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Archive Collection:
MS 2280

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.

Archive Series:
MS 24

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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MS 1680

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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MS 1694

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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MS 2222

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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MS 240

1865

Loose sheet containing a further account is inserted

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MS 328

ca.1690

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

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MS 366

c.1797

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

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MS 423

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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MS 426

1561

ff.1r and 7r-12v are blank

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MS 438

1778-1809

Private sources of recipes include many in the Knaresborough area; published sources include several Yorkshire newspapers

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MS 447

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.