The Household Receipt Book of Ann, Lady Fanshawe
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.30493Keywords:
family recipes, handwritten manuscripts, Memoir, Ann, Lady Fanshawe, 17th-century, English Civil War, Restoration England, social history, John Evelyn, recipe sharing/exchange, ChocolateAbstract
This article looks at the book of household receipts as well as the manuscript book of memoirs kept by Ann, Lady Fanshawe (1625-1680). When Katherine, Ann's daughter inherited the receipts book it contained more than 300 receipts and she added another 200+ to those with the last probably dating from around 1708.
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