Project Gutenberg 2004-12-18 Public domain in the USA. 484 Woolley, Hannah, active 1670 Wolley, Hannah Wolley, Anna Challinor, Hannah Wolly, Hannah The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen-Like_Closet Produced by David Starner, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team, from Scans from Biblioteca de la Universitat de Barcelona "The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet" by Hannah Woolley is a collection of recipes and remedies written in the late 17th century. This work serves as an intriguing resource for women of the era, offering a variety of culinary concoctions and medicinal recipes aimed at enhancing domestic skills and health. The opening of the text introduces readers to Woolley's intent to provide new experiments and valuable knowledge to her audience, particularly women interested in cooking and herbal remedies. She begins with a dedication to a friend, expressing gratitude for the support she has received. This portion showcases some of the foundational recipes that blend gastronomy and herbal medicine, including instructions for making various flavored waters and health tonics. It reflects the cultural significance of women engaging in the arts of healing and cookery during this period, illustrating not only the practicality of the recipes but also the social expectations of women to cultivate these skills. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 72.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800 Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800 TX Text Cookbooks and Cooking Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750) Category: Cooking & Drinking Category: How To ... 468161 2025-10-06T09:28:29.884306 text/html 468212 468033 2024-11-06T12:36:33.055961 2023-10-06T12:47:12.422635 text/html text/html 221313 2025-10-06T09:28:38.858237 application/epub+zip 226948 2025-10-06T09:28:33.106280 application/epub+zip 196298 2025-10-06T09:28:31.876262 application/epub+zip 436630 2025-10-06T09:28:42.654205 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 397146 2025-10-06T09:28:37.807262 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 270771 2022-09-07T16:03:50.192300 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 393124 2025-10-06T09:28:29.453303 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 373291 2024-10-28T21:25:55 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17595 2025-10-06T09:28:42.788214 application/rdf+xml 15154 2025-10-06T09:28:32.386274 image/jpeg 3592 2025-10-06T09:28:32.128299 image/jpeg 217903 2025-10-06T09:28:29.912263 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia