A Garden Supper Tonight

By Barbara Swell

Book Overview

Have a seat on the old front porch glider and let s string this mess of pole beans for our garden feast tonight. We will have the same in-season supper our great grandmothers fixed back in 1895 when... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883206596
• ISBN13: 9781883206598
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Native Ground Music
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Enhanced with the inclusion of a resources list, a bibliography, and a recipe index

More than just a nostalgic collection of yesteryear recipes, "A Garden Supper Tonight" by food historian and author Barbara Swell is a compilation of anecdotal commentaries, quotations, illustrations, and advice on home and garden that perfectly showcase the original recipes for dishes prepared and served by our great-grandmothers in the decades of the late 19th and early 20th century. A superb browse, "A Garden Supper Tonight" is organized into the four seasons of three months each and features a wide diversity of dishes whose ingredients are seasonal. The dishes range from Fried Squash Blossoms; Buttermilk Biscuits; and Blackberry Grilling Glaze; to Lemon Cornmeal Plum Cake; Strawberry Mint Jam, and Rhubarb Claret Sorbet. Enhanced with the inclusion of a resources list, a bibliography, and a recipe index, "A Garden Supper Tonight" is enthusiastically recommended for personal and community library collections.