Book Description
Carefully researched, charmingly written guide describes over 50 herbs and plants: bee balm, bloodroot, candytuft, daffodil, hyssop, lovage, rosemary, tansy, wormwood, yarrow, more. Illustrations.
Author : Colonial Dames of America
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 49,7 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780486285290
Carefully researched, charmingly written guide describes over 50 herbs and plants: bee balm, bloodroot, candytuft, daffodil, hyssop, lovage, rosemary, tansy, wormwood, yarrow, more. Illustrations.
Author : Patricia B Mitchell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 2019-03-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781718756854
If practicing domesticity well, the Colonial woman could not fail to know and grow herbs. The family depended upon herbs for medicine, food, and for a pleasant touch of beauty and fragrance. The American colonial wife did not cultivate spices, since they thrive in tropical climes, but she certainly enjoyed utilizing those exotic spices in her kitchen and home. Patricia B. Mitchell discusses the uses to which milady put these plants in Colonial Spices and Herbs, a book full of fascinating information, quotations, and descriptions. Especially helpful is the explanation of ancient herbals, "humors," and the "Doctrine of Signatures." Anyone planning an historic herb garden needs this book. (And it makes good reading even if you wish to be an armchair gardener.) 137 numbered pages, including a thorough index. 226 research notes. 16 historical recipes.This and other books by Patricia B. Mitchell were first written for museums and their patrons. Each of her books summarizes a food history topic, using quotations and anecdotes to both entertain and inform. She carefully lists her references to make it easy for others to launch their own research. Since the 1980s Patricia Mitchell's work is a proven staple of American museum culture. Her readers love to share her ever-present sense of discovery. Her sales are approaching a million copies, and she is widely known by her web identity FoodHistory.com.
Author : Alice Cooke Brown
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 35,5 MB
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0486139123
For early American households, the herb garden was an all-purpose medicine chest. Herbs were used to treat apoplexy (lily of the valley), asthma (burdock, horehound), boils (onion), tuberculosis (chickweed, coltsfoot), palpitations (saffron, valerian), jaundice (speedwell, nettles, toad flax), toothache (dittander), hemorrhage (yarrow), hypochondria (mustard, viper grass), wrinkles (cowslip juice), cancers (bean-leaf juice), and various other ailments. But herbs were used for a host of other purposes as well — and in this fascinating book, readers will find a wealth of information on the uses of herbs by homemakers of the past, including more than 500 authentic recipes, given exactly as they appeared in their original sources. Selected from such early American cookbook classics as Miss Leslie's Directions for Cookery, Mary Randolph's The Virginia Housewife, Lydia Child's The American Frugal Housewife, and other rare publications, the recipes cover the use of herbs for medicinal, culinary, cosmetic, and other purposes. Readers will discover not only how herbs were used in making vegetable and meat dishes, gravies and sauces, cakes, pies, soups, and beverages, but also how our ancestors employed them in making dyes, furniture polish, insecticides, spot removers, perfumes, hair tonics, soaps, tooth powders, and numerous other products. While some formulas are completely fantastic, others (such as a sunburn ointment made from hog's lard and elder flowers) were based on long experience and produced excellent results. More than 100 fine nineteenth-century engravings of herbs add to the charm of this enchanting volume — an invaluable reference and guide for plant lovers and herb enthusiasts that will "delight and astound the twentieth-century reader." (Library Journal).
Author : Lawrence D. Griffith
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780300164541
A leading historic plant expert bring the botanical heritage of early America back to life, documenting more than fifty species of flowers and herbs and providing details on how they were cultivated and used.
Author : ROSALIND LUCY NORTHCOTE (LADY.)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Herbs
ISBN :
Author : Patricia B. Mitchell
Publisher :
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Food habits
ISBN : 9780925117861
Author : Suzanne DeMuth
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Herbs
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Herb gardening
ISBN :
Author : Elizabeth S. Hayes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0486137821
More than 85 familiar and exotic plants are illustrated, examined for legendary lore, and current use. The book also includes 73 recipes, a spice chart, and tips for gardening, drying, freezing, and more.
Author : Wesley Greene
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1609611624
A Colonial Williamsburg garden historian outlines traditional methods for planting and tending 50 different kinds of vegetables, profiling such 18th-century utilities as shelter paper and fermented manure while sharing complementary weather-watching guidelines, organic techniques and seed-saving advice.