[Sca-cooks] Wellcome Library Receipt Books

[Johnna Holloway]

On another list someone quoted a 1654 potato pie recipe from
a "cookbook"  by Grace Acton that rang no bells with me
as being something that was ever published in the 17th century, so I
went looking.

It turns up in a blog which led to finding this:

Title Acton, Grace Date 1621 Name Acton, Grace, fl.1621. Description
Collection of cookery and medical receipts.
The upper cover is lettered 'Herbes to season, herbes to cure'. Inside
the upper cover in red ink 'Grace Acton, May 1621'.

http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=%28RefNo==%27MS1%27%29

That leads to this page at the Wellcome Library where they are at work
digitizing their recipe manuscripts.

http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTL039966.html

Sources Guide: Domestic medicine and receipt books – 16th & 17th century

Further information about the materials mentioned below can be found
on the Archives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue

Digital versions of all the 17th century manuscripts in this source
guide are accessible via theArchives and Manuscripts Online Catalogue.
Simply search on the relevant MS. reference and open up the catalogue
record to view the PDF. Further information on the recipe books
digitisation project.

16th century

Anne de Croy, 'Recueil d'aulcunes confections et médicines', 1533 MS.222

Elisabethe von Gradnekh, Junkhfrawen Elisabethen von Grandnekh Ertzney
Buec hell', 1544 MS.317

Elisabet Schitzin and others, 'Ertzney Biechl', 1581-1668 MS.732

There are dozens of 17th century items.

Something for me to explore this week.

Just thought I'd share



Johnna Holloway