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Date
[2017]
Location
Toronto
Ontario
Ontario
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xiv, 374 pages
Language
English
Size
23 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 352371
Folger call number: TX705 .P74 2017 copy 2 Mss. Cur
Folger holdings ID: 501215
Folger call number: TX705 .P74 2017 copy 1
Folger holdings ID: 500997
Folger call number: TX705 .P74 2017 copy 2 Mss. Cur
Folger holdings ID: 501215
Folger call number: TX705 .P74 2017 copy 1
Folger holdings ID: 500997
Summary
"Apricot wine and stewed calf's head, melancholy medicine and "ointment of roses." Welcome to the cookbook Shakespeare would have recognized. Preserving on Paper is a critical edition of three seventeenth-century receipt books handwritten manuals that included a combination of culinary recipes, medical remedies, and household tips which documented the work of women at home. Kristine Kowalchuk argues that receipt books served as a form of folk writing, where knowledge was shared and passed between generations. These texts played an important role in the history of women's writing and literacy and contributed greatly to issues of authorship, authority, and book history. Kowalchuk's revelatory interdisciplinary study offers unique insights into early modern women's writings and the original sharing economy."--
Notes
General notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
MS V.a.430 : Receipt book attributed to Mary Granville and Anne Granville D'Ewes -- MS V.a.20 : Receipt book attributed to Constance Hall -- MS V.a.450 : Cookery and medical receipt book attributed to Lettice Pudsey
Also known as
Extended title: Preserving on paper : seventeenth-century Englishwomen's receipt books / edited by Kristine Kowalchuk
Subjects
Related names
editor: Kowalchuk, Kristine, 1974-