Ladie Borlase's Receiptes Booke, an English manorial and culinary manuscript, has been in existence for at least 333 years. This manuscript, bearing dates from

Apricot wine and stewed calf’s head, melancholy medicine and "ointment of roses." Welcome to the cookbook Shakespeare would have recognized. Preserving on Pap

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"Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt Book" from Eliza Leslie. American author of popular cookbooks (1787-1858).