Making Liqueurs for Gifts : Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-101

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

Create delicious, elegant liqueurs for entertaining or gift giving. It's easier than you think!

This complete guide serves up more than 100 easy recipes for delicious cordials to suit every occasion, including fruit-, nut-, herb-, and cream-based liqueurs, "candy cordials," coffee liqueurs, and flavored brandies, vodkas, and rums.

Recipes include:

— Cinnamon Coffee Liqueur, Creme de Cacao, and Ouzo

— Mint Julep, Rosemary-Tangerine, and Ginger Liqueurs

— Black Walnut, Hazelnut, and Vanilla Butternut Liqueurs

— Black Currant, Strawberry, Peach, Apple, and Melon Liqueurs

— Spiced Blackberry Brandy, Peach Brandy, Lemon Vodka, and Pineapple Rum

— Peaches and Cream, Dreamsicle Liqueur, and Chocolate Covered Cherry Cream

Cordials from Your Kitchen offers home-crafted versions of popular and traditional favorites, along with an astonishing array of original recipes. This thorough guide also presents simple recipes for using cordials to make deliciousdishes, desserts, and spirited fruits, and suggests creative gift-giving ideas.

Bring the Juice Bar Home with These Simple, Nourishing Formulas!

Now you can mix up health-promoting herbal concoctions right in your own kitchen! From teas and tinctures to smoothies, elixirs, and healing soups, these tasty recipes are easy to make with common ingredients and basic cooking equipment. Tonics are safe and enjoyable to take on a regular basis to promote the strength, immunity, and energy you need to feel better and stay healthier day after day.

Whether you are feeling stressed or low in energy, wish to boost your mental clarity or increase your stamina, want to ease digestive discomfort or support heart health, Jeanine Pollak has formulated an all-natural herbal tonic to meet your individual needs. Nurture your own well-being with recipes such as:

Garden of Eden Elixir - Instant Kiss Euphoria Honey - Tarzan's Total Tonic - Cyclone Cider Deluxe - Spaz-Away Tincture - Post-Potluck 911 - Summer Superman Energy Shake - Steamin' Mama's Lemonade - Herbal-a-Go-Go Energy Elixir

Cooks either buy them or grow them, but herbs have become essential ingredients in the average kitchen. Herbal entrepreneurs actively engaged in aspects of growing, selling, teaching, or writing have contributed recipes to this compendium featuring tasty mixtures aimed at enhancing everything from appetizers to entrees. Blends to flavor cheese spreads and potato dishes are followed by spicy combinations for pastas, soups, vegetables, and main dishes of meat, fish, or poultry. Ethnic fare and blended herbs for assorted teas complete the offerings. Of particular interest are the brief introductions to individual herbalists.

The popularity of pre-mixed herb and spice blends has boomed in recent years as cooks have sought ways to make healthy dishes that are spicy and tasty while not requiring a great deal of added salt or fat. With this book, cooks can learn to make more than 100 healthy, easy dried blends with fresh herbs from the garden or dried herbs from the grocer.

Vinegar is versatile!

And this book covers it all --

-- Directions for buying, making, and flavoring inexpensive, easy-to-make vinegars -- dozens of ideas for combination herb, spice, vegetable, and flower vinegars

-- Recipes for using flavored vinegars -- just a splash for exhilarating basic vinaigrettes, fruit and vegetable salsas, flavorful and tenderizing marinades, spicy dessert sauces, and many more.

-- Gift packaging ideas and customized labels

-- Step-by-step instructions for growing flavorful herbs indoors and out

-- Household uses and hints -- more than 100 home uses for vinegar, including polishing chrome, prolonging the life of cut flowers, and preparing natural beauty treatments

With dozens of recipes for infusing vinegar with herbs, spices, vegetables, and flowers, this delightful book takes vinegar far beyond salad dressing. Learn to make your favorite homemade vinegars and then use them in dozens of delicious recipes for appetizers, main dishes, sides, salads, desserts, condiments, and more! Oster also includes tips on using vinegar in house cleaning, for improved health, and in self-care products such as facial tonics, hair rinses, and bath mixtures. This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA. Explore the many flavorful possibilities of vinegar. With dozens of recipes for infusing vinegar with herbs, spices, vegetables, and flowers, Maggie Oster fills this delightful book with mouthwatering mixtures that go far beyond salad dressing. Use your homemade vinegars to add some zing to everything from Green Chile and Cilantro Sambal to the white cream sauce enriching your pork chops. Oster also includes tips on making cleaning products from vinegar, so you can keep your kitchen naturally spotless when youre done cooking. Create your own delicious liqueurs. Pattie Vargas and Richard Gulling provide recipes for over 100 home-crafted cordials to suit every occasion, from cinnamon coffee liqueur to spiced blackberry brandy, and pineapple rum to black walnut liqueur. The simple instructions and insightful tips will have even beginners filling bottles with after-dinner joy. Learn to use your flavored liqueurs to spice up main dishes or add an extra pop of flavor to timeless desserts, and be sure to invite some friends over to enjoy a few sips. Create handmade mixtures of your favorite herbs and spices that add a delicious new zing to your favorite dishes. Maggie Oster presents more than 100 recipes compiled from herb shops and farms across America that showcase a wide variety of techniques for getting the most of out of your seasoning. Learn how to make Cajun, Thai, and Indian blends for seafood, game, poultry, and beef. Discover the delicious secrets of tasty homemade salad dressings and herb butters. Spice up your life and enjoy the flavor! A warm mug of strong tea was always grandmas solution to a bad day, and it turns out she may have been on to something! Discover the healing properties of herbal teas in this comprehensive guide to blending and brewing your own steamy concoctions. Kathleen Brown includes recipes for teas to care for the head, throat, gut, nervous system, lungs, bones, joints, and more. Whether you seek to soothe body, soul, or both, youll find the perfect brew.

this Guide To Blending And Brewing Healthful Herb Teas Includes Easy-to-make Recipes And Anecdotes From Several Renowned Herbalists. Readers Will Find Teas For The Head And Throat, Digestion, Nervous System, Lungs, Bones And Joints, Skin, And More.

Contains over 100 simple recipes for making salt-free, fat-free, herb and spice combinations that may be used in appetizers, vegetable dishes, main courses, snacks, teas, and desserts, and includes commentary and advice from dozens of herb professionals This informative resource offers both beginners and aspiring herbalists not only tea recipes to relieve illness and promote everyday wellness, but also instructions for gathering and brewing herbs, as well as some herbal tea history. Unique and nutritious ideas for creating tinctures, drinks, teas, and smoothies designed to invigorate and soothe. Easy-to-make recipes for energy tonics and disease-prevention formulas for the entire body. Provides instructions for making herbal vinegar and for adding herbal flavors to bottled vinegar, and shares recipes for vinegar-flavored condiments and dishes At the end of the day when I'm tired and dragging in the kitchen, I like to either steam or lightly saute vegetables. An infusion is the best technique for brewing teas when leaves, flowers, or crushed berries or seeds are used.