The Country Housewife's Family Companion
The Country Housewife's Family Companion

Author: W (William) -1785 Ellis

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781019458396

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This book offers valuable advice to the country housewife on a range of topics including the domestic management of a country household, cooking, midwifery, and medicinal remedies. It also includes important instructions on the maintenance of tools, gardens, and livestock. With practical tips and clear instructions, this guide is a must-have for any woman managing a country household in the eighteenth century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Victoria's Home Companion
Victoria's Home Companion

Author: Victoria R. Rumble

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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Victoria's Home Companion traces the origin and history of various staple ingredients, prepared dishes, and recipes throughout the 19th century. The recipes in the book were documented numerous times throughout the century in order to establish what foods the average Victorian family ate, how they were grown, how they were preserved, and how they were prepared. The Companion is a detailed history of America's culinary advancements.

The Apple: A Delicious History
The Apple: A Delicious History

Author: Sally Coulthard

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-08-01

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1803287942

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Sin, cider and apple crumble... the 10,000-year story of the world's most tempting fruit. The Apple: A Delicious History takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, from the apple's prehistoric beginnings in the Tian Shan mountains of Kazakhstan to the explosion of commercial apple-growing in twenty-first-century China. Zigzagging across the centuries and straddling the globe, Sally Coulthard explores how the apple travelled along the Silk Road from Central Asia to Europe, appearing as an erotically charged symbol in Greek myth and poetry and even featuring in the shopping list of a senior Roman officer stationed on Hadrian's Wall. She samples the cider that flowed from the emperor. Charlemagne's orchards in the early Middle Ages, and relishes the crispness of the yellow sweeting, the first new apple variety to be cultivated in seventeenth-century America. And she discovers why, despite the existence of more than 7500 varieties of apple – from the ubiquitous Granny Smith to the purple-skinned Black Diamond of Tibet – only a handful of cultivars are available in modern supermarkets. Amplified by mouth-wateringly appley recipes and the stories behind them, The Apple: A Delicious History embraces not only culinary, horticultural, social and commercial history but also age-old traditions in mythology, folklore and religion. It is the perfect gift book for gardeners and nature lovers – and for anyone who enjoys a drop of cider or a slice of apple pie.