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Total number of records: 2240

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Books and printed items2187
Archives52
Objects1

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Cookery Collection2240
Incunabula1

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cooking, english539
cooking390
home economics201
recipes144
cooking, french122
food80
gastronomy78
confectionery75
medicine68
menus62

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Rome6
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Greece2
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Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)77
Glasse, Hannah (1708-1770)55
Raffald, Elizabeth (1733-1781)40
Soyer, Alexis (1809-1858)38
Kitchiner, William (1775?-1827)29
Careme, M A (1784-1833)29
Acton, Eliza (1799-1859)23
Menon23
Johnson, Richard22
Johnson, Richard (1793)22

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Anne Hawtrey's recipe book

Hawtrey, Anne (1669-1727)

1689 - c.1750

Anne Hawtrey's recipe book. A cookery and medical recipe book from the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries.

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Recipes for cookery and household remedies
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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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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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Recipe book for the large scale production of cordials.
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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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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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Book containing late seventeenth century culinary and medical recipes
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Book containing late seventeenth century culinary and medical recipes

ca.1690

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

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A cookery book mainly compiled by Mary Wyld

Wyld, Mary

c.1797

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

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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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Recipe book compiled by various hands from various sources, 1778-1809
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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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A commonplace book once in the possession of the Farside family

Farside Family

c.1785-1809

Contains (1) transcripts of legal documents originally dated 1764-1771, and (2) miscellaneous veterinary, medical and household recipes, mainly of Yorkshire origin, ca.1785-1809.

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

1731-1839?

Ff.1-5: medical recipes. Ff.426-72: La Pratica del Distillatore e / Confettiere Italiano. Opera di Gioseffantonio / Landvini ... Nuova edizione migliorata / Milano / Presso Giovanni Silvestri. Cucinie...

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

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Various culinary receipts compiled by Dorothy Darby
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Various culinary receipts compiled by Dorothy Darby

Darby, Dorothy

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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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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Recipe book compiled by Isabella Fenwick
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Recipe book compiled by Isabella Fenwick

Fenwick, Isabella (1699-1745)

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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Cookery book, compiled by Antonius Ricettius, gastronomicus

Ricettius, Antonius

c.1750

A collection of recipes

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French cookery book
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French cookery book

16--

Two pages of French verse, followed by 15 pages of recipes apparently in unrhymed verse

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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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Cookery book, compiled by Hermano Joan Bagues
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Cookery book, compiled by Hermano Joan Bagues

Bagues, Hermano Joan

1777?

Treatise on cookery and description of Catalan dishes

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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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