Recipe

As the BBC launch the demise of their online recipe website admin public outcry discover how the Web Archive is conserving the site forever.

And explore these fabulous historic cookbook collections:

• The British library has a learning site with excerpts from cookbooks from the middle ages to 1900
• The Women’s Library@LSE digital library has some books with fascinating recipes. The Queenlike closet by Hannah Wolley published in 1675 teaches sdome essential skills for gentlewomen – look out on pages 16 and 17 for how to make treacle water or snail water which is excellent for avoiding / treating consumption!