Over the centuries, Britain's dairymaids have played a vital role in producing the ingredients for the dining table--cheese, butter, cream, and eggs. The authors look at the work traditionally undertaken by the dairymaid, then offer mouthwatering recipes for dairy-inspired dishes--Welsh Buttermilk Griddle Pancakes, Chilled Cucumber Mousse, Smoked Trout with Horseradish Cream Sauce, Devon Chicken and Parsley Pie, and Bread and Butter Pudding, to name but a few. In the second part of the book, the authors move to the ice house, explaining in simple terms how to make ices without resorting to complex machinery. Summon up ice creams flavored with saffron, cinnamon, or Seville oranges; try herb sorbets to freshen the palate--or for a wonderfully decadent finish, liqueur parfaits. A delightful collection of recipes, well-seasoned with fascinating historical lore.

Recipes from the Dairy: The National Trust

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Weir, Robin

National Trust (Great Britain)

Liddell, Caroline

Brears, Peter C.D.

Cooking by Ingredient

National Trust

Centenary souvenir, 1895-1995

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

The National Trust

This examination of Vanbrugh's work as a landscape designer also discusses other contemporary architects, designers, botanical collectors and illustrators such as Hawksmoor, Wren, Archer and Lord Burlington, and provides a survey of all the significant baroque landscape designs. An introduction sets the cultural and political scene, describing Vanbrugh's early life, architecture and gardening in England and France during the period and one of Vanbrugh's most important commissions in landscape design, Castle Howard. Subsequent chapters cover how landscape design changed in response to the needs of the country estate, the new enthusiasm for gardening, the growth of interest in botanical specimens and horticultural innovations, flowers and botany in art, garden monuments, the use of follies, and the importance of the cross-over of ideas between England and France. A final chapter looks at how Vanbrugh's reputation and his designs have survived the succeeding centuries.

Sir John Vanbrugh and Landscape Architecture in Baroque England 1690-1730

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Sutton Pub Ltd

The National Trust has recently celebrated its centenary. Set up by three far-sighted Victorians in 1895 to protect places of historic interest or natural beauty, it has over the past hundred years grown from a tiny group into one of the world's leading conservation organisations. The Trust now looks after over 500,000 acres of coast and countryside in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 200 historic houses and 150 great gardens, with the support of over 2.4 million members, and a huge number of volunteers who put in over a million hours of help each year. The National Trust is full of surprises, for as well as the houses, gardens and countryside, it looks after all kind of oddities, such as Gondola, a Victorian, Venetian-style steam yacht that plies Coniston Water in Cumbria, and the rock houses of Kinver Edge in Staffordshire, until recently home to a cave-dwelling community.

The National Trust Guide

Trinick, Michael

Greeves, Lydia

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Christina Hardyment conducted a fascinating quest into the history of housekeeping through the well-preserved properties of Britain's National Trust, among them Petworth, Uppark, Shugborough, and Lanhydrock. To reconstruct the ingenious methods used by earlier generations to make a house a home and to keep themselves warm and well-fed, she squirmed through drains, poked around sculleries and cellars, and clambered into icehouses and up chimneys. The result of her explorations is an informative, amusing text that recounts not only the history of the kitchen, the bathroom, and the laundry, but also investigates bakehouses and breweries, dairies and dovecotes, the lamp room and the larder. Accompanying Hardyment's descriptions of what she found in great mansions, humble cottages, medieval castles and Victorian townhouses are archival documents and accounts and a wealth of color photographs, many taken especially for this book.

Behind the Scenes: Domestic Arrangements in Historic Houses

History

HARDYMENT, Christina

World

Red House: Bexleyheath

Garnett, Oliver

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