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3.0 out of 5 stars
The most wierd recipes you will ever read,
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This review is from: Garden of Herbs (Cooking in America) (Paperback)
Eleanour Sinclair Rohde gives us a brief history of herb gardens in England and then a series of short paragraphs on a broad range of herbs. Many of the herbs are no longer available or have new modern names. She is pretty good at telling the old Saxon and Norman uses of these herbs and then gives recipes on each herb from the middle ages up to the Stuart restoration.
I wish there had been a bit more history and a bit less of the recipes that are totally wierd and beyond belief. A modern cook would not try a single one of these outlandish recipes that have 20 or thirty steps and involve all kinds of boiling, storing, grating, layering, cooling, warming, and adding the oddest bunch of ingredients that one can imagine. Almost every recipe sounds like a witch brew from a children's story. The most amazing thing about the book is that people actually ate this wild concoction of off-beat and dangerous sounding ingredients. |
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A Garden of Herbs by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde (Paperback - March 28, 2012)
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