Early Modern Recipes

Investigating and exploring themes of women's recipe-writing, household texts, and medical knowledge in eighteenth-century Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Introducing a new collection of recipes from local manuscripts via the #FridayFeasts on Twitter, starting with an #AlphabetChallenge covering some of the recipes of Elinor Mundy of Shipley Hall as an A-Z. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

Sunday, 26 April 2020

C is for... Cabbage!

A Cabbidge independent (1728) Cutt your cabbidge in severall pieces wash and pick them clean, put them into a fair Pipkin with w...

Friday, 17 April 2020

B is for... Broth (& Beef)!

Broth come la Francois (c.1728) Take a piece of Beef, the rump part of a loin of mutten, and a little piece of veal; boyle them well ...

A is for... Artichokes!

Artechoke bottoms (pickled) c.1728 Take Artechokes before they are full grown, pare them round, cutt off the leafs, chokes, ...

Introducing... The Friday Feasts Alphabet Challenge.

Wow. It has certainly been a while! I have been meaning to dust off this blog for quite some time, and thankfully, the wonderful folks...

Friday, 31 May 2013

A Selection of Early Modern Soup Recipes

The humble soup. To this day, a revered dinner-party staple and 'user upper' of all things fresh that might be neglected in the bott...

Thursday, 30 May 2013

A Trio of Recipes Attributed to Household Cooks

Since my very first encounters with Early Modern receipt book manuscripts, I have been fascinated by the attributions of recipes to certain ...

Monday, 3 September 2012

An 18th Century Two-Course Meal

Over the summer, I have been busy in the archives looking at the receipt books of local women with the intention of focusing mainly on med...

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About Me

EM Recipes: PhD Candidate in History at Nottingham Trent University. My research focuses on the manuscript receipt book collections of aristocratic and gentry households in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, c.1727-1790. Current research interests include the ‘value’ of domestic knowledge in early modern households, female agency in the culinary and medicinal ‘secrets’ of the early modern family, as well as gender roles in the domestic sphere. Work towards my thesis has so far included the transcription of a collection of receipt book manuscripts by Henrietta Harley, Countess of Oxford (1694-1755) and the digitisation of the recipe books of Elinor Mundy and Margaret Willoughby of Aspley. You can also follow me on Twitter - @EMRecipes

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