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Preserving on Paper : Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen's Receipt Books /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kowalchuk, Kristine, 1974- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Historical Introduction; Folk Culture, Food, and the Renaissance; The Seventeenth-Century English Housewife: Her Work, Knowledge, and Authority; Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen's Literacy and Writing; Receipt Books; Looking Back, Looking Forward: Scholarship on Receipt Books and a New Consideration of Cookbooks; Reading Receipt Books in the Kitchen; Note on the Text; Three seventeenth-century receipt books; MS V.a.430: Receipt Book attributed to Mary Granville and Anne Granville D'Ewes.
  • MS V.a.20: Receipt Book attributed to Constance HallMS V.a.450: Cookery and Medical Receipt Book attributed to Lettice Pudsey; Glossary of Culinary, Medical, and Household Terms; Works Cited; Index.