Wild Teas, Coffees and Cordials

The author, Hilary Stewart provides background into the growing habits of fifty (50) species of plants found in the Pacific Northwest, including how and when to harvest, dry and store the plant parts. She also provides a variety of methods and recipes for making herbal teas and coffees, cool lemonades, hot spicy drinks, refreshing juices, even cordials. This enticing, timeless book is an attractive and handy guidebook that will open up a whole world of plants for brewing tasty teas and refreshing drinks. The author's own finely worked line drawings, reproduced full page, accompany each plant, enabling readers without extensive botanical knowledge to find and identify these plants. This book is also filled with other interesting tidbits (i.e., mountain sorrel is so high in vitamin C that it was once eaten to prevent scurvy).