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Total number of records: 939

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Books and printed items915
Archives23
Objects1

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Cookery Collection939
Incunabula1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
cooking, english247
cooking196
recipes73
medicine56
cooking, french51
home economics45
medicine, popular42
food35
gardening28
agriculture27

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Rome6
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France3
Greece2
Rome (Italy)1
Italy1
Arabian Peninsula1

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Glasse, Hannah (1708-1770)46
Raffald, Elizabeth (1733-1781)28
Menon22
Smith, E (1732)18
W. M17
Moxon, Elizabeth15
Apicius15
Lemery, Louis (1677-1743)14
Johnson, Richard13
Massialot, Francois (1660-1733)13

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From 1600235
From 1700594

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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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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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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 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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