As the latest issue of the Wellcome Trust's
Big Picture tackles the themes of
Food and Diet, we thought we would set a culinary challenge for chef Zack Mila. Faced with the Library's collection of
17th recipe manuscripts - and an absence of details, such as cooking times and temperatures - could Zack bring a centuries old recipe to life?
Click on the film above to see how Zach - aided by the Wellcome Library's Helen Wakely - got on (and if you want to look at the recipe in more detail, this link from our
catalogue will take you to a digitised edition of it).
Video by Barry J Gibb, Multimedia Editor, Wellcome Trust