Digital Recipe Books Project

Collection description

Description
  • This is the blog for Dr. Lisa Smith's 'Digital Recipe Book Project' module at the University of Essex. The contributors are working together, alongisde the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective, to transcribe, study and contextualise old recipe books. In 2016-2017, we will be working on the Receipt Book of Margaret Baker, ca. 1675 (Folger Shakespeare Library V.a.619).
Identifier

10670/2.31lw5a

Organization

OpenEdition

Discipline

History (23) Literature (14) Linguistics (6) Economies and finances (6) Communication sciences (4) History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences (4) Political science (3) Sociology (2) Philosophy (2) Management (2) Gender studies (2) Art and art history (2) Archaeology and Prehistory (2) Social Anthropology and ethnology (2) Demography (1) Classical studies (1) Architecture, space management (1)

Type

Blog posts (84)

Authors

Date

84 documents
A Guide to Transcribing
adamcampbelldrew (May 10, 2020)
Importance of social media in the creation of Old Timey Winey
eangus (May 8, 2020)
Combatting Coughs in Eighteenth-Century England.
bdavey (May 7, 2020)
The dark side of female alliances
ebanyai (May 6, 2020)
Early Modern recipe books for when you’re not ill
Amanda Horne (May 5, 2020)
A Remedy to Cure all Ills
kwoolgar (Mar 25, 2020)
Another Trip into Early Modern Medicine
Amanda Horne (Mar 23, 2020)
Alcohol: Luxury or necessity?
astradomskyte (Mar 20, 2020)
Palaeography
astradomskyte (Mar 19, 2020)
The Joys of 18th Century Baking: Small Cakes
bdavey (Mar 17, 2020)
Aqua Mirabilis
tallulahmaait (Mar 13, 2020)
There is no Distinction Between Cooking or Medicine in Early Modern Cookbooks - Why?
adamcampbelldrew (Mar 11, 2020)
Collecting recipes and gifting hand-written recipe books: still a family tradition?
ebanyai (Mar 9, 2020)
What Makes a Good Husband: An Early Modern Take
adamcampbelldrew (Feb 3, 2020)
Venison or Chocolate
kwoolgar (Jan 31, 2020)
Le Strange ways of living: An analysis of Jane Whittle and Elizabeth Griffiths work.
bdavey (Jan 29, 2020)
Recreating a Historical Recipe: Blanch Creame
tallulahmaait (Jan 27, 2020)
Treating a cough … Early Modern style!
Amanda Horne (Jan 24, 2020)
The Importance of food in people’s lives throughout history
eangus (Jan 22, 2020)
Stereotypes about the early modern household and the reality
ebanyai (Jan 20, 2020)
A plum cake: (A 'slight' modern adaptation to an old classic)
astradomskyte (Nov 18, 2019)
All Good Things Must Come to an End – Concluding Blog Post
willparker (May 15, 2019)
Fanny Burney: The Keeper of the Robes
samwoodward (May 14, 2019)
Dr Willis: The Cure to the King’s Madness or his Personal Torturer?
willparker (May 13, 2019)
Retrospective diagnosis: the borderline of science and the humanities
samwoodward (May 12, 2019)

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