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Total number of records: 225

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Books and printed items211
Archives14

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Cookery Collection201
Brotherton Collection9
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1
English Literature1
Herbert Read Collection1

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home economics225
cooking67
cooking, english67
recipes52
medicine10
agriculture10
women7
domestics7
medicine, popular6
carving (meat, etc.)6

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Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)32
Philp, Robert Kemp (1819-1882)8
Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637)8
Copley, Esther7
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)7
Child, Lydia Maria Francis (1802-1880)6
Parkes, Mrs William5
Johnstone, C I (1781-1857)5
Beeton, Mrs (1836-1865)5
Lady4

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Swaledale Boundary Dispute and Other Papers

1859-1869

Original ms. papers, in multiple hands. The principle manuscript in this file (23 leaves) relates to a 19th century boundary dispute in Swaledale. The dispute relates to the enclosure of lands in the ...

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Account book of domestic expenditure, mainly on foodstuffs, 1752-1755
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Account book of domestic expenditure, mainly on foodstuffs, 1752-1755

1752-1755

Ff.135-141 are sewn in loosely at the end, the stub of the former f.142 being visible

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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

Bolt, Jane

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

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

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A recipe book in various hands, once in the possession of Mrs Green of Penblaith Farm, Llangarron, Herefordshire, from 1741 to 1764
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A recipe book in various hands, once in the possession of Mrs Green of Penblaith Farm, Llangarron, Herefordshire, from 1741 to 1764

17--

Recipes supplied by: Ann Cutler (f.13r); Mrs Scammell (f.14r); Mr Davie (f.16r); Mrs Indmah (?) (f.17r); Mrs Chamberlain, Mrs Richardson (f.18r); Mrs Addams (f.18v); Mrs Green (ff.19v, 24r and 24v), a...

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

18--

A collection of cookery and general household recipes

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

18--

A collection of cookery and general household recipes

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An anonymous recipe book containing culinary, medical and household recipes and memoranda, probably of Guernsey origin
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An anonymous recipe book containing culinary, medical and household recipes and memoranda, probably of Guernsey origin

18--?

Recipe attributed to Mr. Geddins, store-keeper of Fort St. George, 1836 (f. 17r.); list of ailments of the writer's children, 1820-1829 (ff. 18v.-19r.); form of bond for Sarah Gibbons, St. Peter Port,...

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

c.1851

A collection of cookery and general household recipes

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

1825

A collection of cookery recipes, notes on household management, and medical remedies

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

c.1850

Contents at one end comprise a collection of cookery recipes (pp.1-137) preceded by an index. At the other endm inverted, is a collection of medicinal and household recipes

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