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NYAM Series: Medicinal Recipes

What do cinnamon, eel livers and white amber all have in common? They’re all proposed as aids for easing childbirth in Choise Receipts, a handwritten cookbook in the Academy’s collections, dating to 1680. Our library holds 36 manuscript receipt books, dating from the late 17th through the 19thcentury, in German, French, Dutch and English, many containing medicinal recipes. Together with our extensive collections of herbals and print recipe books, well used by plant enthusiasts, homeopaths and housewives alike, these recipe collections show how skilled professionals and lay-people devised treatments for common ailments.











When: Thu., May. 12, 2016 at 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Where: The New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Ave.
212-822-7200
Price: $30
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What do cinnamon, eel livers and white amber all have in common? They’re all proposed as aids for easing childbirth in Choise Receipts, a handwritten cookbook in the Academy’s collections, dating to 1680. Our library holds 36 manuscript receipt books, dating from the late 17th through the 19thcentury, in German, French, Dutch and English, many containing medicinal recipes. Together with our extensive collections of herbals and print recipe books, well used by plant enthusiasts, homeopaths and housewives alike, these recipe collections show how skilled professionals and lay-people devised treatments for common ailments.

Buy tickets/get more info now