gold
England
17th Century
Source: Snook, Edith. "Review of Preserving on Paper: Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen’s Receipt Books, ed. Kristine Kowalchuk." Early Modern Women, vol. 13, no. 2, 2019, pp. 141-144.
Recipe Details
Ingredients
gold
Preparation Steps
Gold is listed as an ingredient in a medical recipe for the treatment of 'consumption,' found on page 92 of the manuscript referred to as V.a.45 (p. 144).
Original Recipe Text
Gold is listed as an ingredient in a medical recipe for the treatment of 'consumption,' found on page 92 of the manuscript referred to as V.a.45 (p. 144).
Evidence
"When a recipe in V.a.45, for instance, includes gold, pearl, and coral in a remedy for consumption (92)"
Remarks
The author highlights the use of gold, along with pearl and coral, as a significant indicator of how social class influenced medical and culinary practices in early modern women's knowledge culture (p. 144). Although used medicinally, these materials overlap with pigments used in manuscript illumination.
Scientific Analysis
Chemical CompositionAu
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
pigment
ColorGold
RegionEngland
Approx. Year1650
Source Information
AuthorSnook, Edith. "Review of Preserving on Paper: Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen’s Receipt Books, ed. Kristine Kowalchuk." Early Modern Women, vol. 13, no. 2, 2019, pp. 141-144.
CollectionMS V.a.45
Language
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