This semester my Women and Medicine class (HSCI 3243) is working on manuscript recipe books written by early modern English women, a project I’ve blogged about before (see here and here). Many of my students are planning to recreate culinary recipes from these books, so I was inspired to try one myself, both because IContinue reading “Recreating lemon biskeats”
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Cooking in the Classroom; or, how to make a Hedge Hogg
This semester I tried a new type of assignment in my HSCI 3013 class. I had students transcribe and analyze recipes from an early modern English manuscript recipe book held by and digitized by the Wellcome Library in London. You can find the catalog record, and link to the digital version of MS 8097 here. According to theContinue reading “Cooking in the Classroom; or, how to make a Hedge Hogg”
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