In recent decades, interest in foodways, in women’s lives, and in everyday matters, has increased. Women’s handwritten recipes books – a combination of culinary recipes, medical remedies and household tips – are especially valuable for cultural understanding. In these domestic manuals one can learn, among other things, about food consumption, trade routes, class aspects and social markers, agriculture, and everyday skills.
Yrsa Lindqvist (Wed,) studied this question.