‘The Art of Distillation’: Alchemy in Eighteenth-Century Recipe Books
By Katherine Allen Two aspects of eighteenth-century recipe books that interest me are the use of distillation in domestic medicine and the relationship between print and manuscript sources of medical and scientific knowledge. Rebecca Tallamy’s recipe book beautifully illustrates the union of both these aspects as she recorded her recipes in a 1691 edition of … Continue reading ‘The Art of Distillation’: Alchemy in Eighteenth-Century Recipe Books