Year in the Valley
Page 29
Lemon
Butter 292–293
Cream 250
Lime
Butter 292–293
Juice Carrots 24–25
Juice Cordial 40–41
Lotions & Handcreams
Good-Beeswax-and-Various-Stuff-from-the-Garden Handcream 201–202
Heart’s-Ease Handcream 201
Mandarin Butter 292–293
Mulberry Crush 99
Omelette
Asparagus 52–53
Ginger 258–259
Onions, Tiny, in Mango Chutney 147
Orange Blossom Jam 68
Pasta Thingummies 185
Peaches
Boned Chicken 73–75
Baked 215–216
Baked with Almond Macaroons 211–212
Champagne 87
Chilli Peach Soup 285–286
Cold Peach and Curry Chicken 129–130
Crumble 119–120
Dried 117
Dried Peach and Pine Nut Cakes 8–9
Dried-Peach Fool with Macadamias 46
Duck Stuffed with Dried Peaches and Couscous, with Baked Peach Gravy 286–287
Early Peach Jam 87–88
Fresh Peach Melba 108–109
Ginger Pudding Cake 224
Grilled 102–103
Harvest Tart 193–194
Hot Dried-Peach Salad 36
Hot Peach Soup 223
Ice Cream 151
Mimosa 116
Mousse 216
Peach and Parmesan Individual Souffles 277
Poached with Vanilla, Ginger and Chilli 232–233
Ricotta Cheesecake with Pine Nuts and Peaches 276
Sorbet 101–102
Pest Repellent 122
Pomegranate Cordial 246–247
Potato
and Cauliflower Soup 38
How to Boil 300
Perfect Potato Cake 289–291
Raspberry Jam, Uncooked 112
Ricotta Cheese with Pine Nuts and Peaches 276
Roots
Bread 301
Celery 299–300
Wild 298–299
Roses
Eglantine Sauce 226
Infallible Love-Potion 96
Medieval Kissing Sweets 97
Perfume 173
Rum and Roses Fruit Cake 126–127
Sugared Petals 97
Syrup 247
Salad
Beetroot 298
Hot Dried-Peach 36
Sleep Pillow 188–189
Snails 106
Soup
Aphrodisiac Celery 258
Basic Bottom-of-the-Garden 313–314
Carrot 314
Celery 258 Chilli Peach 285
Hot Peach 223
Potato and Cauliflower 38
Stuffed Vine Leaves 190–191
Syrup, Rose 247
Tart, Harvest 193–194
Tomato
1990s Aussie Tomato Sandwich 16
Classic Aussie Tomato Sandwiches 168–169
How to peel 169–170
Tomato Jam 170
Veal, Verjuice 249–250
Vegetables
Summer Veg in Olive Oil 160–161
Sunrise Veg 355–356
Vine Leaves, Stuffed 190–191
Window Cleaner, Fragrant 18
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A year in the valley / Jackie French.
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French, Jackie – Homes and haunts – New South Wales
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Food supply – Seasonal variations.
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Araluen Region (N.S.W.) – Description and travel.
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