The Good Huswifes Jewell.

Wherein is to be found most excelend and rare Deuises for the conceites in Cookery, found out by the practise of Thomes Dawson.

Whereunto is adjioyned sundry approved receits for many soveraine oyles, and the way to distill many precious waters, with divers approved medicines for many diseases.

Also certain approved points of husbandry, very necessary for all Husbandmen to know.

Newly set forth with additions. 1596.

The Elizabethan age represented the period of transition from the Medieval to the modern and cookery was changing as trade brought new ingredients and fashion favoured new styles of cooking with, for example, locally grown herbs as well as imported spices. Cooking came to be seen as a subject in its own right rather than being part of medicine or books of "secrets" and cookery books were becoming available to a wider audience than the aristocratic households of the Middle Ages.

The Good Huswifes Jewell contains over 150 recipes including recipes for medicines and a section on husbandry. It was originally published in 1587 and was re printed in 1596 and 1610