Richard Hill’s commonplace book, Oxford, Balliol College, MS 354, was written over the course of 30 years in the first half of the sixteenth century. It encompasses the eclectic material copied by a London grocer: from medical recipes and table manners to religious lyrics, commercial and civic matters to edited excerpts from John Gower’s Confessio Amantis. While all entries in MS 354 were copied by one single hand, the women in Richard Hill’s household would have directly benefitted from the various parts of the book, whether by someone reading entries to them, or by reading them themselves. The medical recipes included in the manuscript, 32 in total, would have especially been read by women in charge of the household’s health.