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Collection: Early modern recipe books

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Julia
JuliaSupplementary papers.-Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)Early modern recipe books
Julia
JuliaSupplementary loose leaf recipe included at the end of the manuscript.-Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)Early modern recipe books
Julia
JuliaSupplementary loose leaf recipe included at the end of the manuscript.-Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)Early modern recipe books
Julia
JuliaSupplementary loose leaf recipe included at the end of the manuscript.-Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)Early modern recipe books
Julia
JuliaSupplementary loose leaf recipe included at the end of the manuscript.-Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)Early modern recipe books
Julia
JuliaSupplementary loose leaf recipe included at the end of the manuscript.-Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)Early modern recipe books
Katy Mair
Katy MairSupplementary loose leaf recipe included at the end of the manuscript.-Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)Early modern recipe books
Bethany Slater
Bethany SlaterSupplementary loose leaf recipe included at the end of the manuscript.-Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)Early modern recipe books
Julia
JuliaSupplementary loose leaf recipe included at the end of the manuscript-Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)Early modern recipe books
Bethany Slater
Bethany SlaterHow is best to represent the ink splodge over 'lemon' in the recipe for a tansey?-Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)Early modern recipe books
Julia
Juliaon line 24 the word for 'sraw' appears to have an earlier word written beneath it and the s seems to have an ink splodge which could have been the author's fingerprint - how do you indicate this in transcription conventions? -Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)Early modern recipe books
christina.jameson
christina.jamesonLines 6-10 are an overlay on the page-Wellcome Collection: Coley Family (MS1711 )Early modern recipe books
christina.jameson
christina.jamesonThe Red or White Currant Mince page is overlaid onto the original page. Lines 1-5 and 28-30 belong to the underlying page.-Wellcome Collection: Coley Family (MS1711 )Early modern recipe books
Stephen
Stephenlaetificans Almansoris: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Aphrodisiacus_sive_de_Lue_venerea_in_dua/4mDiwWITZXQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=laetificans+almansoris&pg=PA160&printsec=frontcover-Wellcome Collection: Brumwich, Anne (& others) (MS160)Early modern recipe books
MalcolmJWatkins
MalcolmJWatkinsFirst line should be "Till you see your cherries come to theire [psert]" First word of line 6 is "begins" Lines 7 & 8 should read "one by one in yo[ur] pott or glasse, reserving halfe of Sirrop [not "the Sirrop"] cold to put on them when" In l...page 92London Metropolitan Archives: Recipe Book (CLC/270/MS00558) Early modern recipe books
timunderhill
timunderhillI have taken the liberty of inserting a working transcription for this page (leaning more to the 'A' version of things in my document, but not inappropriately modernizing or punctuating) - this has been with the aim of not obscuring (possible) ort...-Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)Early modern recipe books
timunderhill
timunderhillSubsequent to my first transcription, I am fairly sure now the recipe heading must be "To make puff pastries" TU 5 Nov. -Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)Early modern recipe books
Smoffitt
SmoffittWe think that "Grebe House" is actually Glebe House-Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenSmelt is a small fish that is found around some parts of the UK and Ireland-Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)Early modern recipe books
HillaryNunn
HillaryNunnNotes from Shorthand Expert Tim Underhill: 5. Pages 17-18 To collar a pig A To collar a pig Cut him down the back and bone him. Let him lie in vinegar and salt to harden[?], then season him with nutmeg, pepper, salt, and sweet herbs, cloves, ...-Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)Early modern recipe books
HillaryNunn
HillaryNunnNotes from Shorthand Expert Tim Underhill on Page 17 To make puff paste rise[?] A To make puff paste rise[?] Take the juice of a china-orange with the white of an egg and a little white sugar, and beat it together. Put a spoonful of it in your...-Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)Early modern recipe books
HillaryNunn
