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"Cooking in the Archives: Updating Early Modern Recipes (1600-1800) in a Modern Kitchen" is a public food history project run by Alyssa Connell and Marissa Nicosia... sets out to find, cook, and discuss recipes from cookbooks produced between 1600 and 1800. This project is situated at the intersection between the practice of modern cooking and the history of early modern manuscript and printed recipe books. Penn's Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts holds over 100 recipe books from the early modern era. We believe these recipes belong in the modern kitchen as well as the historical archive. After all, what are recipes if not instructions for cooking?
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Folger Shakespeare Library UPenn Library - Kislak Clark Library Penn State drinks Penn Kislak MS v.b.380 apple holiday cookies puff pantry Mary Baumfylde V.a.456 Before Farm to Table GRBBO Christian Barclay Savories biscuits cakes
To Make Chocolett Cream (Lady Elizabeth Craven)
2 October 2023
See the end of the post for information about the fourth annual Great Rare Books Bakeoff that is taking place this week (September 30-October 8, 2023)! On a recent visit to...
Christian Barclay’s Sugar Bisket
27 September 2023
Bake this recipe between September 30 – October 8 to participate in the fourth annual Great Rare Books Bakeoff! (More information at the end of the post.) Many thanks to my Barclay...
27 June 2023
I first learned that a “codling” was an unripe apple from the footnotes in a copy of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. When Cesario arrives at Olivia’s gate and refuses...
22 May 2023
This recreation of a Seed Cake recipe was both inspired and informed by my participation in conversations about Robert Forbes’s manuscript The Lyon in Mourning in Edinburgh in 2022...