Project Gutenberg 2004-12-18 Public domain in the USA. 381 Woolley, Hannah, active 1670 Wolley, Hannah Wolley, Anna Challinor, Hannah Wolly, Hannah The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex Reading ease score: 72.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by David Starner, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team, from Scans from Biblioteca de la Universitat de Barcelona "The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet" by Hannah Woolley is a collection of recipes and remedies written in the late 17th century. This work serves as an intriguing resource for women of the era, offering a variety of culinary concoctions and medicinal recipes aimed at enhancing domestic skills and health. The opening of the text introduces readers to Woolley's intent to provide new experiments and valuable knowledge to her audience, particularly women interested in cooking and herbal remedies. She begins with a dedication to a friend, expressing gratitude for the support she has received. This portion showcases some of the foundational recipes that blend gastronomy and herbal medicine, including instructions for making various flavored waters and health tonics. It reflects the cultural significance of women engaging in the arts of healing and cookery during this period, illustrating not only the practicality of the recipes but also the social expectations of women to cultivate these skills. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800 Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800 TX Text Cookbooks and Cooking Browsing: Cooking & Drinking Browsing: Health & Medicine 468219 468040 2024-10-06T12:36:55.240000 2023-10-06T12:47:12.209609 text/html text/html 468212 468033 2024-10-06T12:36:55.561071 2023-10-06T12:47:12.422635 text/html text/html 221209 2024-10-06T12:37:05.370925 application/epub+zip 226954 2024-10-06T12:36:59.183959 application/epub+zip 196303 2024-10-06T12:36:57.820970 application/epub+zip 436558 2024-10-06T12:37:09.676936 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 396910 2024-10-06T12:37:04.439937 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 270771 2022-09-07T16:03:50.192300 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 393292 393164 2024-10-06T12:36:54.766978 2023-10-06T12:47:11.859067 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 393323 2020-12-18T22:46:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 113891 2020-12-18T22:46:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 393314 2020-12-18T22:46:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 113862 2020-12-18T22:46:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21159 2024-10-06T12:37:09.813882 application/rdf+xml 15154 2024-10-06T12:36:58.379942 image/jpeg 3592 2024-10-06T12:36:58.100938 image/jpeg 217854 2024-10-06T12:36:55.592963 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia