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The Johnson Family Treasury: a Collection of Household and Medicinal Recipes, 1741–1818

The Johnson Family Treasury: a Collection of Household and Medicinal Recipes, 1741–1818
by Nathalie Cooke and Kathryn Harvey, editors

Publisher: Rock’s Mills Press
Genre: history; Canadian history
Format: paperback; 252 pages
Price: $34.95

This collection of household recipes and remedies gathered over a century is a fascinating look at illness, health and cures from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The book was compiled between 1741 and 1858 by several female members of the Johnson family of England (exact origins and family members’ names remain unknown). The book was discovered in the archives of the University of Guelph, leading Prof. Nathalie Cooke of McGill University to surmise that one of the authors eventually immigrated to Canada. Prof. Cooke has identified five primary women contributors to the collection over a century of record-keeping. Includes: facsimiles of hand-written pages; a table of ailments; alphabetic listing of medicinal topics of the period; English cooking and medicinal recipes of the times.