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Collection: Early modern recipe books

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Stephen
Stephenfiante: fiente - Wellcome Collection: Ex tribus [regnis] arcana (MS2315)Early modern recipe books
Stephen
Stephenseigner: saigner - Wellcome Collection: Ex tribus [regnis] arcana (MS2315)Early modern recipe books
Veena
VeenaThis is one torn page juxtaposed upon the page behind it. the top half is the page behind the torn page while the bottom that is just Dorothy Cartwright written over and over is the torn page on top. -Wellcome Collection: Brumwich, Anne (& others) (MS160)Early modern recipe books
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare LibraryM=handful: https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/John_Ward's_Latin#Measurements - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare LibraryLine 18: Lokram = https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/109621 - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare LibraryTolliander (line 73) = coriander? (Coriander -> coliander -> tolliander?: https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/36166)20Royal College of Physicians: The Lady Sedley, her Receipt book, 1686 (MS534)Early modern recipe books
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare LibraryCamell (line 73) and Camall (line 77) = chamomile? 20Royal College of Physicians: The Lady Sedley, her Receipt book, 1686 (MS534)Early modern recipe books
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library"Noddack" in line 61: https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/12683320Royal College of Physicians: The Lady Sedley, her Receipt book, 1686 (MS534)Early modern recipe books
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare LibraryCeres = ceruse10Royal College of Physicians: The Lady Sedley, her Receipt book, 1686 (MS534)Early modern recipe books
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare LibraryLine 48: OED has no examples of tun(n) being used as a verb, as in "Tunn it up"31Royal College of Physicians: The Lady Sedley, her Receipt book, 1686 (MS534)Early modern recipe books
blurooferika
blurooferikaNobody has transcribed the second half of page 246 or page 247 - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
Emily Wahl
Emily WahlCubbells (line 53) = Cubels: https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/4545525Royal College of Physicians: The Lady Sedley, her Receipt book, 1686 (MS534)Early modern recipe books
Emily Wahl
Emily WahlConstance Hall has a nearly identical recipe for the cordial water for dizziness in her recipe book: https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/5cln2u 25Royal College of Physicians: The Lady Sedley, her Receipt book, 1686 (MS534)Early modern recipe books
EK
EKLine 48 reads Clearecakes, not Cheazecakes. - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
EK
EKA couple of lines seem to be missing from this transcription. - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
EK
EKIn line 80, instead of "bitter", maybe "littel" should be read. - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
EK
EKFor the recipe for "the drying dyet drinke"cf. the back of the note sewn in a previous page, as the instructions on the back of the note mention this drink. - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
EK
EKTranscription of 188v seems to be missing. - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
EK
EKThe back of the note sewn into the page seems to contain some medical informations. - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
EK
EKOn 162r, the title should be "To Boyle & Sowce Prawne"; and in the text, too, "Brawne" not "Prawne". - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
EK
EKThe transcription of fol. 158v seems to be missing. On fol. 159r, the title should be "To make Jelly and manjor blanco together," I believe. - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
EK
EKOn 6 March 2021, I found this page without a transcription, so I transcribed it. In line 31, the strange symbol looking like "ti" may be a symbol for pound? - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
EK
EKI believe that the title of the last recipe on the page should be "To make a Spanish Biske" (as the list of ingredients reveals, it is not a sort of cake or biscuit, but rather like an olla podrida). - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
EK
EKIn Line 7, the word Cold is written over a couple of letters starting with the letter f. (EK) - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
KitB
KitBI suspect ou. (line 17) is abbreviation for ounces18Royal College of Physicians: The Lady Sedley, her Receipt book, 1686 (MS534)Early modern recipe books
christineegriff
christineegriffUnsure if the oz. should be expanded. There are dram/ounce symbols present in the abbreviations.28Royal College of Physicians: The Lady Sedley, her Receipt book, 1686 (MS534)Early modern recipe books
SHoffelt
SHoffeltFellonwort usually spelled felonwort is bittersweet nightshade Solanum sulcamara. SRH - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
msimon
msimon26 ounce - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
msimon
msimon25 ounce - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
msimon
msimon18 4 ounces - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
msimon
msimon15 10 ounces - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
maedchenimmond
maedchenimmondLine 35: 'vnnilla' may be a mis-copying of 'uvula'.13Royal College of Physicians: The Lady Sedley, her Receipt book, 1686 (MS534)Early modern recipe books
HillaryNunn
HillaryNunn℥ = ounce ʒ = dram, drachm ℈ = scruple27Royal College of Physicians: The Lady Sedley, her Receipt book, 1686 (MS534)Early modern recipe books
kconnor
kconnorHow should we deal with recipes that have been crossed out? Do we put a deletion tag on the whole recipe? - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
doctorhistory67
doctorhistory67l.50 'varges' is verjuice. - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
doctorhistory67
doctorhistory67in line 30 of p. 233 the capital L could be serving as an opening bracket, i.e. [castoreum is beaver stone] line 37: sweet diamoschum and diambra are two cordial powders, recipes for which are provided in the English transl. of Jean Renou, The Me... - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
kelleysw20
kelleysw20I think that the soft break between lines 27 and 28 is an older spelling of agrimony, but I am not positive. - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
kelleysw20
kelleysw20I was not sure whether to make line number 17 a heading, but it wasn't separate like the other headings I've seen, it was more part of the paragraph. - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
aewoll23
aewoll23I am unfamiliar with the measurement symbol and system on the bottom of the page! - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
kelleysw20
kelleysw20I am unsure whether it should be March mallows or Marsh mallows. Elsewhere I have seen that circumflex c, but an s would make more sense. - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
kelleysw20
kelleysw20I asked what the Rp at the beginning of the recipes might be and was told it could be shorthand for "take". - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
Sara Carlstead Brumfield
Sara Carlstead BrumfieldParenthesis on line 44-45!! - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
Sara Carlstead Brumfield
Sara Carlstead BrumfieldLine 36 "cure" -- I don't think that's right, but I can't figure out what it could be. - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
kelseybobelsey
kelseybobelsey(adding transcription here in event that the page has not saved properly) <marginalia>36</marginalia> then will there come a Second water which will not be so good as the first The virtues of this water be these, it Comforteth the Spirits vit...21Royal College of Physicians: The Lady Sedley, her Receipt book, 1686 (MS534)Early modern recipe books
KatherineHunt
KatherineHuntHi! I've done the verso but have to sign off now--I'm leaving the recto for the next transcriber. Enjoy! - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
Emily Wahl
Emily Wahlmirrah on line 31 = myrrh? - Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)Early modern recipe books
HillaryNunn
HillaryNunnThis page was originally transcribed by Ian Faith as part of an EMROC transcription project in 2013 at The University of Akron. - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
HillaryNunn
HillaryNunnThis page was originally transcribed by Pamela Kellman as part of an EMROC transcription project in 2013 at The University of Akron. - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
HillaryNunn
HillaryNunnThis page was originally transcribed by Pamela Kellman as part of an EMROC transcription project in 2013 at The University of Akron. - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
HillaryNunn
HillaryNunnThis page was originally transcribed by Pamela Kellman as part of an EMROC transcription project in 2013 at The University of Akron. - MS 7113: Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680)Early modern recipe books
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