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Total number of records: 50

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives47
Objects3

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
recipes36
cooking30
home economics20
cooking, english7
medicine7
cooking, european3
gastronomy2
medicine, popular2
dinners and dining2
book collecting2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hodgkin, John (Bibliographer)10
Preston, John F3
Whittaker, Maude Mary2
Bennett, Arnold (1867-1931)2
Leigh, Blanche Legat2
Leak, Dorothy Mary (1903-1989)1
Miserly Old Bachelor1
Bruvet, Charles Adolphe Desire1
Aldred, R A1
Bedford, Thomas Henry Booth (1898-1961)1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 180024
From 190021
From 20002

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 5992
Up to 189920
Up to 199925
Up to latest3

Archive Collection

Cookery Manuscripts

2500 BCE - 2000

Items cover cookery, household management, medicine and remedies, including ancient texts.

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English cookery books from 1500 to 1900: a bibliography, by John Preston
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English cookery books from 1500 to 1900: a bibliography, by John Preston

Preston, John F

c. 1962?

Contains detailed bibliographical descriptions of selected items

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English cookery books, 1500 to 1900: a bibliography, by John F. Preston
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English cookery books, 1500 to 1900: a bibliography, by John F. Preston

Preston, John F

c. 1962

The bibliography takes the form of a synoptic list of some 1,500 items, for the most part arranged chronologically. Also present are "Contents of case no. 1"; a handlist of the John F. Preston cookery...

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An anonymous collection of culinary and medical receipts
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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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Manuscript notebook owned by Nanny Gummersall containing recipes

1824-1881

A manuscript notebook containing recipes, religious extracts and an account of a journey to Scotland in 1834. The book originally belonged to Nanny Clayton from Bierley in Bradford. She started the...

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Catalogue of English cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin
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Catalogue of English cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin

Hodgkin, John (bibliographer)

c.1930

Black octavo note-book, lettered: Where is it?

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Catalogue of French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin
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Catalogue of French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin

Hodgkin, John (bibliographer)

c.1920

Black octavo note-book, with several blank leaves and a short index

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Abridged catalogue entries of English cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin
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Catalogue entries of English cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin
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Catalogue entries of English cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin

Hodgkin, John (bibliographer)

c.1930

On long slips of paper cut from foolscap sheet

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Cookery book compiled ca.1914 by Magdalen (Lena) Fraser Bennet and Alice Agnes Dean Bennet, of Ibrox, Glasgow
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Cookery book compiled ca.1914 by Magdalen (Lena) Fraser Bennet and Alice Agnes Dean Bennet, of Ibrox, Glasgow

Bennet, Magdalen Fraser (1875-1962)

c.1914

Mainly in pencil; loosely sewn into a limp cloth wrapper originally part of a different volume and bearing in gold stamp 'The Scottish Temperance League Register 1914'; partially paginated (f.1r = p.3...

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