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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

The Colonial Kitchen Garden #history #virginiapioneersnet

Colonial Williamsburg VA Garden
"§ 73. A kitchen garden don't thrive better or faster in any part of the universe than there. They have all the culinary plants that grow in England, and in greater perfection than in England. Besides these, they have several roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers peculiar to themselves, most of which will neither increase nor grow to perfection in England. These they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roast and boiled, fresh and salt; such are the Indian cresses, red buds, sassafras flowers, cymlings, melons and potatoes..."
Source:  The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley


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