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Total number of records: 85

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Books and printed items62
Archives23

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Cookery Collection73
Brotherton Collection9
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse5

Top 10: Subject

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recipes85
cooking49
cooking, english30
medicine14
medicine, popular11
home economics8
agriculture7
brewing7
english poetry5
commonplace-books5

Top 10: People and organisations

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Salmon, William (1644-1713)6
Harrison, Sarah (1777-)5
W. M4
Smith, E (1732)4
Glasse, Hannah (1708-1770)3
Ruscelli, Girolamo3
Plat, Sir Hugh (1552-1611?)3
Raffald, Elizabeth (1733-1781)3
Ruscelli, Girolamo (1565)3
Ward, William3

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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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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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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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Cookery book

17--

An alphabetical thumb index of ingredients precedes the recipe collection. At the other end of the volume, inverted, are tables of fish and wine appropriate to each month of the year

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Recipe book, compiled by Edward Dalton
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Recipe book, compiled by Edward Dalton

Dalton, Edward

c.1750

A collection of 148 recipes, together with lists of the order of dishes and an index

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