Gumpowder? A strange little recipe for sensitive teeth…
If you go to your bathroom and check the ingredients in your well-known brand of sensitive toothpaste, you may well find that the recipe contains the active ingredient potassium nitrate. Also known as...
View ArticleTobacco Smoke Enemas in Eighteenth-Century Domestic Medicine
By Katherine Allen Over the holiday I was working on a transcription of an eighteenth-century recipe book and came across an initially humorous recipe for treating ‘the winde & Collick’ (Wellcome,...
View ArticlePilau, eighteenth-century style
To follow Katherine Allen’s post on tobacco: some thoughts on a different colonial import. Researching in recipe books often presents tempting diversions, and this recipe for ‘Pilau after the East...
View ArticleHunting for herbs: chasing migraine remedies across the centuries
Katherine Foxhall I was delighted to see Mrs Corlyon’s recipe book (Wellcome MS.213) as the subject of Jennifer Sherman Roberts’ recent post on this blog. Here, I am going to explore another of Mrs...
View ArticleTales from the Archives – Gumpowder? A strange little recipe for sensitive...
In September 2017, The Recipes Project celebrated its fifth birthday. We now have over 600 posts in our archives and over 150 pages for readers to sift through. That’s a lot of material! (And thank you...
View ArticleFollowing Valerian: New Name, Old Idea
Katherine Foxhall In late August, 1781, Sir Charles Blagden, physician, Francophile, army surgeon and Fellow (later to be Secretary) of the Royal Society of London received a letter from his friend,...
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