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The Garden Cottage Diaries: My Year in the Eighteenth Century

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By (author): Fiona J. Houston

Challenged to prove her claim that an 18th-century diet was better than today's, for a full year Fiona J Houston recreated the lifestyle of her 1790s rural Scottish ancestors in a basic one-roomed cottage, cooking from her garden and the wild, often entertaining family and friends, and surviving on her own resources. She learned lost crafts and skills, making nettle string, quill pens and ink as well as cheese and ale, lighting her fire from flints, and dressing in hand-sewn period clothing, with nothing but an old range stove and candles for warmth and light. This beautiful, quirky, illustrated title tells her extraordinary story and is packed with historical anecdotes, folklore, practical gardening info, seasonal menus, recipes, wildlife notes and more. Includes linocuts, photos and historic engravings. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 800g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 224mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Sep 2010
  • Publisher: Saraband
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781887354776

About Fiona J. Houston

Fiona J Houston is a journalist museum researcher grandmother and campaigner for a greener world. A former schoolteacher avid historianand an experienced gardener and cook her year in the past brought together these skills and passions in a remarkable living-history project.

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