Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 40 records

Total number of records: 40

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Archives	39
Books and printed items	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
recipes	40
cooking	35
home economics	11
medicine	8
medicine, popular	7
cooking, english	3
pastry	1
scrapbooks	1
wine and winemaking	1
sermons	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Lister, Dame Mary (1625-1635)	1
King James I (1566-1625)	1
Miserly Old Bachelor	1
Ricettius, Antonius	1
Wyld, Mary	1
Willes, Sir (1685-1761)	1
Swainson Family	1
Kidder, Edward	1
Gastronomicus	1
Corke, Lady	1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1600	8
From 1700	13
From 1800	19

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1699	5
Up to 1799	13
Up to 1899	22

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...

Archive File:
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)

Archive File:
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...

Archive File:
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

Archive File:
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

Archive File:
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

Archive File:
MS 462

An anonymous recipe book, including some recipes from Surrey and Yorkshire

c.1800

Also known as:Recipe book Sources of recipes include: Mrs Page of Streatham and Sheen (ff.6r, 7v, 12r, 15r, and 17v); Mrs Brooksbank of Yorkshire and 'Healaugh' [presumably Philippa Brooksbank (d.184...

Archive File:
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 '...

Archive File:
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 ...

Archive File:
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.

Archive File:
MS 47

Cookery book, compiled by Antonius Ricettius, gastronomicus

c.1750

A collection of recipes