Seventeenth-Century English Recipe Books: Cooking, Physic and Chirurgery in the Works of W.M. and Queen Henrietta Maria, and of Mary Tillinghast: Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part Three, Volume 4Elizabeth Spiller Recipe books are a key part of food history; they register the ideals and practices of domestic work, physical health and sustenance and they are at the heart of material culture as it was experienced by early modern Englishwomen. In a world in which daily sustenance and physical health were primarily women's responsibilities, women were central to these texts that record what was both a traditional art and new science. The texts reprinted in these two volumes allow readers to reconstruct the history of recipes, both medical and culinary, from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century, and situate that history within the larger scientific and intellectual practices of the period. |
Contents
Aletheia Talbot Howard Countess of Arundel probable author | |
Preface by the General Editors | |
Walter? Montagu? and Queen Henrietta Maria | |
Mary Tillinghast | |
Common terms and phrases
Agrimony Almond Milk Ambergreese Aniseeds anoynt Apricocks Aqua vitæ beat Betony Borage bruised candy Cherries CHOICE MANUAL Cinamon clean close cloth Cloves cold Countess Countess of Arundel Countess of Kent dish distil drams early modern Egge excellent fair water Fennel fire flowers four ounces Galenic gallons glass half a pinte half a pound half an ounce hearbs ibid Johns Wort juyce keep Lady let it boyl let it stand let them boyl let them stand Limbeck Limons liquor Liquorish Mace Marjoram Milk morning fasting Mortar NATURA EXENTERATA Nutmegs Oranges ounces Oven Oyl Olive Oyntment Paracelsian peece Pippins plaister Plums pottle pound of Sugar powder preserve put thereto quantity quart quarter QUEENS CLOSET Receipt recipe books red Rose water Rhume roots Rose water Rosemary secrets Secretum Secretorum seed sliced spoonfuls stir Stomach stone strain Succory Sugar sweet syrup therewith thick warm white Wine