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Total number of records: 395

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	357
Archives	38

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Cookery Collection	390
Brotherton Collection	4
English Literature	2
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
cooking	395
cooking, english	96
recipes	79
home economics	67
medicine, popular	26
medicine	24
cooking, french	23
food	23
menus	13
brewing	12

Count of Place

Place	Count
England	5
Vienna (Austria)	1
India	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)	32
Apicius	12
Mason, Charlotte	10
Garrett, Theodore Francis	10
Rawson, William A	10
Moxon, Elizabeth	9
Briand, M	9
Raffald, Elizabeth (1733-1781)	8
Acton, Eliza (1799-1859)	8
Kettilby, Mary	7

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1500	14
From 1600	37
From 1700	152
From 1800	192

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1599	14
Up to 1699	33
Up to 1799	151
Up to 1899	197

Archive Series:
MS 24

Recipes for cookery and household remedies

16--

Contemporary pagination (irregular) 3-4, 10-11, 19-20, 23-48, 51-68, 69-71, 76-99, 104-109, 112-115, 122-127, 130-143, 148-167, 170-180. Commencing from the other end, modern ink pagination (irregular...

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MS 1680

An anonymous collection of culinary and medical receipts

18--

Pages 1-129 contain culinary receipts; pages 130-137 contain medical receipts; (pp.9-14; 23-24; 28-30; 42-44; 56-58; 68-70; 75-78;91-108; 119-129; 138-148 are blank)

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MS 1694

Recipe book for the large scale production of cordials.

1764-1778

Contains 54 manuscript recipes for the large scale production of cordials, dated between 1764 and 1778. They include one for producing 30 gallons of Wormwood cordial, and others for rectifying molasse...

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MS 328

Book containing late seventeenth century culinary and medical recipes

ca.1690

In 3 different hands. Bound in leather, with modern pencilled foliation

Archive File:
MS 366

A cookery book mainly compiled by Mary Wyld

c.1797

Cookery book, with the sources of some of the recipes noted

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MS 438

Recipe book compiled by various hands from various sources, 1778-1809

1778-1809

Private sources of recipes include many in the Knaresborough area; published sources include several Yorkshire newspapers

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MS 460

Commonplace book containing culinary recipes and various household directions, in various hands, commenced by Jane Bolt in 1694 and completed by M.P. Gutch in 1841

1694-1841

Text from f.33v to end inverted; signature of M.P. Gutch on f.1r; signatures of Jane Bolt on ff.1r and 2r; recipes dated 1840 on ff.1v and 2v and dated 1841 on ff.96r and v

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MS 461

An anonymous recipe book with the title 'Instructions in cookery' and some additional recipes in other hands

Eighteenth Century

Also known as:Instructions in cookery

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MS 463

Various culinary receipts compiled by Dorothy Darby

c.1800

Watermark, 'R. Glover 1798', ff. 1 and 2. Inscriptions: front paste-down, 'Dorothy Darby's Cyphering Book'; back paste-down, 'Dorothy Darby, Hadley Green, near Barnet, Middlesex'. Folios bearing her '...

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MS 464

Liberal living for men of limited means, by a Miserly Old Bachelor

c.1876

A scrapbook of press-cuttings containing culinary recipes and household hints, interspersed with further recipes in manuscript and preceded by an essay on eating houses in London and notes on kitchen ...

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MS 465

Recipe book compiled by Isabella Fenwick

c.1716

Inscription on f.36v, 'Isabella Fenwicks Booke May the 29 1716'. Conjugate leaf to f.3 missing. Inserted in pocket at end modern correspondence and notes about the item (1952-3), 5 ff.

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MS 485

An anonymous eighteenth-century recipe book containing culinary, medical and household recipes

17--

The book begins '[index] Almond'. Recipes are ascribed to 'Mrs. Gorden' (p.10), 'Raffald' (p.45), 'Miss Hall' (p.48), 'Mrs. Masterson' (p.198) and 'Mr. Webb' (p.226).