The Fragrant Pantry: Floral Scented Jams, Jellies and Liqueurs

An already acclaimed cookbook by James Beard award winning chef Frances Bissell setting out the techniques and recipes for the use of flowers in the kitchen.

While the use of flowers in cookery is becoming ever more popular, they often feature as little more than decoration. In The Fragrant Pantry, the third volume of an already acclaimed trilogy, Frances Bissell shows us how the scent and flavor of flowers can be used like that of an herb or a spice to add magic to a range of dishes.

In these pages you will find recipes for preserves as diverse as myrtle-scented figs, peach and lavender mostarda, rum and jasmine mincemeat, wild garlic flower pesto, mango, jasmine and lime kulfi, elderflower, cucumber and lemon gin and gorgeous gillyflower grappa. You will also discover how the delicate taste of rose petals can transform raspberry ice cream. And you will learn the way in which fresh edible flowers or floral extracts can be used to create exquisite preserves.

For Frances Bissell cooking with flowers is not a fad or a fashion, but a natural way of cooking which reflects the seasons, and which owes much to English culinary traditions going back over centuries. These easy-to-follow recipes allow both the experienced and novice cook to experiment with floral cooking with real confidence.

Author: Frances Bissell
Publisher: OR Books
Published: 01/30/2018
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781944869502

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 12/26/2017

About the Author
The first woman chef to be elected to the Academy of Culinary Arts in 1997, FRANCES BISSELL has been guest chef in some of the world's leading hotels and restaurants, including the Café Royal in London, and the George V in Paris. A lecturer, broadcaster, and TV presenter, she is the author of many books and was the Times' (of London) food writer for thirteen years. She has been the recipient of the Glenfiddich Award for Cookery Writer of the Year in Britain and the James Beard Foundation Award in the United States for her Book of Food.