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Total number of records: 2241

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Books and printed items2188
Archives52
Objects1

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Cookery Collection2241
Incunabula1

Top 10: Subject

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

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France10
England8
Rome6
London (England)2
Greece2
Great Britain2
Vienna (Austria)1
Rome (Italy)1
Arabian Peninsula1
India1

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People and organisationsCount
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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From 1600238
From 1700652
From 18001240

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Archive Collection

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
Archive File

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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