Early modern recipe books

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Early modern recipe books
This project, a collaboration between the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC and the Wellcome Collection in London, contains digitized manuscript recipe books from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. It is funded by a grant to the Folger from the University of Sheffield as part of the AHRC-funded US-UK Food Digital Scholarship Network. The goal of the project is to provide a freely available platform for repositories to make their early modern manuscript recipe books available for crowdsourced transcription.
Wellcome Collection: Miller, Mrs. Mary (MS.3547)

Wellcome Collection: Miller, Mrs. Mary (MS.3547)

Her Booke of Receipts. A collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical and household receipts. There are some additions by later 17th and early 18th cent. hands. On the verso of the first leaf is an inscription 'Mrs. Mary Criche', apparently written by the same hand as that of the...

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85 pages: 0% complete (1% transcribed, 1% needs review)
Wellcome Collection: Receipt-Book, 17th-18th century (MS.4054)

Wellcome Collection: Receipt-Book, 17th-18th century (MS.4054)

Collection of receipts for cordials, preserves, cookery and medicines. By several hands. Contents: Receits for preserving (pp. 1-61); stilling (pp. 71-92); [cosmetics (etc.)] (pp. 109-115); surgery and phisick (pp. 120-176); to make wine and other liquors (pp. 180-193); for syrups (pp....

161 pages: 46% complete (100% transcribed, 53% needs review)
Wellcome Collection: Saint John, Johanna (MS4338)

Wellcome Collection: Saint John, Johanna (MS4338)

Johanna St. John Her Booke. The date 1680 is found on Leaf A 3 and F 7: there are a few additions by late 17th century hands.

207 pages: 28% complete (92% transcribed, 63% needs review)
Wellcome Collection: The Regiment of Healthe (MS674)

Wellcome Collection: The Regiment of Healthe (MS674)

With separate sections on medical astrology, temperaments, plague, an antidotary, surgical remedies, and an unfinished herbal. With a number of medical receipts, etc., by different and later hands. pp.7-12: blank. p.13: Medical astrology, temperatments, etc. Begins: "Almightie God ffather...

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290 pages: 3% complete (14% transcribed, 10% needs review)
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