‘Crost by mistake’: Scribbling in early modern recipe books
By Elaine Leong As anyone familiar with early modern recipe collections well knows, recipe compilers liked to cross things out. One compiler, Lady Anne Fanshawe, particularly springs to mind. Her notebook is filled with pages of recipes which she has crossed out with a large ‘X’. Take a look at the following page from her … Continue reading ‘Crost by mistake’: Scribbling in early modern recipe books