The country house kitchen garden, 1600-1960
Subtitle: how produce was grown and how it was used
By: edited by C. Anne Wilson.
Contributors: Wilson, C. Anne.; Leeds Symposium on Food History (10th : 1995)
Series: Food and society ;; 10
Publisher: Sutton Pub., in association with National Trust Enterprises
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Vegetable gardening -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses; Kitchen gardens -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses; Fruit-culture -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses; Herb gardening -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses; Cookery, British -- History -- Congresses; Country homes -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses
Other titles: Kitchen garden, 1600-1950
Description: "This book recalls in words and pictures the full cyle of provisioning of great houses such as eighteenth-century Felbrigg, Erddig and Calke Abbey, and Victorian Tatton Park. It begins by looking at how produce was grown, from digging, sowing and cropping in the open ground, and the supply of seeds, plants and trees to country house kitchen gardens, and orchards, to the use of frames and greenhouses for protecting exotic fruit and tender vegetables, and the growing of aromatic herbs and flowers for food and physic. The second part of the book is devoted to the produce itself, and its transfer from garden to table: its preparation, its preservation, and the use of medicinal herbs."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-197) and index.
"Based on papers from the Tenth Leeds Symposium on Food History, April 1995"--T.p. verso.