The Herbal Pantry

By Emelie Tolley

Health-conscious cooks and gardeners alike have long enjoyed the flavor benefits that fresh and dried herbs impart to almost any recipe. Now Emelie Tolley and Chris Mead, award-winning authors of three influential books on herb cookery, crafts, and cultivation, show how stocking the pantry with flavorful herbal sauces, seasonings, and condiments can give even the simplest foods a zesty dash of flavor -- effortlessly! From flavored oils and vinegars to convenient herbal seasoning blends and salt substitutes and a delectable array of herbed condiments, honeys, mustards, and liqueurs, the more than 150 recipes in The Herbal Pantry are long-lasting, easy ways to preserve the pleasures of the herb garden. A pantry full of delicious herbal food enhancers is a fast, convenient way to enliven weekday meals, make quick and delicious party fare, and elevate any meal from breakfast to late-night snacks to a special occasion. And packaged in pretty bottles or antique jars, a selection of herbal treats makes a thoughtful and personal gift that will be appreciated throughout the year. Tolley and Mead also suggest dozens of inviting ways to use herbal pantry items, like savory focaccia with thyme-and-garlic marinated olives, a refreshing herbal tea granita, and a succulent baked ham with a glaze of basil mustard. Whether your culinary tastes run to exotic chutneys or homey pickles and jams, The Herbal Pantry will provide exciting new ways to savor the pleasures of herbs all year long.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517583313
• ISBN13: 9780517583319
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.8" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

I love this book!

Someone gave me this book for my 50th birthday many years ago, and I have been using it ever since. All my friends get my herbal liqueurs or jams or oils or vinegars for holiday gifts, and I keep plenty for myself. I love this book!

A MUST for every herb gardener!

I've had this book for three years now, and it's by far the best herbal cookbook I've ever read. It has recipes for herbal butters, liquors, teas, jams and jellies, and much more. A keeper!!

Great Ideas for using herbs!

I first got this book from the library and had to get one of my own. It is filled with numerous easy recipes to use the abundance of herbs that fill my summer garden! I really liked too that there are ideas of how to use all of the vinegars, oils, etc- nothing is worse than getting or giving a bottle of something that you have no idea how to use!

Herbal Masterpiece

Another of Tolley and Mead's Herbal Masterpieces! I loved it. As always, their pictures are beautiful and inspiring, and the text is clear and well written. Wonderful herbal recipes for jellies, vinegars, oils, preserves, and much more. If you enjoy herbs, this book is a must!

this book is visually wonderful & the recipes are WONDERFUL!

This book contains some of the most creative and special ideas for honeys, jellies, herbs, butters, pastries, olives... the list goes on and on.It uses incredible ingredients such as lemon scented geranium and rose petals and the photographs make you feel like you want to make every last thing in the book.I borrowed the book from my mother for so long that i finally HAD to get my own copy!!!