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Vivacious china or the casual meal

... hors d'ceuvres dish with a duck motif that comes from Italy. Price 27s. 6d. Obtainable at Liberty's A new way of serving asparagus is provided by means of these novel Portuguese dishes. The large dish, with spoon, costs £1 15s.; the small dishes, 8s. 6d ...

Published: Wednesday 20 April 1955
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 240 | Page: 45 | Tags: Photographs 

AT HOME IN SUSSEX

... d wisteria at the back of the house, Japanese wall-flowers by the ornamental lake, and, in their season, sweet corn and asparagus in the kitchen garden it is a Paradise indeed The entrance to the dining-room is from a small hall. The garden is beyond ...

Published: Wednesday 19 October 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 256 | Page: 37 | Tags: Photographs 

Light Meals for August: Summer Food Suggestions which give the Housewife Time on her hands

... little preparation, and which provide exactly the right kind of food. There are soups in great variety, creams of mushroom, asparagus, and many other vegetables, oxtail, cream of chicken. Entree dishes, complete in themselves, are easily served if you use ...

Published: Wednesday 01 August 1934
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 698 | Page: 73 | Tags: Photographs 

THERE ARE OTHER THINGS THAN WAR: The Mystery of the Kitchen Garden, Village Cricket and English Lawns

... But I caught him out once over the asparagus. I was sent to buy agricultural salt for the asparagus bed. I found in the shop an eminent scientist in horticulture. He asked me why I applied salt specially to asparagus. I presumed that its nature required ...

Published: Saturday 18 May 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1859 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LIGHTS OF PARIS: Quatorze Juillet

... Honoured. betfer friends of gastronomic joys than of romance went to Argen- teuil, which was celebrating the centenary of asparagus Yes, it is now a hundred years since Argenteuil produced this delectable vegetable. Surely that event could not pass unnoticed ...

Published: Wednesday 19 July 1922
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1101 | Page: 66 | Tags: Photographs 

The Man Without an Overcoat

... you know. I haven't finished yet. Sally regarded the empty basket of eggs. Have some asparagus he suggested. Sally made a little grimace of indecision. Asparagus she dwelt on the word hesitatingly it's not got much taste at this time of year however ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1922
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1623 | Page: 46 | Tags: Photographs 

Some Timely Reminders

... as a pestilent heresy. When ever I eat asparagus I pick it up and suck away at it, and I shall continue to do so. Therein lies half the pleasure. I will undertake to say that when Charles Lamb found that asparagus inspired gentle thoughts he did not hack ...

Published: Wednesday 09 February 1910
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1351 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

Crab heads hot weather menu

... Sole in Aspic is an excellent cold fish dish. The recipe I give here calls also for tiny tomatoes, cooked peas and canned asparagus tips. Skin and fillet 1 to 2 soles. Break the bones and place them in a pan with the heads and skin, salt to taste, a few ...

Published: Wednesday 20 July 1955
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 751 | Page: 44 | Tags: Photographs 

LADIES IN THE COUNTRY XVIII

... of thefr flowers wearied her because she did not kno\ 9 many. y Does not it seem curious Now I cow-V hours making a new asparagus bed, or prunin garden is at all times a source of infinite delig know you find it so too, though you always we to seek spring ...

The Next Fortnight: Hardening Off

... earlier it sometimes runs to seed prematurely. Sowing and general culture at this stage is similar to that for parsnips. Asparagus and rhubarb crowns are scarce and rather expensive. If you can afford to wait two or three years for these crops, raising ...

Tennis Court to Kitchen Garden

... most other places, though a load or two will be dug into ground to be occupied by such permanent things as rasp berries, asparagus, etc. Time and Soot Dressing The whole plot will be given a top dressing of lime to sweeten the soil and kill any pests in ...

The Growing Importance--and Perfection--of Tinned Food

... most of us limited our ideas of the tinned items in our store cupboard to sardines, tomato soup, baked beans, and possibly asparagus or peas. A visit to the vegetable canning factory of Messrs. Chivers at Huntingdon would quickly enlighten them. Here are ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1932
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 866 | Page: 89 | Tags: Photographs