The Little Book of Elderflowers and Berries

The Little Book of Elderflowers and Berries
Author: Janice Murfitt
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2023-07-28
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 139847925X

The amazing elder tree produces wonderful, fragrant, cream flowers followed by rich, burgundy-coloured berries. Used as culinary ingredients, both can be turned into so many exciting recipes. The contrasting flavours are quite different, and this is reflected in how they are used. Elderflowers are fragrant and light, giving inspiration for cool sorbets, foamy desserts, cheesecakes and creamy panna cottas. Elderberries are rich and dark with an intense flavour. These can be used to make wonderful drinks as well as cakes, pastries, bread and savoury dishes. All recipes are illustrated with full colour photographs.

Elderflowers

Elderflowers
Author: Wilhelm Raabe
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 39
Release: 2021-05-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This work is a translation of popular German fiction that is presented brilliantly as a personal memoir of a doctor who delivers an account of his experiences in the famous city Prague of the Chezch Republic, where he went to study Medicine. The memoirs focus on his mysterious and strange curiosity about the famous Jewish cemetery. The writer has made excellent use of imagery and symbolism throughout the work, which keeps the reader engrossed till the end. Raabe wanted to show the readers what an incredible thing the human soul is through this work. The author, Wilhelm Raabe, was a German novelist who was best known for writing realistic novels on the middle-class life during his era. Excerpt from Elderflowers: "It was a clear, cold day in January. The sun was shining and packed snow crackled underfoot as people went past while the wheels of carts made a shrill, squealing sound as they turned. The weather was healthy and invigorating and I filled my lungs once more with a deep breath before ringing, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the doorbell of one of the stateliest mansions in one of the stateliest streets in the town."

Everything Elderberry

Everything Elderberry
Author: Susannah Shmurak
Publisher: Skyhorse
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1510754008

This book is for everyone from novices to advanced herbalists and contains everything you need to know to source elderberries and make the most potent and delicious natural remedies and treats. Used for centuries to fight illness, elderberries’ reputation as an effective home remedy for colds and flu has been borne out by numerous scientific studies. While elderberry syrup is perhaps this amazing berry’s best-known form, there is so much more we can make from flavorful elderberries! In addition to its flu-fighting superpowers, elderberry contains potent antioxidants that support long-term health. Elderberries make nutritious and tasty additions to baked goods, drinks, and all manner of treats. Once you get started making your own elderberry gummies and homemade beverages, you won’t want to stop! Everything Elderberry will introduce readers to the science behind elderberries, their traditional uses, what to know about growing and foraging elderberries, and how to prepare numerous mouthwatering elderberry and elderflower recipes. From simple teas, syrups, and tinctures, to jams, desserts, and wine, Everything Elderberry will have you hooked on these gorgeous gifts from Mother Nature! The recipes featured here include: Elderberry hard candies and cough drops Jams made with foraged elderberries, strawberries, and chia seeds Elderflower soda & kombucha Foraged berry oat muffins Elderberrry and elderflower tea & tinctures

Wild Food

Wild Food
Author: Roger Phillips
Publisher: Pan
Total Pages: 159
Release: 1983
Genre: Cookery (Fruit)
ISBN: 9780330280693

Roger Phillips, creator of Wild Flowers and its bestselling companion volumes, turns his attention and his camera to the wide range of good things to eat from the countryside and seashore. From the multitude of species that are safely edible, he has selected those that are actually attractive and appetizing as food. Beautiful colour photography shows each species growing in the wild - for accurate identification - and prepared as an appealing dish. Well-known wine and food writers such as Jane grigson, Katie Stewart and B.C.A. Turner are among those who have contributed the recipes that accompany Roger Phillips' photographs.

Gather Cook Feast

Gather Cook Feast
Author: Jessica Seaton
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2017-04-06
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0241298857

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDRE SIMON PRIZE 2017** 'Beautiful recipes deeply rooted in time and place - my favourite sort of food. Certain to become often used in my kitchen' Anna Jones A cookbook that celebrates seasonal eating, and the landscapes that produce it, from the co-founder of the lifestyle brand Toast. Gather, Cook Feast celebrates the connection between the food that we eat and the land where we live, in over 120 recipes. A seasonal feast of British food, Jessica Seaton is inspired by the food from our seas, our rivers, our farmland, our gardens and our wild places. Full of simple, seasonal and nourishing recipes like braised shortribs with horseradish, courgette fritters with minted yoghurt, mackerel escabeche with wild fennel and kale, and roast vegetable and barley salad with crisped artichokes, alongside puddings, preserves and cakes such as bay and bramble jelly pots, apple and walnut soft cake and rose macaroons, this is a book full of recipes to savour, to share, and to sustain.

