Research Catalog

Title

The country house kitchen garden, 1600-1950 : how produce was grown and how it was used / edited by C. Anne Wilson.

Publication

London : Sutton Pub., in association with the National Trust, c1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wilson, C. Anne
• Leeds Symposium on Food History (10th : 1995)

Description

xi, 212 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"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.

Series Statement

Food and society ; 9

Uniform Title

Food and society 9.

Alternative Title

Kitchen garden, 1600-1950

Subject

• Vegetable gardening > Great Britain > History > Congresses
• Kitchen gardens > Great Britain > History > Congresses
• Fruit-culture > Great Britain > History > Congresses
• Herb gardening > Great Britain > History > Congresses
• Cooking, British > History > Congresses
• Country homes > Great Britain > History > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• "Based on papers from the Tenth Leeds Symposium on Food History, April 1995"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-197) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The garden -- Digging, sowing and cropping in the open ground, 1600-1900 / Susan Campbell -- The supply of seeds, plants and trees to the kitchen garden and orchard, 1600-1800 / Malcolm Thick -- The walled gardens at Shrugborough in Staffordshire / Simone Sekers -- Growing aromatic herbs and flowers for food and physic / C. Anne Wilson -- Glasshouses and frames, 1600-1900 / Susan Campbell -- Walled gardens and the cultivation of orchard fruits in the south-west of England / Todd Gray -- The country house kitchen garden in Scotland, 1600-1900 / Una A. Robertson -- The produce -- From garden to table: how produce was prepared for immediate consumption / C. Anne Wilson -- Preserving the fruit and vegetable harvest, 1600-1700 / Joan Thirsk -- Of each a handful: medicinal herbs in the country house / Layinka Swinburne -- Select bibliography 1577-1845 -- Further reading -- National Trust properties: walled gardens, orangeries.

ISBN

0750914238

LCCN

^^^98200234^

OCLC

• 40181065
• SCSB-11250444

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library