Beef Salad Cut some cold roast beef into thin slices and sprinkle each slice with a little salt and pepper. Make into rolls about two inches long, and lay a little scraped horseradish on the top of each roll. Mix some cold French beans or peas with cold carrots and new potatoes that have been … Read more
Beef Pie Mince meat and put in a pie-dish, chop some parsley and thyme, grate a little nutmeg over it, and mix well together. Add water or stock enough to make it very moist, pepper and salt to taste, and fill dish with mashed potatoes. Bake in oven until brown. Ghicken-and-Ham Pie Season well some … Read more
POTATOES (1) Obtain your seed potatoes in late winter and place them rose end (that is the end with most of the shoots or ‘eyes’) uppermost in seed trays, or empty egg cartons, which should then be placed in a cool, airy, light (but not sunny) spot such as a shed or garage so that … Read more
Potatoes may be regarded as in a class by themselves. It should be remarked here that it does not pay most gardeners to cultivate main crop potatoes. They are so cheaply raised in fields, where machinery is used, that it is wiser for the home gardener to grow a little extra of the more valuable … Read more
Root vegetables do well in fertile garden soil but there should be no hard band of gravel or clay beneath the top spit nor should the top soil contain a high percentage of large stones. Often some deep digging is necessary to prepare a garden soil initially for first-class root vegetables. No manure or garden … Read more
You might not always wish to grow your own potatoes, although none you buy will taste like the freshly dug tubers of your own, but I would advise you to grow a crop to clean your land if you are making a new vegetable garden. All of the many potato varieties fall into three different … Read more