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London Research Summary
Museum of London – 17th Century table I had a good trip to London. Final count 74 manuscripts reviewed, and over 130 recipes found in those manuscripts (the number will rise slightly as I process them and catalog the variants … Continue reading
London Research
London research is going well. Here is the cellar at Hampton court palace, a 16th century residence actually built by Cardinal Wolsey, but co-opted by Henry VIII. I visited last weekend, and also very much enjoyed looking at the palace … Continue reading
Manuscripts and Spiced Small Mead
I spent last week in Syracuse, NY looking about 200 years in the past (ahh, modern history), helping the family genealogist (hi, Mom). While searching for a scrapbook mentioning my 3x great-grandfather, we found ledgers and other books containing household … Continue reading
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A 19th Century Internet Chat Room
I started this morning trying to reduce the number of references with a ‘need to review’ notation. Richard Hakluyt I started with two books by Richard Hakluyt (1553-1616), an English proponent of North American exploration and colonization, who also published … Continue reading
Musing on Lobel’s Meth
Today I posted a recipe for a spiced mead from 1609. The recipe was published in Charles Butlers ‘The Feminine Monarchy’ about bees with an attribution to Matthias Lobel. See here Lobel’s Meth The redaction for the recipe itself was interesting, … Continue reading
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