To Bake French Bread

  By Madison Verge Recipe Transcription: To Bake French Bread  Take halfe a peek of fine Flower and halfe a pound of fresh butter, a quart of Milk, Rosewater, four eggs, some salt as big as an egg of leaven, lett it stand half an hour, then make it up and bake it. Recipe Amounts …

To Make Lemon/Orange Cream

Recipe by: Madam Dean Made by: Mariah Yates In my college class, HSCI 3243 The History of Science, Women and Medicine we have been working on a research project having to deal with recipe books written by early modern English women. We have been working in groups to transcribe the recipes in various different recipes …

Almond Jumbals

By Neil Arora The recipe I recreated was from a recipe book by Catherine Cotton that contains both culinary and medical recipes. The book has its origins from 1698 England. Beat a pound of blanched almonds small in a mortar and put in a little orange-flower-water or rose-water to keep them from oiling. Dry them …

Carrot Stew

By Serena Kana Original Recipe from Elizabeth Jacob’s book To Stew Carrots Take your carrots and cut them in long little pieces and take a pretty many onions ad cut them small. A bunch of sweet hearbes. A little whole pepper and a little nutmeg, and put on much water as will lower your sauce …

Gingerbread

By Kayla Riley From Elizabeth Jacob’s book Physicall and chyrurgicall receipts. Cookery and preserves I chose a recipe in Elizabeth Jacob’s book for gingerbread. The basis of this recipe includes combining sugar, butter, and milk over a skillet on top of the stove. The next step is to add flour to this mixture until it …