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This book is about keeping hens for pleasure in your garden, about their suitability as pets and the joy of having fresh free-range eggs. The author has kept bantams in her garden for many years and this book is based on personal experiences. The book includes chapters on housing, feeding, egg laying, hatching chicks plus information on breeds and common ailments.
Packed with expert information on every aspect of buying, preparing and cooking meat. Tim Wilson and Fran Warde have teamed up to create this comprehensive reference work and inspirational collection of recipes. For each type of meat, the book recommends the best breeds, advises which cuts suit which style of cooking and tells you what to ask your butcher in order to buy the best quality. There are more than 100 recipes arranged according to season, from Sticky citrus-marinated pork chops in April through Moroccan chicken with preserved lemons in July to Slow-baked herb-crusted leg of mutton in December. Through monthly farm diaries, the book also reveals what life is really like on a thriving British farm. Packed with specially commissioned photographs taken on the farm as well as in the kitchen by renowned photographer Kristin Perers, this is a uniquely beautiful and useful book.
Meat and poultry cookery involves far more than just a flash in the pan or sizzle on the barbecue, but many are daunted by the prospect of complicated techniques and specialist equipment. Mastering the Art of Poultry, Meat & Game will arm you with all the information needed to explore the 165 easy-to-follow and highly approachable recipes contained within these pages.
This special edition of 'One Hundred and One Methods of Cooking Poultry' was written by Aunt Chloe, and first published in 1888.This book is filled with recipes for all sorts of poultry dishes, prepared in myriad ways - boiled, fricasseed, curried, roasted, stewed, baked, broiled, pounded, fried, minced, and lots more. Separate sections for Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Fowls in General, Sauces and Gravies, and Hints on Trussing and Carving.A wonderful old cookbook full of recipes for all manner of poultry varieties prepared in so many different ways. A perfect gift for the novice cook and the experienced chef alike. IMPORTANT NOTE - Please read BEFORE buying!THIS BOOK IS A REPRINT. IT IS...
The Tears of War is the passionate and true love story of a First World War poet, May Cannan and an artillery officer, Bevil Quiller-Couch. It tells their story through May's poems, extracts from her autobiography, and through Bevil's letters.
Excerpt from One Hundred and One Methods of Cooking Poultry: With Hints on Selection, Trussing, and Carving The recipes, which embrace all the best known and approved methods, both English and foreign, of cooking poultry, are all well tried, and reliable. Many of them are strictly original, while others are to be met with in a somewhat similar form in various cookery books, ancient and modern. These latter, however, have all been tested by the writer, and in every case varied, in order to form what she considers a better method. It is with great confidence, there fore, that she now gives them, hoping that they will prove satisfactory to all those who care to try them. About the Publisher For...
More than 170 recipes for chicken, eggs, turkey, duck, goose, and small birds, plus proper storage, handling and preparation.
Poultry, but more especially game, is a subject close to my heart. Why? Wellfor the last eight years or so I have been, and indeed still am, a keen shooting man. Shooting for sport, I know, is a subject many people find disagreeable, and the an- bloodsports league is a powerful lobby. Nevertheless, it is a pastime that is becoming more and more popular as years go by and one I hope to continue enjoyingfor many years to come. Without it not only would a part of our history and culture be lost, but our wildlife would become threatened, wildlife and habitat conservancy a thing of the past, and the countryside turned into even greater areas of wheat and rape deserts. No one would know the pleasu...
A selection of traditional and modern recipes as well as an informative, evocative discussion of the origins of all kinds of English dishes.