Over a thousand historical recipes and home remedies online

“Circle-pike”, rice doughnuts and crayfish pudding are three examples of a total of 1,111 recipes made available to the public in November as part of SLS’s digital publishing project Historiska recept [Historical Recipes]. The publication presents six Finnish recipe collections from the 1700s and 1800s from Louhisaari, Nauvo, Turku, Stensböle and Akaa, as well as a previously unknown manuscript from Herttoniemi Manor.

The recipes are available as facsimiles, transcriptions, and as easy-to-read, modernised texts. Since the material is searchable, it is easy to find all the recipes that include a certain ingredient, such as carrot. The full list spans over 700 ingredients. Modern equivalents of the units of measurement used in the recipes are also included.

Historiska recept is the result of a two-year project at SLS. This culinary treasure trove is available to everyone and will be expanded with more recipes in 2023–2025.

Michaela von Kügelgen

Historiska recept

By Maren Jonasson, Sebastian Köhler and Märtha Norrback.

historiskarecept.sls.fi (in Swedish)

Hushållsbok för Stensböle gård. Recept, råd och huskurer från 1700talet (in Swedish)

By Märtha Norrback,

published by SLS and Appell Förlag in 2020