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Old 13-02-2007, 08:12 PM
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Hi Sue A
I picked up the Allotment Gardener's Cookbook from Wyevale when we were passing about a month ago. It was reduced then £4.99 from £9.99 so I picked it up without really examining it. I've not posted about it here, because it hasn't really grabbed me.
The first bit about Preserving, drying herbs, flavoured vinegars and freezing is moderately interesting, but there are too many pictures and the pages are quite hard to turn for an elderly, arthritic crone like me.

There are nearly 100 pages of desserts (which we eat very rarely) before the vegetable recipes. These have been listed in alphabetical order, so asparagus comes first, and winter root vegeables last. Unfortunately the recipes are not listed in the contents, and there is an index, but it's very hard to find, so unless you know you want to make 'something with celeriac' you have to painstakingly turn over all the pages to find anything.
This book will obviously suit many people, but sorry, it doesn't do it for me. Having said that, there are one or two recipes - courgette tea bread for instance which I will log and possibly try at some point.
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