‘I Have Known’: Copying Personal Accounts in Early Modern Receipt Books
By Margaret Maurer Reading British Library Sloane MS 559, a seventeenth-century receipt book, I came upon a recipe with the following efficacy statement: “I have knowne a woman heale many blind people...
View ArticleTo break or not to break (part 1): Reading Van Beverwijck´s Steen-stuck
By Saskia Klerk, with Sietske Fransen Johan van Beverwijck (1594-1647), who we introduced in our first post, was one of the most prominent medical authors of the Dutch seventeenth century. His...
View ArticleA medicine for the Archduchess of Innsbruck
By Sietske Fransen, with Saskia Klerk. Two months ago Saskia Klerk discussed a recipe for the breaking of a bladder stone. It seems that the author of manuscript BPL3603 included this recipe into his...
View Article‘A Curious Book’: The Many Functions of Martha Hodges’ Manuscript Recipe Book
By Kate Owen On the inside cover of Martha Hodges’ recipe book (17-th-18th century), written in pencil, is a note that calls the manuscript ‘a curious book’. Although there is no further explanation...
View ArticleConstructing authentic student textual authority: Teach a text you don’t know
By Christina Riehman-Murphy, Marissa Nicosia, and Heather Froehlich Could a small recipe transcription project make space for student contributions to broader public knowledge? How could we facilitate...
View ArticleTeaching Recipes as Pattern Recognition
By Rob Wakeman, Mount Saint Mary College In the throes of research, we often compile so much information we don’t know what to do with it. It’s not our fault, really. Working with recipe books takes us...
View ArticleWhat We’re Reading This Fall
By Jess Clark The abundance of fantastic historical writing—from insightful social media and blog posts to traditional academic monographs to op eds—means that most of us aren’t lacking interesting...
View ArticleOn Paratext, Cookbooks, and No Useless Mouth
By Rachel Herrmann Before I entered the final stages of revising my first book, No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution, I had tried for reasons of sanity to...
View ArticleFrom the Hearth to the Gas Stove: A Study in Apricot Marmalade
By Marissa Nicosia The early modern hearth and the modern gas stove are rather different technologies for controlling heat. Again and again in my recipe recreation work for Cooking in the Archives, I...
View ArticleWhat is your favourite recipe? Reflections on Day 2
Post by Laurence Totelin; Storify by Tallulah Maait Pepperell The second day of our Virtual Conversation ‘What is a recipe?’ has been very busy indeed, with contributions on Instagram and Twitter. Some...
View ArticleThe Heroine of the Cookbook Story
By Rachel Rich Every cookbook tells a story about itself, and the imagined reader it addresses is the heroine of that story. In the nineteenth century, following recipes meant embarking on a quest for...
View ArticleTo break or not to break (Part 2): From Cairo to Dordrecht
By Saskia Klerk, with Sietske Fransen In the eleventh chapter of his Steen-Stuck (Treatise on the Stone, 1637), Johan van Beverwijck related a story of an encounter in Dordrecht, the Dutch city where...
View ArticleRecipes Round-up: Research Presented at Scientiae and SSHM 2016
by Katherine Allen In early July I attended two conferences: Scientiae (on early modern science), and the Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) conference. Both had an impressive range of...
View ArticleTo break or not to break: Reading Van Beverwijck´s Steen-stuck (part 1)
By Saskia Klerk, with Sietske Fransen Johan van Beverwijck (1594-1647), who we introduced in our first post, was one of the most prominent medical authors of the Dutch seventeenth century. His...
View ArticleA medicine for the Archduchess of Innsbruck
By Sietske Fransen, with Saskia Klerk. Two months ago Saskia Klerk discussed a recipe for the breaking of a bladder stone. It seems that the author of manuscript BPL3603 included this recipe into his...
View ArticleOn Close Reading and Teamwork
Say the word ‘crowdsourcing’ and people automatically think of large-scale projects. Talk about ‘digital humanities’ and we think mining large sources of data. The online world is a vast and busy...
View ArticleA Recipe for a Gothic Novel
By Katherine Bowers “Terrorist Novel Writing,” an anonymous essay that appeared in The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 (Volume 1), closes with the following recipe for creating a gothic novel in...
View ArticleVan Helmont´s Recipes
By Saskia Klerk, with Sietske Fransen Five years ago the Special collections of the University Library Leiden acquired the book and manuscript collection from the estate of J.M.H. van de Sande (d....
View ArticleWhat Recipes Can Teach Us About Reading
By Jennifer Munroe When I teach recipes, I often focus on what they might tell us about women’s domestic work, questions of amateur versus professional labor, and the historical context of early modern...
View ArticleExploring CPP 10a214: The Place of Devotion
By Rebecca Laroche with Hillary Nunn Since we last posted in 2014, Hillary Nunn and I have been able to meet in Philadelphia and look at the College of Physicians manuscript together. This was an...
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