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Total number of records: 160

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items111
Archives49

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Cookery Collection144
Brotherton Collection11
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse6
English Literature1
Leeds Russian Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
recipes160
cooking79
cooking, english54
home economics52
medicine21
medicine, popular15
commonplace-books9
brewing8
agriculture7
english poetry7

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)9
Salmon, William (1644-1713)6
Harrison, Sarah (1777-)5
Smith, E (1732)4
Radcliffe, M4
W. M4
Ruscelli, Girolamo3
Alessio Piemontese3
Ward, William (1534-1609)3
Eaton, Mary3

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GUDGEON Collection

1847-1868

Gudgeon family commonplace and accounts book, Marfin Brod, St Petersburg etc, 1847-1869 /1/. Homemade French-Russian vocabulary book /2/. Postal and other receipts, 1854-1868 and nd /3-9/. Recipes, li...

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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
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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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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 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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Commonplace book containing culinary recipes and various household directions, in various hands, commenced by Jane Bolt in 1694 and completed by M.P. Gutch in 1841

Bolt, Jane

1694-1841

Text from f.33v to end inverted; signature of M.P. Gutch on f.1r; signatures of Jane Bolt on ff.1r and 2r; recipes dated 1840 on ff.1v and 2v and dated 1841 on ff.96r and v

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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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