| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 374 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in Book and Print Culture |
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Studies in book and print culture.
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| Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Historical Introduction; Folk Culture, Food, and the Renaissance; The Seventeenth-Century English Housewife: Her Work, Knowledge, and Authority; Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen's Literacy and Writing; Receipt Books; Looking Back, Looking Forward: Scholarship on Receipt Books and a New Consideration of Cookbooks; Reading Receipt Books in the Kitchen; Note on the Text; Three seventeenth-century receipt books; MS V.a.430: Receipt Book attributed to Mary Granville and Anne Granville D'Ewes |
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MS V.a.20: Receipt Book attributed to Constance HallMS V.a.450: Cookery and Medical Receipt Book attributed to Lettice Pudsey; Glossary of Culinary, Medical, and Household Terms; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
Preserving on Paper is a critical edition of three seventeenth-century receipt books-handwritten manuals that included a combination of culinary recipes, medical remedies, and household tips which documented the work of women at home |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800
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Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800
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Home economics -- Early works to 1800
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English literature -- Women authors.
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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COOKING -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
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Women and literature
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Home economics
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Formulas, recipes, etc.
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English literature -- Women authors
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English literature -- Early modern
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Cooking, English
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Early works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kowalchuk, Kristine, 1974- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781487510107 |
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1487510101 |
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9781487510114 |
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148751011X |
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