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Chapter 10 - Foreign Ingredients in Early and Late Modern English Recipes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2022

By
Isabel De la Cruz-Cabanillas
Edited by
Irma Taavitsainen ,
Turo Hiltunen ,
Jeremy J. Smith  and
Carla Suhr
Irma Taavitsainen
Affiliation:
University of Helsinki
Turo Hiltunen
Affiliation:
University of Helsinki
Jeremy J. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
Carla Suhr
Affiliation:
University of Helsinki
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Summary

This chapter explores several Early Modern English medical recipe compilations extant in manuscripts held in Glasgow University Library to investigate the recipe genre as reflection of that time period. No other genre is so permeable to the changes in the cultural and social spheres, given that recipes mirror the contemporary society where they were written. This fact is especially noticeable in the abundance of new substances that are incorporated in the recipes of the period from the Continent and, especially, from the New World.

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Early Modern Englishmedical recipesforeign ingredientsGlasgow University Library Manuscripts
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Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820
Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use
 , pp. 150 - 166
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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