Mrs. Mary Eales's receipts. (1733)

"Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts" by Mary Eales is a compendium of early 1700s culinary recipes that shows us how food was made back then. The book teaches how to make different kinds of sweets and preserve food, demonstrating the techniques used long ago. It contains a wide variety of recipes for things like drying fruit and making jam and jelly, all very important ways to keep food from going bad during different seasons. It starts by teaching people how to cook and keep fruits like angelica, apricots, and cherries. The book has detailed steps on how to dry foods, keep them fresh, and make desserts with them, focusing on methods that keep them tasty and last a long time. Every recipe shows the careful ways things were done back then, with measurements and methods that match the way the author cooked.