The Rosewood Cottage Cookbook
A year of forgotten recipes from a country kitchen
One hundred and forty pages of the dishes that have simmered on my range for six decades. Nothing fashionable. Only food that comforts.
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A Word Before We Begin
This little book began not as a book at all, but as a collection of flour-dusted index cards stuffed into a blue tin that once held violet creams, a tin I have carried with me through four house moves, two decades of village fêtes, and more Sunday lunches than memory can honestly count. It is a book about cooking the way my mother cooked, and her mother before her — without theatre, without fuss, with a great deal of butter and an even greater deal of patience. If you come to these pages looking for novelty, I am afraid I shall disappoint you. But if you come hungry for something you cannot quite name, something that tastes of an autumn evening or a wet Tuesday made bearable by a pot on the stove, then pull up a chair and we shall get along very well indeed. ---
— Agnes
"The recipes my grandmother never wrote down — now gathered for you."
I began copying these recipes onto scraps of paper when I was nineteen, standing at my mother's elbow. Most were never measured — a handful of this, a knob of that, until it looked right. For years I feared they would be lost when I was gone. So I sat, season by season, and wrote every one down properly: the soups that carried us through hard winters, the puddings that made ordinary Sundays feel like feast days, the preserves that line my pantry still. This is not a clever book. It is an honest one. Cook from it slowly, and let your kitchen fill with the smell of a house that is loved.
A companion for a gentler home
- 140 tested, forgiving recipes for every season
- Written in plain words, no fuss, no failure
- Menus for Sunday lunches, harvest suppers and quiet nights in
- Printable and beautifully typeset for your own kitchen shelf
- The full 140-page illustrated cookbook (PDF)
- A seasonal menu planner
- My hand-drawn measurement conversion card
- 12 pressed-flower recipe cards to print
Inside these pages
- 01A Word Before We Begin
- 02Spring: Green Things & New Beginnings
- 03Summer: The Garden's Gift
- 04Autumn: Harvest & Hearth
- 05Winter: Slow Suppers
- 06Puddings & Comforts
- 07The Sunday Table
Preview pages
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