Nan K. Chase, Deneice C. Guest

Drink the Harvest (eBook, ePUB)

Making and Preserving Juices, Wines, Meads, Teas, and Ciders

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Preserving the harvest doesn't have to stop with jam and pickles. Many fruits, vegetables, and herbs can be made into delicious beverages to enjoy fresh or preserve for later. Drink the Harvest presents simple recipes accompanied by mouthwatering photographs for a variety of teas, syrups, ciders, wines, and kombuchas. DeNeice C. Guest and Nan K. Chase also provide advice for harvesting ingredients for maximum flavor and even creating your own backyard beverage garden. Pour a refreshing glass of Passionflower-Lemon Balm Wine and drink in the possibilities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781603429139
• Artikelnr.: 41815567

Autorenporträt

Nan K. Chase is the co-author of Drink the Harvest. A member of the Garden Writers Association and of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Nan has been a freelance journalist for 35 years. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Fine Gardening, Old House Journal, American Bungalow, Southern Living, and many other publications. She is a frequent lecturer for garden organizations, writers groups, and business groups, and enjoys doing radio, video, and book festival appearances. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

DeNeice C. Guest, co-author of Drink the Harvest, has been studying wild herbs and gardening for over 30 years, and has been making and brewing herbal-based tonics, beverages and medicines for the last decade. She has amassed a collection of some 100 original, kitchen-tested recipes. Guest is a charter member of the Asheville E-Z Gardeners, a garden club in Asheville, North Carolina, founded in 2010, and she created the club's signature wine, E-Z Gardeners Passionflower-Lemon Balm Wine.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 - From Garden to Kitchen
 
1
 
Introduction
 
Finding Beverages in Your Garden
 
The Joys of Juice (and Other Drinks)
Where's the Juice?
You Have the Skills
Your Garden's Already Perfect
 
2
 
Growing a Beverage Garden
 
Meet Our Favorite Plants
Pruning for Production
 
3
 
Harvesting & Preparation
 
Reaping What You've Sown
Is It Ripe Yet?
Equipment: Keeping It Simple
Clear the Decks!
 
Part 2 - Juices & Fermented Beverages
 
4
 
Creating Fruit & Vegetable Drinks
 
Juice or Cider
How to Make Juice
Refrigeration and Freezing
How to Can
Step-by-Step Canning
 
Recipes:
Berry Juice
Strawberry Juice
Peach Juice
Big Wow Grape Cider
Crab Apple Juice
Apple Juice
Apple Family Cider
Peerless Pear Cider
Happy Time Pear Juice
Prickly Pear Cactus Juice
Tomato Juice
Sensational-7 Vegetable Drink
DeNeice's Super-Heated Bloody Mary Mixer
 
5
 
Creating Wines, Meads & Specialty Drinks
 
A Garden Full of Wine
The Hardest Part is Patience
How Fermentation Works
Different Kinds of Fermented Drinks
Managing the Must
How to Make Wine
Racking
Time to Bottle
 
Recipes:
Easy Garden Grape Wine
All-Around Herb Wine
Dandelion Wine
Garden Mint Wine
Parsley Wine
Passionflower-Lemon Balm Wine
Heirloom Potato Wine
Prickly Pear Cactus Wine
Bitchin' Birch Wine
Basic Mead
Red, White, and Blueberry Mead
Mixed Berry Mead
Old Crabby Mead
Spiced Apple Mead
Very Perry Holiday Mead
Crab Apple Rice Wine
Nan's Crab Apple SuperCider
Peerless Perry
Luscious Limoncello
 
Part 3 - Syrups & Teas
 
6
 
Creating Garden Syrups
 
The Beauty of Homemade Syrups
Just Add Sugar and Boil!
 
Recipes:
Fruit Juice Syrup
Mint Syrup
Watermelon-Mint Syrup
Concentrated Watermelon Syrup
Peach-Rosemary Syrup
Blueberry-Basil Syrup
Spiced Ginger-Bay Syrup
One World Apple Spice Syrup
Tart Cherry Syrup
Prickly Pear Cactus Syrup
 
7
 
Creating Garden Teas
 
Teas for Two or More
Making Garden Teas
Plants for Making Tea
 
Recipes:
Citrus Peel Tea
Rose Hip Tea
Making Kombucha
 
Glossary
Metric Conversion Chart
Resources
Index