championship chilli cook-off winners. Also included are
helpful chilli-cooking tips and tricks as well as QR codes for
exclusive video access.
The earliest evidence of honey being enjoyed in Scotland dates back
to 1000 years BC - an Iron-age beaker that once contained mead was
found in a burial chamber in Fife. Since before history, honey has
added delicacy and sweetness to the Scottish diet. Scottish honey,
with its fragrances of heather, meadowsweet, clover and birch, is a
unique, magical ingredient, and the Honey Bible features a host of
easy-to-prepare recipes drawing on this wonderful resource. Liz
Ashworth introduces us to its versatility from dishes as varied as
Medieval sweet pickled salmon and honey-spiced beetroot, to the
delectable cranachan and more contemporary chocolate honey fudge
cake. Prepared in collaboration with one of the UK's oldest and
largest honey farms, Chain Bridge in the Borders, this book draws
on the experience and traditions of generations of skilled
beekeepers and Scottish cooks in the use of this quintessentially
natural and organic food. Chain Bridge honey farm is a flourishing
family business started by beekeeping advisor William Selby Robson
in 1948. Specialising in natural honey products they produce
everything from honeycombs to beeswax candles.
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