Preserving on paper : seventeenth-century Englishwomen's receipt books / edited by Kristine Kowalchuk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kowalchuk, Kristine, 1974- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Studies in book and print culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain.

Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.

Cooking, English.

Formulas, recipes, etc--Early works to 1800.

Formulas, recipes, etc.

Home economics--Early works to 1800.

Home economics.

English literature--Women authors.

English literature.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Women and literature.

English literature--Early modern.

Genre:

Early works.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 374 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

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."-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-370) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781487500061

1487500068

9781487520038

1487520034

OCLC:

961155386