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Domestic Knowledge
Recipes, Gender, & History
Edited by Stephanie Koscak
Course: HST 323, "Wives, Writers, and Witches: Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe”, Wake Forest University, Spring 2023
Contact: Kyle Denlinger | [email protected]
Domestic Knowledge examines early modern European society through the lens of manuscript recipe books from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, showcasing recipes for cookery, medicines, and household goods. The project challenges students to transcribe and recreate these recipes. Through research and reflection, students gain insight into how culinary and medicinal practices of the time both shaped and were shaped by gender roles, domestic labor, foodways, and cultures of healing.