HillaryNunnTim Underhill's interpretation of the shorthand at the page's base: This was probably meant as a couplet and a separate stanza. Alternatively, it might have been conceived as a continuous piece. It has proved the hardest section of the shorthan...-Wellcome Collection: Mary Hawker's recipe book (MS9304)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline Buttenelect., electuarium -i = electuary; a "medicinal conserve or paste, consisting of a powder or other ingredient mixed with honey, preserve, or syrup of some kind" (OED) - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline Buttenstoechas = stoechad., stoechas -adis = French lavender, Lavandula stoechas - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline Buttenstorax calamitoe = styrac. calamit., styrax -acis calamita = storax, gum-resin from Styrax officinalis - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenCaranna = a hard, brittle, resinous gum, obtained from the West Indian tree Bursera acuminata and the South American trees Protium carana, P. altissimum, and Pachylobus hexandrus. It has an aromatic flavor, and was used in pre-modern medicine - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenOlibanum = Frankincense - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenDragance = dragonwort, tragacanth, also Artemisia dracunculus, also known as tarragon, an edible aromatic herb in the daisy family, Asteraceae. - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenMadder = Rubia tinctorum, the rose madder or common madder or dyer's madder, is a herbaceous perennial plant species belonging to the family Rubiaceae - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenBolearmoniack = bol. armen., bolus -i Armeniae = Armenian bole, bole armoniac; an argillaceous earth - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenCeterrach = ceterach (spleenwort or rustyback fern, Asplenium ceterach) - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline ButtenAllegant derived from 'Alicant', a wine produced near the Alicante region in Spain - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
Caroline Butten
Caroline Butten&r = shorthand for 'another' - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
Stephen
Stephenhttps://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/A_cyclop%C3%A6dia_of_practical_receipts_and/rUMCAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=lesser+cold+seeds&pg=RA2-PA1535&printsec=frontcover-Wellcome Collection: Brumwich, Anne (& others) (MS160)Early modern recipe books
kennamchildress
kennamchildressContinuation of Anikka and Kenna's recipe!page 92London Metropolitan Archives: Recipe Book (CLC/270/MS00558) Early modern recipe books
ETatom
ETatomAll I added was a heading tag -Wellcome Collection: English culinary and medical recipe book, 18th century (MS8468)Early modern recipe books
McKaleIreland
McKaleIrelandThis page appears to be in French?-Wellcome Collection: English culinary and medical recipe book, 18th century (MS8468)Early modern recipe books
Stephen
StephenSir Theodore Myron: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Court_of_the_Gentiles_Etc/xAe6iCNLbm8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=sir+theodore+myron&pg=PA351&printsec=frontcover-Wellcome Collection: Brumwich, Anne (& others) (MS160)Early modern recipe books
Stephen
Stephenfatuda - perhaps asafoetida?-Wellcome Collection: Brumwich, Anne (& others) (MS160)Early modern recipe books
kennamchildress
kennamchildressThis is the page Kenna and Anikka will be working on for the project!page 91London Metropolitan Archives: Recipe Book (CLC/270/MS00558) Early modern recipe books
KitB
KitBThere are two words with unclear characters as a result of a fold in the paper. It is obvious what the words are, but I have left it as ?? to transcribe what I can actually see!-Wellcome Collection: English culinary and medical recipe book, 18th century (MS8468)Early modern recipe books
Stephen
Stephenlaske: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_General_Practise_of_Physicke_Transla/nLdjAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=laske&pg=PA798&printsec=frontcover bulloes = bullace?-Wellcome Collection: Brumwich, Anne (& others) (MS160)Early modern recipe books
Stephen
Stephenhttps://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Early_English_Text_Society/UwdON2HEtsMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=jordan+almonds&pg=PR11&printsec=frontcover-Wellcome Collection: Brumwich, Anne (& others) (MS160)Early modern recipe books
Stephen
Stephenhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tundish-Wellcome Collection: Brumwich, Anne (& others) (MS160)Early modern recipe books
Stephen
StephenThere's a similar recipe for Flos unguentorum here: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Sk809ibqhvkC&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=flos+unguentorum&source=bl&ots=qUIxvXJLda&sig=ACfU3U0BkjWspOx75JsXGvBIGi3riwGObg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwisk9-Bu4_6AhWYM8AKHfH6D...-Wellcome Collection: Brumwich, Anne (& others) (MS160)Early modern recipe books
Stephen
Stephenl.60 'a sad tany' - a dark tawny?-Wellcome Collection: Brumwich, Anne (& others) (MS160)Early modern recipe books
Stephen
StephenNearue oyle: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Cauelarice_or_the_English_Horseman_Conta/BHFroigDtMsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=nearue+oyle&pg=PA61&printsec=frontcover-Wellcome Collection: Brumwich, Anne (& others) (MS160)Early modern recipe books
Stephen
Stephenhttps://www.encyclo.co.uk/meaning-of-Sal_Prunella-Wellcome Collection: Brumwich, Anne (& others) (MS160)Early modern recipe books
Stephen
Stephenl.74 'tansey' may be what the writer intended, but the fourth letter is definitely a 't'-Wellcome Collection: Brumwich, Anne (& others) (MS160)Early modern recipe books
Stephen
Stephenl. 27 Bolearmeniack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_bole-Wellcome Collection: Brumwich, Anne (& others) (MS160)Early modern recipe books
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