Exploring CPP 10a214: Elizabeth Downing’s Busy Month of May
By Hillary Nunn, with Rebecca Laroche Elizabeth Downing was busy in the month of May. Several of her recipes in the opening section of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia manuscript 10a214...
View ArticleExploring CPP 10a214: Lady Honywood, Continued; or On E. Layfield’s Gout
Rebecca Laroche, with Hillary Nunn In my entry in April, I introduced a medical practitioner, Lady Honywood, who had recipes attributed to her in The College of Physicians of Philadelphia manuscript...
View ArticleExploring CPP 10a214: Wingfield Family Lines
Hillary Nunn, with Rebecca Laroche In her July post, Rebecca Laroche addressed the treatments for gout in The College of Physicians of Philadelphia manuscript owned by Anne Layfield. One gout remedy in...
View ArticleExploring CPP 10a214: The Downings of Massachusetts Bay
Hillary Nunn, with Rebecca Laroche No one from the Downing family was at the first Massachusetts Bay Thanksgiving in 1621. It’s interesting to note, though, that the Downings – a family that Rebecca...
View ArticleExploring CPP 10a214: The Place of Devotion
By Rebecca Laroche with Hillary Nunn Since we last posted in 2014, Hillary Nunn and I have been able to meet in Philadelphia and look at the College of Physicians manuscript together. This was an...
View ArticleTemporality in John Dauntesey’s Recipe book (1652-1683)
by Melissa Schultheis In May and June of this year, I had the opportunity to research recipe books and midwifery manuals at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. One manuscript, inscribed “John...
View ArticleEXPLORING CPP 10A214: A New Candidate for the Layfield Hand, Part 1
By Hillary Nunn with Rebecca Laroche The more Rebecca Laroche and I work with the College of Physicians manuscript, the more enmeshed we become with the religious politics of the mid-seventeenth...
View ArticleEXPLORING CPP 10A214: A New Candidate for the Layfield Hand, Part 2
By Hillary Nunn with Rebecca Laroche In my last posting, I reported on a possible new match for the Layfield hand that appears in CPP 10A214. It looked so promising that my collaborator Rebecca Laroche...
View ArticleEXPLORING CPP 10A214: ENTER LADY HONYWOOD, CONTINUED; GETTING IT ON PAPER
By Hillary Nunn with Rebecca Laroche Elaine Leong’s posting about paper’s use as a medical tool inspired me to look more carefully at instances of paper in the Layfield manuscript, which Rebecca...
View ArticleExploring CPP 10a214 – Five Years On: Of Binaries and Collaboration
Editorial: This is the eighth of a series of reflection posts from Recipe Project contributors and editors. By Rebecca Laroche and Hillary Nunn When we began this blog project in February 2013, we did...
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