100 Edible & Healing Flowers: Cultivating, Cooking, Restoring Health
Margaret Roberts
Language: English
Pages: 224
ISBN: 1775840379
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Margaret Roberts shares her secrets for creating an edible garden that will not only nurture and heal the body with the health-giving plants it produces, but will also be a place of beauty to nurture the soul. Each plant is dealt with in detail, with advice on the best conditions for growing it, and how to harness its healing and culinary potential. The recipes are easy to prepare and range from health-boosting soups and salads to mouth-watering desserts and party fare. And there's a wide range of medicinal and cosmetic preparations, from teas and tonics to creams and lotions. Beautifully presented and packed with information.
REVIEWS
"Roberts offers this colorful encyclopedia of herbs and flowers with descriptions of their therapeutic and culinary uses. A thumbnail table of contents and enthusiastic introduction precede a guide to planning, compost, mulching, and propagation of plants. The flowers and herbs are then covered in alphabetical order, with entries discussing history, cultivation, and medicinal use, and providing recipes for medicinal, cosmetic, and food items that include it. A therapeutic quick reference in the back matches plants to ailments, in addition to flower and recipe indices."
Protoview (previously known as Book News), 2014/06
"Margaret Roberts is a well-known proponent of the use of natural products to enhance health and wellbeing. In 100 Edible and Healing Flowers, she encourages readers to create a garden of flowers that can be used in celebrations, in the kitchen, and also to produce medicines and cosmetics. In this hands-on, practical book, Margaret instructs how and when to plant, grow and harvest flowers, and supplies recipes that harness the medicinal, cosmetic and edible nature of these plants. The accessible, down-to-earth text is spiced with personal anecdotes and information about the historical use of flowers in herbalism. Colourful photographs aid identification, and Margaret’s delicate line drawings add an appealing touch of whimsy to this elegant book."
City Farmer News, 2014/06
"100 Edible and Healing Flowers by Margaret Roberts is the most magical book and I believe one could live a very healthy life by using the advice in this book. The photos of each flower are gorgeous, and Margaret tells how to cultivate and harvest each one and how to use its goodness not only to beautify your garden and home but also how to cure many ills. Each flower is listed with the ways to treat the ills that it helps heal. The many recipes that are included are for both foods and medicinal uses of the lovely flowers. These must be grown organically in order to be safe for consuming, and Margaret tells even the novice gardener just how to do this. For anyone, this book is TERRIFIC!"
Bonnie Neely, Amazon top reviewer, Real Travel Adventures, 2014/06/28
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forgotten about! It benefits from picking as the more you pick the more flowers it produces. Sow seed in boxes in autumn and keep them warm, protected and moist throughout winter. Transplant seedlings in late winter to a well-dug, well-composted bed in full sun, spaced 40 cm apart. The mature height of the plant is about 30 cm. MEDICINAL USES Although similar in effect to the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), the Californian poppy has a very different effect in that it is not narcotic and it
forgotten about! It benefits from picking as the more you pick the more flowers it produces. Sow seed in boxes in autumn and keep them warm, protected and moist throughout winter. Transplant seedlings in late winter to a well-dug, well-composted bed in full sun, spaced 40 cm apart. The mature height of the plant is about 30 cm. MEDICINAL USES Although similar in effect to the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), the Californian poppy has a very different effect in that it is not narcotic and it
soften and cleanse the skin. In past centuries, gardenias were cultivated for the empresses of Japan to wear in their hair, for corsages, and for use in the bath. In the cooler months they were cultivated in tubs in greenhouses to ensure their bounty of flowers. Gardenia flowers are still used in cooking in many rural areas today, and can be added to sugar, drinks, fruit salads, desserts and syrups. To scent tea in the ancient Chinese way, tuck a fresh gardenia flower into a tin of loose tea
handle gardenia petals with the greatest of care as they turn brown very easily; it is important to prepare and add them just before serving. Sprinkle the petals with lemon juice to prevent them from discolouring. Garland chrysanthemum Chrysanthemum coronarium • Chop suey greens • Edible chrysanthemum This attractive, bright and easily grown annual is popular in oriental cuisine, and has only recently been introduced to the rest of the world. It has been grown for centuries in gardens all over