Recipes and everyday knowledge : medicine, science, and the household in early modern England / Elaine Leong.

Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2018.

281 pages : black and white illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm

Introduction: recipes, households, and everyday knowledge -- Making recipe books in early modern England: material practices and the social production of knowledge -- Managing health and household from afar -- Collecting recipes step-by-step -- Recipe trials in the early modern household -- Writing the family archive: recipes and the paperwork of kinship -- Recipes for sale: intersections between manuscript and print cultures -- Conclusion: recipes beyond the household.

Includes bibliographical references and index.