The Campaign for Domestic Happiness by Isabella Beeton

The Campaign for Domestic Happiness by Isabella Beeton

Author:Isabella Beeton [Beeton, Isabella]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780141965895
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2011-04-06T16:00:00+00:00


Scarcity of Salads in England

Three centuries ago, very few vegetables were cultivated in England, and an author writing of the period of Henry VIII’s reign, tells us that neither salad, nor carrots, nor cabbages, nor radishes, nor any other comestibles of a like nature, were grown in any part of the kingdom: they came from Holland and Flanders. We further learn, that Queen Catharine herself, with all her royalty, could not procure a salad of English growth for her dinner. The king was obliged to mend this sad state of affairs, and send to Holland for a gardener in order to cultivate those pot-herbs, in the growth of which England is now, perhaps, not behind any other country in Europe.



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