Abstract
Abstract: Early modern scholars have traced the use of milk as a culinary metaphor in Renaissance drama. Milk was understood to be an already transformed and actively transforming fluid. Sixteenth-century receipt books from the Folger Shakespeare Library help contextualize these symbolic resonances in milk’s material substance as it manifests in the receipt book’s utilitarian prescriptions. This paper uses genre studies to argue that milk offers an additional node on the receipt book’s matrices of transformation and to highlight the early modern receipt book as a valuable site of inquiry for ecofeminist and new materialist scholarship.
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