Recipes

From the kitchen, the cupboard, and the workbench

Food with herbs in it. Herbal drinks with no alcohol in them. Oils, salves and syrups made the old way. Plants put to work around the house.

Kitchen

Food made with herbs, flowers and botanical things — ordinary cooking, made a little more alive.

KitchenAutumn

Slow-simmered peel for the winter jar — for baking, for chocolate, for eating straight from the rack.

KitchenAutumn

Baked apples and rose hips cooked down and dried slowly into a chewy fruit paste — an old Russian sweet, made at home.

Herbal drinks with no alcohol in them: lemonades, tea blends, warm spiced cups for cold evenings.

Herbal CupboardAutumn

A warm, spiced cup in the spirit of mulled wine — with rose hips and apple, and no wine at all.

Herbal CupboardSummer

A cold, pale-gold lemonade made from linden blossom and lemon balm — the taste of an early summer evening.

Herbal CupboardWinter

Linden, rose hip, lemon balm and orange peel — a jar of summer's flowers for the darkest evenings.

Oils, salves, balms and syrups, made the slow traditional way for the body and the family.

ApothecaryAutumn

Dark, spiced, and kept in the fridge for winter — the most traditional jar in the cupboard.

ApothecarySummer

Summer flowers steeped in oil on the windowsill, then set with beeswax into a simple salve for hands and skin.

Plants put to work around the house: cleaning, scenting, and marking the seasons indoors.

Herbal HomeWinter

A jar of forest for the kitchen counters — a simple household cleaning vinegar steeped with pine and citrus.