THE ATHENAEUMThe Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight OpenedKenelm Digby
Food History
The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textKenelm Digby was a courtier, privateer, natural philosopher and Catholic exile, and his recipes were printed in 1669, four years after he died. More than a hundred of them are for mead, metheglin and other honeyed drinks, many with the name of the friend who gave them. This is Anne Macdonell’s edition of 1910.
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- Reading time
- About 6 hr 20 min
- Where to find it
- On the Food History shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #16441. In the public domain in the United States.