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What could be more fun than reading 18th century recipes, both for food and (fruit)wines? Actually, transcribing 18th century recipes for food and wine! I fear I have a new hobby, maybe even a new addiction: transcribing 18th century cookery manuscripts in the English language, collected by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. After I returned from the Oxford … [Lees meer...] overOf samphire pye and golden water: transcribing for the Folger Library