Nuttgens Award winners presentation
Mon 23 Jan
|King's Manor, York
The YGS Nuttgens Award winners for 2022, Rachel Feldberg and Roseanna Kettle of the University of York, will be giving a joint presentation on their research. Doors open at 4:00pm.
Time & Location
23 Jan 2023, 16:30
King's Manor, York, The Kings Manor Exhibition Square University of York, York, YO1 7EP
About the Event
Rachel Feldberg: 'Cooking up Natural Knowledge: Recipes, Learning and Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Norfolk’.
Middling women’s recipe collections offer a wealth of information about their owner’s family, social networks - and knowledge of chemical process and medical remedies. Hannah Neal’s Recipe Collection, written into an unused copy of the 1790 edition of the Daily Journal of Gentleman, Merchants and Tradesmen included veterinary remedies alongside tips on waterproofing linen and making gooseberry vinegar, all useful material for a small scale farming family on the edge of the Norfolk Fens. But it was Elizabeth ’Betsy’ Peach, an impecunious widow in Norwich who gathered recipes for wine from friends and the Lady’s Magazine and took the trouble to calculate how much per gallon it cost her to produce. In this paper Rachel Feldberg argues that recipe collections like these articulated women’s engagement with the natural world and their understanding of domestic scientific process, giving us an insight…