Herbcrafts

This volume offers a collection of over 40 craft projects using fresh and dried herbs to create pretty aromatic gifts, decorations for the home and mouth-watering recipes to cook. The author explores the full decorative potential of herbs around the home and also provides gift ideas.

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This volume offers a collection of over 40 craft projects using fresh and dried herbs to create pretty aromatic gifts, decorations for the home and mouth-watering recipes to cook. Author Tessa Evelegh, explores the full decorative potential of herbs around the home and also provides gift ideas including potpourri, scented flower oils, lavender sachets, and beautifully scented herbal creams and moisturizers for the bathroom. Herbs are also one of the great culinary delights of the kitchen garden and revealed here are delicious recipes for tasty herbal breads, herb oils and vinegars, lavender sugar and mint jellies to name but a few. With an introduction on the history and folklore of herbs, a whole chapter on how to cultivate, nurture and harvest herbs, and a practical herb directory that details the cultivation requirements, culinary and medicinal uses of over 50 herbs, this book is not merely a celebration of herbs but a wealth of information and detail.