Gardening a la Mode: Vegetables (eBook)

Harriet Anne De Salis (Autor)

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2017
128 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-82109-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Brimming with timeless recipes and gardening suggestions, this guide from the late 19th century offers advice extending from cooking Brussels sprouts and preserving potatoes to drying herbs and dealing with weevils.

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What's the best way to protect vegetables from frost? How do you dry herbs and banish slugs? There's much to learn about making the most of your backyard vegetable garden, and this handy little guide is brimming with advice for novice gardeners. Written by a popular magazine columnist of the nineteenth century, these timeless suggestions offer straightforward guidance for every step of the way, from planting, watering, and fertilizing to cooking and preserving your homegrown produce.Author Harriet Anne de Salis was an expert at counseling Victorian housewives on the domestic arts, writing commonsense manuals for everything from cooking on a budget to raising poultry and training dogs. This companion volume to Gardening à la Mode: Fruits features alphabetized entries and an index for easy reference. Even seasoned gardeners and cooks are likely to find it a source of useful hints and enduring charm.

Autor

London-based author Harriet Anne de Salis had a regular column in the popular Lady's Realm magazine. She also wrote several books on cooking and household management.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.4.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 130 x 130 mm
• Gewicht: 144 g
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Schlagworte: 19th century gardening • Advice • amateus • Appetizer • Artichoke • artichokes • asparagus • au jus • backyard vegetable garden • Basil • Beans • Beet • Broccoli • brussel sprouts • cabbage • carrot • Cauliflower • celery • Chef • Chili • chives • Cook • Cookery • cooking and preserving your homegrown produce • croquette • cucumbers • cultivate • Cultivation • Dessert • dictionary • Dirt • drying herbs • easy to read • endive • farms and farmers,garden • Fennel • fertilizing • Field • Food • food lovers • gardener • gardening and plants • garlic • Glossary • Guide • Herb Garden • historical non-fiction • historical nonfiction • Kale • kidney • leeks • lettuce • Main Course • Manual • marjoram • MINT • Mushrooms • Mustard • Non-fiction • Nonfiction • novice gardeners • onoin • parchips • parsley • Peas • Planting • potato • protecting your garden • radish • Ragout • Recipe • Recipes • Reference • Rural • Sage • salad • Sandwich • savory • seasonal gardening • seed • shallots • Sorrel • soup • Sow • spinch • tarragon • thyme • tips for growing vegetables • Tomato • turnip • victorian gardens • victorian horticulture • watercress • watering
• ISBN-10: 0-486-82109-9 / 0486821099
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-82109-2 / 9780486821092