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This chapter begins with the example of The Lady Grace Castleton’s Booke of Receipts (Folger MS V.a.600), a recipe collection from the late seventeenth century, which uses six words to describe a low fire: ‘soft’, ‘easy’, ‘gentle’, ‘slow’, ‘small’, and ‘sober’. The chapter then turns to a consideration of this wonderfully evocative language alongside other moments that denote attention to fire within a new searchable recipe corpus in LUNA, the Folger digital manuscript repository. It ends with a meditation upon the vigilance needed to maintain the right amount of heat for certain recipes and the implications for our understanding of the role of kitchen work in the development of human psychology. |
