Princess Treatment · Stop No. 100
Marie Antoinette
“Homemade made easy”
- Era
- France, 1793, recipe finalized
- Provenance
- Versailles, then the Place de la Révolution
- Medium
- Ink on aged paper ground
- Edition
- Open edition
A recipe card in the housekeeping style: two eggs, one cup vegetable oil, a few royals. The guillotine is pictured for scale. The queen never actually said the thing about cake, but the recipe went ahead without her endorsement.
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