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Total number of records: 1243

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Books and printed items1202
Archives41

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cooking, english326
cooking203
home economics141
recipes81
gastronomy61
cooking, french60
confectionery54
menus45
food36
dinners and dining25

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Great Britain2
Rome2
Vienna (Austria)1
Greece1
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People and organisationsCount
Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)57
Careme, M A (1784-1833)29
Raffald, Elizabeth (1733-1781)29
Soyer, Alexis (1809-1858)23
Acton, Eliza (1799-1859)22
Glasse, Hannah (1708-1770)21
Francatelli, Charles Elme (1805-1876)21
Lady16
Jarrin, W A (1784-1848)15
Johnson, Richard (1793)15

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From 1800993

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Recipes for cookery and household remedies
Archive Series

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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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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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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Cookery book
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Cookery book

1731-1839?

Ff.1-5: medical recipes. Ff.426-72: La Pratica del Distillatore e / Confettiere Italiano. Opera di Gioseffantonio / Landvini ... Nuova edizione migliorata / Milano / Presso Giovanni Silvestri. Cucinie...

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An anonymous recipe book, including some recipes from Surrey and Yorkshire
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An anonymous recipe book, including some recipes from Surrey and Yorkshire

c.1800

Also known as:Recipe book Sources of recipes include: Mrs Page of Streatham and Sheen (ff.6r, 7v, 12r, 15r, and 17v); Mrs Brooksbank of Yorkshire and 'Healaugh' [presumably Philippa Brooksbank (d.184...

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Various culinary receipts compiled by Dorothy Darby
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Various culinary receipts compiled by Dorothy Darby

Darby, Dorothy

c.1800

Watermark, 'R. Glover 1798', ff. 1 and 2. Inscriptions: front paste-down, 'Dorothy Darby's Cyphering Book'; back paste-down, 'Dorothy Darby, Hadley Green, near Barnet, Middlesex'. Folios bearing her '...

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Liberal living for men of limited means, by a Miserly Old Bachelor
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Liberal living for men of limited means, by a Miserly Old Bachelor

Miserly Old Bachelor

c.1876

A scrapbook of press-cuttings containing culinary recipes and household hints, interspersed with further recipes in manuscript and preceded by an essay on eating houses in London and notes on kitchen ...

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