Describes the recent restoration of a Victorian kitchen garden, tells how Victorians handled garden pests, grew exotic fruits, and obtained fruits and vegetables out of season, and discusses the role of these gardens in Victorian society

The Victorian Kitchen Garden

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

DAVIES, Jennifer

Gardening & Landscape Design

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

The Victorian Kitchen

Published alongside the BBC TV series of the same name, this book takes a look "below stairs" to find out what domestic life was really like in Victorian times. The book describes in detail the meals the kitchen staff had to prepare, and includes a section on preserving and a list of recipes.

History

Bbc Pubns

The Victorian Flower Garden

B B C Books

Illustrated with period drawings, engravings and colour photographs of the kitchen restored for the BBC television series on which the book is based, this is an insight into a bygone age. The "upstairs/downstairs" image is of maids in starched aprons overseen by an outwardly stern cook with a heart of gold, but what was life really like "below stairs" in Victorian times? Looking behind the scenes at the vast collection of equipment used, from the dusty, smoky range, which was cleaned and coaxed into life at 6 o'clock each morning, to the gleaming coppers which were every cook's pride and joy, the book also meets Ruth Mott, the cook featured in the television series. She started work as a scullery maid in an old-style country house in 1930, when mansion kitchens still ran on Victorian lines. There are details of the Victorian culinary technique of preserving; of the five meals a day prepared by the kitchen staff - breakfast, luncheon, tea, dinner and supper; and of a collection of recipes specially adapted from Victorian cookery books. Jennifer Davies also wrote "The Victorian Kitchen Garden" and "The Victorian Flower Garden".

Published to tie in with a BBC2 series and an Imperial War Museum exhibition, this book takes readers back to the days when Hitler's U-boats patrolled the Atlantic, and imported foods were scarce. For the men, woman and children left behind during World War II, life changed dramatically. People who had never gardened before had to start growing their own fruit and vegetables, housewives had to cope with rationing, and their families had to get used to unfamiliar foods such as spam and nettle soup. The book includes the personal memories of Ruth Mott and Harry Dodson (television's "Victorian" cook and gardener, respectively), as well as tales and anecdotes from many people who remember wartime cookery and "digging for victory".

The Wartime Kitchen and Garden

BBC Books

Jack and his wife Gevoner tell of their travels, as do many other gypsies: Eli Frankham, boxer, gypsy spokesman and musician; Fred Stephenson, breeder of lurchers; and the Coulsons of County Durham, scrap and coal merchants. Most of the story-tellers are old enough to have seen the last of the traditional travelling life of their kind, and their tales carry through them the threads of typical gypsy culture, including respect for tradition and elders, love of children, superstition and passion for horse fairs and fist fights.

Tales Old Gypsies

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

David&Charles

A profusely illustrated, gracefully written social history of the florist, from its Victorian heyday to present-day Britain.

Saying It with Flowers : the Story of the Flower Shop

Business & Money

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Safe in print: memories of Donnington, Ryton and Broomsgreen

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The Victorian Kitchen Garden

The Victorian Kitchen

The Victorian Flower Garden

The Victorian Kitchen

The Wartime Kitchen and Garden

Tales Old Gypsies

Saying It with Flowers : the Story of the Flower Shop

Safe in print: memories of Donnington, Ryton and Broomsgreen