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Better than a Pound of Sorrow: Antidotes for Melancholy in Early Modern England
The title of the book followed by a square image of a dancing faun-like figure surrounded by a circle of tiny dancers.
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Better than a Pound of Sorrow: Antidotes for Melancholy in Early Modern England

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Andrés Gattinoni

Fellow Andrés Gattinoni looks at Early Modern collections of music and jokes intended to cure melancholy.

Beyond a Cure for Plague
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Beyond a Cure for Plague

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Kathleen Miller

Fellow Kathleen Miller explores the Early Modern use of plague cures to treat more than one type of illness

Christian baking molds from Early Modern Europe
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Christian baking molds from Early Modern Europe

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Rabia Gregory

Folger Fellow Rabia Gregory looks at the use of baking molds with Christian imagery.

Recipes for Survival
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Recipes for Survival

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Hannah Baker Saltmarsh
"Lusty" sack possets, fertility, and the foodways of early modern weddings
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"Lusty" sack possets, fertility, and the foodways of early modern weddings

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Sasha Handley

A guest post by Sasha Handley Take ye yolks of 14 Egs & six whites & boyle them very well strain them into a pewter Bason put a quarte of a pint of Sack to them a grated nutmeg a…

Got Gout? Eighteenth-Century Global "Remedies" in Mary Kettilby’s Receipt Book
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Got Gout? Eighteenth-Century Global "Remedies" in Mary Kettilby’s Receipt Book

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April Fuller Laurel Bassett

A guest post by April Fuller and Laurel Bassett In her early eighteenth-century recipe, “A Drink for the Gout,” Mary Kettilby’s list of ingredients contain both homegrown roots and objects of empire “pressed into service” for the recovery of the…

"For a cancer in the brest": early modern recipes
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"For a cancer in the brest": early modern recipes

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Nadia Seiler

“For a cancer in the brest” The large penstrokes of this title caught my eye as I was cataloging a recently acquired receipt book (a book of culinary and medicinal recipes). In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we…

Don't try this at home (unless you are a professional brewer)
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Don't try this at home (unless you are a professional brewer)

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Heather Wolfe

Here’s a little transcription exercise for our Crocodile readers: Folger MS V.a.429, fol. 29r. This is the title of a recipe in a book of culinary and medical receipts compiled between approximately 1675 and 1750 by a few generations of…