Our Wartime Kitchen Garden

“Our Wartime Kitchen Garden” is a 1917 guide to kitchen gardening and cooking on a budget. Written during World War II, it is aims to provide simple instructions and fantastic money-saving tips for surviving during food shortages and rationing. Cover-to-cover with ingenious ideas, this vintage cookbook will appeal to modern readers with an interest in saving money or being more self-sufficient when it comes to food preparation. Contents include: “Vegetables and Animal Diet”, “Asparagus”, “Culinary Preparation”, “Beans”, “ Culinary Preparation”, “Brassica”, “Culinary Preparation”, “Beetroot”, “Culinary Preparation”, “Carrot”, “Culinary Preparation”, “Celery”, “Culinary Preparation”, “Watercress”, “Culinary Preparation”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on growing vegetables at home.