SynopsisIn the IOWA SZATHMARY CULINARY ARTS series, a reproduction of a Borlase family manuscript containing recipes for foods, remedies, dyes, soaps and perfumes. The manuscript has entries dating from 1665 to 1822 and the editor places it in its historical context, highlighting the economic and social changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries., Ladie Borlase's Receiptes Booke, an English manorial and culinary manuscript, has been in existence for at least 333 years. This manuscript, bearing dates from 1665 to 1822, provides a unique compendium of culinary history that opens a window to the aristocratic, social, agricultural, horticultural, economic, and medicinal aspects of English country life.