Drink the harvest :

Title:

Drink the harvest : making and preserving juices, wines, meads, teas, and ciders / Nan K. Chase, DeNeice C. Guest ; photography by Johnny Autry.

Personal Author:

Chase, Nan K., 1954-

Call Number:

641.875 C4876

ISBN:

9781612121598

Physical Description:

223 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

From garden to kitchen. Finding beverages in your garden ; Growing a beverage garden ; Harvesting & preparation -- Juices & fermented beverages. Creating fruit & vegetable drinks ; Creating wines, means & specialty drinks -- Syrups & teas. Creating garden syrups ; Creating garden teas.

Summary:

Skip the sugary commercial drinks and make fresh, delicious beverages in your own kitchen-- from your own garden, or from farmers' market finds. These recipes and techniques will introduce you to a whole new world of garden goodness.

Subject Term:

Fruit juices.

Vegetable juices.

Wine and wine making.

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North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, [2014]

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Preserving the harvest doesn't have to stop with jam and pickles. Many fruits, vegetables, and herbs can be made into delicious beverages to enjoy fresh or preserve for later. Drink the Harvest presents simple recipes accompanied by mouthwatering photographs for a variety of teas, syrups, ciders, wines, and kombuchas. DeNeice C. Guest and Nan K. Chase also provide advice for harvesting ingredients for maximum flavor and even creating your own backyard beverage garden. Pour a refreshing glass of Passionflower-Lemon Balm Wine and drink in the possibilities.

Author Notes

Nan K. Chase is the co-author of Drink the Harvest. A member of the Garden Writers Association and of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Nan has been a freelance journalist for 35 years. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Fine Gardening, Old House Journal, American Bungalow, Southern Living, and many other publications. She is a frequent lecturer for garden organizations, writers groups, and business groups, and enjoys doing radio, video, and book festival appearances. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

DeNeice C. Guest, co-author of Drink the Harvest , has been studying wild herbs and gardening for over 30 years, and has been making and brewing herbal-based tonics, beverages and medicines for the last decade. She has amassed a collection of some 100 original, kitchen-tested recipes. Guest is a charter member of the Asheville E-Z Gardeners, a garden club in Asheville, North Carolina, founded in 2010, and she created the club's signature wine, E-Z Gardeners Passionflower-Lemon Balm Wine.

Introduction	p. 1
part 1 from garden to kitchen
1 Finding Beverages in Your Garden	p. 6
The Joys of Juice (and Other Drinks)	p. 6
Where's the Juke?	p. 7
You Have the Skills	p. 9
Your Garden's Already Perfect	p. 11
2 Growing a Beverage Garden	p. 13
Meet Our favorite Planes	p. 16
Pruning for Production	p. 26
3 Harvesting & Preparation	p. 29
Reaping What You've Sown	p. 30
Is It Ripe Yet?	p. 31
Equipment Keeping It Simple	p. 34
Clear the Decks!	p. 44
part 2 juices & fermented beverages
Creating Fruit & Vegetable Drinks	p. 49
Juice or Cider	p. 51
How to Make Juke	p. 52
Refrigeration and Freezing	p. 60
How to Can	p. 62
Step by-Step Canning	p. 64
recipes Berry Juke	p. 72
Strawberry Juice	p. 74
Peach Juice	p. 76
Big Wow Grape Cider	p. 78
Crab Apple Juice	p. 80
Apple Juice	p. 83
Apple family Cider	p. 85
Peerless Pear Cider	p. 86
Happy Time Pear Juice	p. 88
Prickly Pear Cactus Juice	p. 90
Tomato Juice	p. 92
Senational-7 Vegetable Drink	p. 94
DeNelce's Super-Heated Bloody Mary Mixer	p. 96
5 Creating Wines, Meads & Specialty Drinks	p. 99
A Garden Full of Wine	p. 101
The Hardest Part It Patience	p. 102
How Fermentation Works	p. 104
Different Kinds of Fermented Drinks	p. 106
Managing the Must	p. 107
How to Make Wine	p. 112
Racking	p. 120
Time to Bottle	p. 124
recipes Easy Garden Grape Wine	p. 132
All-Around Herb Wine	p. 134
Dandelion Wine	p. 136
Garden Mint Wine	p. 136
Parsley Wine	p. 140
Passionflower-Lemon Balm Wine	p. 142
Heirloom Potato Wine	p. 144
Prickly Pear Cactus Wine	p. 146
Bitchin' Birch Wine	p. 146
Basic Mead	p. 150
Red, White, and Blueberry Mead	p. 152
Mixed Berry Mead	p. 154
Old Crabby Mead	p. 156
Spiced Apple Mead	p. 156
Very Perry Holiday Mead	p. 160
Crab Apple Rice Wine	p. 162
Nan's Crab Apple Super-Cider	p. 164
Peerless Perry	p. 166
Luscious Limoncello	p. 168
part 3 syrups & teas
6 Creating Garden Syrups	p. 173
The Beauty of Homemade Syrups	p. 174
Just Add Sugar and Boil!	p. 176
recipes Fruit Juice Syrup	p. 182
Mint Syrup	p. 183
Watermelon-Mint Syrup	p. 184
Concentrated Watermelon Syrup	p. 186
Peach-Rosemary Syrup	p. 187
Blueberry-Basil Syrup	p. 188
Spiced Ginger-Bay Syrup	p. 190
One World Apple Spice Syrup	p. 192
Tart Cherry Syrup	p. 193
Prickly Pear Cactus Syrup	p. 194
7 Creating Garden Teas	p. 197
Teas for Two or More	p. 198
Making Garden Teas	p. 200
Plants for Making Tea	p. 204
recipes Citrus Peel Tea	p. 206
Rose Hip Tea	p. 210
Making Kombucha	p. 211
Glossary	p. 216
Metric Conversion Chart	p. 217
Resources	p. 218
Index	p. 220

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