Vintage Vegetables
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This little book, published in England in 1925, is one of my all-time favorites. It's filled with a number of astonishingly good recipes, a reminder that the English middle class and aristocracy ate very well before wars and rationing destroyed their national cuisine.
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The vegetable recipes are especially interesting. Here, for example, are some great recipes for the English peas which are starting to show up in markets now.
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And here some excellent ideas for spinach. I'm particularly intrigued by this Italian (obviously Venetian) recipe.
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And finally, these rather mad recipes from the chapter called "Dishes from the Arabian Nights." Can't wait to try those eggs; will they really have "the flavour of chestnuts"?
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