Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England Format:Paperback In this historical tour de

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Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England Format:Paperback In this historical tour deAcross early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified by teams of householders, including masters and servants, husbands and wives, mothers and daughters, and fathers and sons. This much sought know how was written into notebooks of various shapes and sizes