Herbal Vinegar: Flavored Vinegars, Mustards, Chutneys, Preserves, Conserves, Salsas, Cosmetic Uses, Household Tips - Softcover

Oster, Maggie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0882668439 ISBN 13: 9780882668437

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC, 1994

Synopsis

Explore the many flavorful possibilities of vinegar. With dozens of recipes for infusing vinegar with herbs, spices, vegetables, and flowers, Maggie Oster fills this delightful book with mouthwatering mixtures that go far beyond salad dressing. Use your homemade vinegars to add some zing to everything from Green Chile and Cilantro Sambal to the white cream sauce enriching your pork chops. Oster also includes tips on making cleaning products from vinegar, so you can keep your kitchen naturally spotless when you’re done cooking.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Vinegar is versatile!

And this book covers it all --

-- Directions for buying, making, and flavoring inexpensive, easy-to-make vinegars -- dozens of ideas for combination herb, spice, vegetable, and flower vinegars

-- Recipes for using flavored vinegars -- just a splash for exhilarating basic vinaigrettes, fruit and vegetable salsas, flavorful and tenderizing marinades, spicy dessert sauces, and many more.

-- Gift packaging ideas and customized labels

-- Step-by-step instructions for growing flavorful herbs indoors and out

-- Household uses and hints -- more than 100 home uses for vinegar, including polishing chrome, prolonging the life of cut flowers, and preparing natural beauty treatments

About the Author

Author Maggie Oster has been cooking since she was five years old. A trained horticulturist, freelance writer and photographer, Maggie has also written other Storey book titles including Herbal Vinegar and Herb Mixtures & Spicy Blends. In addition, she has written the books The Potato Garden, Flowering Herbs, Gifts and Crafts from the Garden and Recipes from an American Herb Garden. She attended graduate school at Cornell University, and was former editor of an indoor and container-gardening magazine based in Seattle, Washington. Maggie has also contributed to Rodale's Basic Natural Foods Cookbook, has written monthly columns for The Weekend Gardener Journal and Louisville Today magazines, and won an award for an article and photographs on cooking with edible flowers in The Newark Star-Ledger. She lives in Kentucky.

About this edition

• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0882668439
• ISBN 13: 9780882668437
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176