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Lucy Mookerjee

Lucy Mookerjee is Research Assistant in Literature at Johns Hopkins. Currently a Research Fellow at the Folger, she is editing The Forme of Cury: A Global Cookbook (Medieval Publications Institute, Middle English Text Series forthcoming 2024).
Recipes to remember: Coriander, gallyngale, and the legacies of the lost
a handwritten book of recipes
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Recipes to remember: Coriander, gallyngale, and the legacies of the lost

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Lucy Mookerjee

The Receipt Book of Margaret Baker, compiled in 1675, contains a recipe for a memory-potion called “Confect of Coriander Seed.”