Designed for vegetarians and healthy-living enthusiasts, "Cooking Vegetables Instead of Meat", is a vintage cookbook full of simple but effective recipes for delicious vegetable cuisine. This timeless cookbook is highly recommended for everyone looking to spice up their culinary competence, and it is not to be missed by modern vegetarians seeking inspiration. Contents: "Vegetable Hot-Pot", "Bak…
This fascinating collection of traditional fruit, botanical, and vegetable wine recipes will delight any amateur winemaker or enthusiast, featuring simple instructions that remain of great practical use today. Learn how to make wines from a variety of hedgerow, orchard and garden ingredients. Complete contents: Wine Making; Home Made Wines; Apple Wine; Apricot Wine; Beetroot Wine; Blackberry Wi…
The Training of the Memory in Art and the Education of the Artist aims to teach the reader how to memorise things like form and colour composition so that they may draw and paint from memory alone. This fantastic guide is highly recommended for all artists, and it would make for a worthy addition to allied collections. The contents include: - The Training of the Memory in Art - Memory of For…
This practical recipe book is sure to delight any beer and ale enthusiast, amateur winemaker, home-brewer, or beer historian, providing instructions on brewing methods and traditional recipes for a variety of ales, beers and wines. Illustrated with useful diagrams throughout, it also includes suggestions on brewer's yeast supplements. Contents include: Beer Brewing; Burton Ale; Windsor Ale; Bav…
Authored by various experts, these vintage books reveal how to create traditional British sweets, long-loved by young and old, and are sure to delight anyone with an interest in old-time confectionary. This edition features a variety of delicious nougat recipes, including caramel, maple and popcorn flavours, in addition to nougat paste, hard nougat and classic nougatines. Full contents: Confect…
Authored by various experts, this vintage series of books reveals how to create traditional British sweets, long-loved by young and old, and is sure to delight anyone with an interest in old-time confectionary. This edition addresses the boiled sweet, from the acid drop and peppermint twist to lemon barley sugar and the honey drop. Full contents: Confectionery - Boiled Sweets - Coating Syrup - …
"Vegetarian Puddings" is a vintage book full of fantastic, old-style recipes for meatless desserts and sweet dishes. These simple and to-the-point recipes are suitable for amateurs and experienced cooks alike, and they are ideal for modern vegetarians looking for interesting alternatives. Contents include: "Sweet Dishes", "Sultana Pudding", "Apple and Raisin Tart", "Ginger Sponge Pudding", "Bon…
A portrait of a young artist's formative years studying sculpture in Paris, recounted in her own words Angela Gregory is considered by many the doyenne of Louisiana sculpture and is a notable twentieth century American sculptor. In A Dream and a Chisel, Angela Gregory and Nancy Penrose explore Gregory's desire, even as a teenager, to learn the art of cutting stone and to become a sculptor. Thr…
MARGARET PRESTON is Australia's most original painter. Essentially a pioneer, she strikes out new paths, and her fervour for experiment has led her into diverse forms of art. As she has mastered each new method she discards it and moves on to something fresh. Her latest conquest is the Monotype, and this book reveals her achievement in this field. As a practical craftsman, she found intense ple…
Margaret Preston, Australia's foremost woman painter between the wars, sent a series of shock-waves through Sydney's art circles with her vital art, her spirited journalism and her belligerent enthusiasm for living, during a career that spanned over seventy years. 'A red-headed little firebrand of a woman', she was an artist who never stood still, moving from realism to Post-Impressionism, to a…