Hey Faldage: using your clue, I searched again for "home remedies still-room" and look what I found:
"Cookery books were among the earliest of printed books to emerge in the latter part of the fifteenth century. Until the advent of the printed cookbook, cooks relied on memory and what they learned from others. Knowledge was passed on orally or in manuscript receipt books, relatively few of which have survived for us to ponder. Spawned by large-scale economic and social change, more printed household books, some of which revealed the secrets of preparing "banquetting stuffe," were written by men or women for ladies, gentlewomen, and, increasingly, for housewives and their servants. 'Banquetting stuffe' served both as medicinal aids to digestion and sweetmeats to satisfy the taste buds. Considered a treasure of the nobility, "banquetting stuffe" carried clear implications of status and wealth, and were thus all the more desirable to the middle classes.

"Banquetting stuffe," eventually associated with the last course in the meal, often emanated from a private place called the still-room, a room either within the house or in a separate building which contained a "still" for distillation. A common practice of concealing both medicinal and sugar recipes lent an air of secrecy to the early still-room. There was also a sense of mystery surrounding the preparation of remedies for good health, beauty, and entertainment. The still-room and its preparations: perfumes, beauty creams, liqueurs, syrups of quince and barbarie, cordials, and other sweet delicacies--as well as remedies for curing the sick--were the provenance of the lady of the house.

Thus, the earliest printed books for use in the still-room describe both the methods of distillation and food preparation and the products to emerge from this cloistered part of the manor. As the secrets of the aristocratic still-room were disclosed in these specialized printed cookery books such as The Delights for Ladies, the books were slowly undergoing transformation. At the same time, the social boundaries of the great estates were being expanded by an economically-rising middle class. Acquiring, among others, the foodstuffs and cooking "secrets" of the rich, middle-class women symbolically helped to reshape the boundaries."