darker ink

Evidence

"Often recipes featured a side note in a darker ink, such as ‘approved’ whereas others were marked with an ‘x’."

Remarks

In the '17th Century Ms Receipts', researchers noted that recipes were often annotated with 'approved' or 'x' in a 'darker ink' to signify reliability (p. 13). Ink quality across these collections varied from 'well-quilled' to 'thick and illegible' (p. 13). Specific mention is made of the 'faded quality of ink' in the first third of the 17th Century Ms Receipt book, which complicates transcription (p. 20).