In an old farmhouse on the slopes of a mountain lying between Tregaron and Aberystwyth, Elisabeth Luard brings the produce of the land into her kitchen and turns it into delicious food. This book is her response to the changes she sees in her garden and the surrounding countryside throughout the seasons, with distinctive recipes at the end of each month's chapter. It is the story of a year spent planting and picking in the garden, roaming the countryside with her grandchildren and introducing them to the pleasures of rural living. Elisabeth's cooking is rooted in the culture of the Mediterranean where she once lived, as well as being inspired by traditional Welsh recipes and by her own garden. In winter she stirs up warming dishes like Spanish biscocho or Welsh winter cawl; in the spring she waits until the first mayflower comes to bloom before planting lettuces, mangetouts and broad beans in her garden. She relies on locally sourced meat for dishes like Partridges with baby onions and cinnamon in red wine, Rabbit with tagliatelle, cream and mustard or Ceps with potatoes and bacon, and rakes the countryside for ingredients like fruit for Hedgerow jelly, nettles for soup, elderflowers for cordial, cake or even fritters. With full colour photography by Clare Richardson that perfectly captures the sense of life in the Welsh countryside, this is a unique and beautiful book.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
9781408806463
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104092559
Product Key Features
Book Title
A Cook's Year in a Welsh Farmhouse
Author
Elisabeth Luard
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Local Interest
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Cookbooks
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
224mm
Item Width
164mm
Item Weight
819g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Elisabeth Luard
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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