National Trust Complete Jams, Preserves and Chutneys

National Trust Complete Jams, Preserves and Chutneys
Author: Sara Paston-Williams
Publisher: National Trust
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2015-07-30
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1909881732

A delicious collection of the nation’s favourite jams, preserves and chutneys, from Piccalilli, Seville Orange Marmalade and Lemon Curd to old-fashioned Quince Jelly, Traditional Mincemeat, Sloe Gin and Fresh Lemonade. Includes recipes for chutneys and relishes, pickles, jams and jellies, butters, cheeses, curds, marmalades, drinks, mincemeats and other mouthwatering condiments. Packed with new twists on classic recipes, there is plenty to choose from. Whether you are an experienced cook, or rarely approach the stove, making preserves, jams and chutneys is not difficult and the results are so much better than anything you can buy.

Make Your Own

Make Your Own
Author: Mary Ford
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1782431691

Make Your Own: Jams, Chutneys and Pickles contains a wide range of easily navigable recipes that will take you back to the good old days of traditional home-made fare.

Grandma's Remedies

Grandma's Remedies
Author: Cherry Chappell
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2009-11-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1409061183

Long before modern medicines became so widely available, families treated everyday illnesses with home-made remedies. Reused and refined year after year, they were handed down through the generations then lovingly copied into personal 'receipt' books. Grandma's Remedies brings together a beguiling collection of them, gathered from dusty medicine chests found in attics, recalled from childhoods long past, or discovered in family archives and libraries. Many of them are surprisingly effective. Did you know, for example, that drinking two cups of strong black coffee will alleviate an asthma attack? Or that chewing toasted fennel seeds will help combat indigestion? Or that rosehip syrup is a terrific source of vitamin C? But Grandma's Remedies is more than a guide to these traditional treatments, it also paints a vivid portrait of the world of our grandparents and great-grandparents. It shows how inventive and resourceful they were with the materials near to hand, how they made the most of everything in the store-cupboard, from bread through to vinegar, and how it was the women of the household who, despite being barred from the medical profession, were relied on to safeguard family health. In these days of antibiotics and painkillers, it's easy to forget how people survived when all they had to rely on was a garden, a larder and a healthy dose of common sense.

Forgotten Skills of Cooking

Forgotten Skills of Cooking
Author: Darina Allen
Publisher: Kyle Books
Total Pages: 1474
Release: 2018-11-05
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0857836935

Winner of the Andre Simon Food Book Award 2009. Darina Allen has won many awards such as the World Gourmand Cookbook Award 2018, the Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Irish Culinary Sector by Euro-Toques, the UK Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2018 Guaranteed Irish Food Hero Award. 'There's not much this gourmet grande dame doesn't know.' Observer Food Monthly In this sizeable hardback, Darina Allen reconnects you with the cooking skills that missed a generation or two. The book is divided into chapters such as Dairy, Fish, Bread and Preserving, and forgotten processes such as smoking mackerel, curing bacon and making yogurt and butter are explained in the simplest terms. The delicious recipes show you how to use your home-made produce to its best, and include ideas for using forgotten cuts of meat, baking bread and cakes and even eating food from the wild. The Vegetables and Herbs chapter is stuffed with growing tips to satisfy even those with the smallest garden plot or window box, and there are plenty of suggestions for using gluts of vegetables. You'll even discover how to keep a few chickens in the garden. With over 700 recipes, this is the definitive modern guide to traditional cookery skills.

Relæ

Relæ
Author: Christian F. Puglisi
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2014-11-11
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1607746506

Written as a series of interconnected essays—with recipes—Relæ provides a rare glimpse into the mind of a top chef, and the opportunity to learn the language of one of the world’s most pioneering and acclaimed restaurants. Chef Christian F. Puglisi opened restaurant Relæ in 2010 on a rough, run-down stretch of one of Copenhagen’s most crime-ridden streets. His goal was simple: to serve impeccable, intelligent, sustainable, and plant-centric food of the highest quality—in a setting that was devoid of the pretention and frills of conventional high-end restaurant dining. Relæ was an immediate hit, and Puglisi’s “to the bone” ethos—which emphasized innovative, substantive cooking over crisp white tablecloths or legions of water-pouring, napkin-folding waiters—became a rallying cry for chefs around the world. Today the Jægersborggade—where Relæ and its more casual sister restaurant, Manfreds, are located—is one of Copenhagen’s most vibrant and exciting streets. And Puglisi continues to excite and surprise diners with his genre-defying, wildly inventive cooking. Relæ is Puglisi’s much-anticipated debut: like his restaurants, the book is honest, unconventional, and challenges our expectations of what a cookbook should be. Rather than focusing on recipes, the core of the book is a series of interconnected “idea essays,” which reveal the ingredients, practical techniques, and philosophies that inform Puglisi’s cooking. Each essay is connected to one (or many) of the dishes he serves, and readers are invited to flip through the book in whatever sequence inspires them—from idea to dish and back to idea again. The result is a deeply personal, utterly unique reading experience.