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Total number of records: 16

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Cookery Collection15
Brotherton Collection1

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medicine, popular16
cooking10
recipes9
cooking, english4
home economics4
gardening2
sermons1
brewing1

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Millet-Robinet, Cora (1798-1890)2
Harrison, Sarah (1777-)2
Bellasis, Grace1
Markham, Gervase (1568?-1637)1
Weddell, George1
Willes, Sir (1685-1761)1
Woolley, Hannah (1670-)1
Lister, Dame Mary (1625-1635)1
Holcroft, Gertrude1
Fairfax Family1

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Recipes for cookery and household remedies
Recipes for cookery and household remedies

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An anonymous collection of culinary and medical receipts
An anonymous collection of culinary and medical receipts

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Book containing late seventeenth century culinary and medical recipes
Book containing late seventeenth century culinary and medical recipes

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An anonymous collection of cookery, household and medical recipes, mid-17th to later 18th century
An anonymous collection of cookery, household and medical recipes, mid-17th to later 18th century

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

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Recipe book known as 'Dame Mary Lister's household book'
Recipe book known as 'Dame Mary Lister's household book'

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Recipe book
Recipe book

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The family doctor : containing valuable secrets in medicine: being a collection of recipes for curing or relieving many diseases incident to the human frame
The family doctor : containing valuable secrets in medicine: being a collection of recipes for curing or relieving many diseases incident to the human frame

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The queen-like closet, or rich cabinet : stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery, very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex
The queen-like closet, or rich cabinet : stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery, very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex

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The house-keeper's pocket-book, and compleat family cook : containing above seven hundred curious and uncommon receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, candying, collaring, &c. With plain and easy instructions for preparing and dressing every thing suitable for an elegant entertainment, from two dishes to five or ten, &c., and directions for ranging them in their proper order
The house-keeper's pocket-book, and compleat family cook : containing above seven hundred curious and uncommon receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, candying, collaring, &c. With plain and easy instructions for preparing and dressing every thing suitable for an elegant entertainment, from two dishes to five or ten, &c., and directions for ranging them in their proper order

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The English house-wife : containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman, as her skill in physick, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A work generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome
The English house-wife : containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman, as her skill in physick, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preseruing of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hempe, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent vses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A work generally approued, and now the fourth time much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the generall good of this kingdome

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Arcana Fairfaxiana manuscripta : a manuscript volume of apothecaries' lore and housewifery nearly three centuries old
Arcana Fairfaxiana manuscripta : a manuscript volume of apothecaries' lore and housewifery nearly three centuries old

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