The Recipes Project now has a Facebook page for lovers of old recipes! Come see us there, as Laura Mitchell magics up bits and bobs from around the interwebs. Recipes… in the news! Stories about recipes… from other blogs! And sometimes pictures, too! If you’re on Facebook, please give us a like and join our … Continue reading A New Direction for The Recipes Project→
Whilst perusing some seventeenth century recipes for medicines I stumbled across a few curious ingredients. Granted, many of the ingredients found in Johanna St. John’s recipe book – aside from now common herbs and spices like cinnamon or saffron – might look odd to the modern eye. Some of the ingredients that struck me were … Continue reading The Early Modern Matter of Fecal Medicines→
What exactly is a ‘recipe collection’? The most obvious answer is something like the example shown below, a formal ‘receptaria’ book of medical receipts and remedies. In the early modern period, and across Europe, these types of collections were fairly common, and especially in wealthier households. These were often carefully constructed documents, containing indices and … Continue reading What is a ‘remedy collection’?: Recording Medical Information in the Seventeenth Century→