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Total number of records: 160

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	111
Archives	49

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Cookery Collection	144
Brotherton Collection	11
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	6
English Literature	1
Leeds Russian Archive	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
recipes	160
cooking	79
cooking, english	54
home economics	52
medicine	21
medicine, popular	15
commonplace-books	9
brewing	8
agriculture	7
english poetry	7

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)	9
Salmon, William (1644-1713)	6
Harrison, Sarah (1777-)	5
Smith, E (1732)	4
Radcliffe, M	4
W. M	4
Ruscelli, Girolamo	3
Alessio Piemontese	3
Ward, William (1534-1609)	3
Eaton, Mary	3

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1500	3
From 1600	22
From 1700	70
From 1800	65

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1599	3
Up to 1699	17
Up to 1799	65
Up to 1899	75

Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1058

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...

Archive Series:
MS 24

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...

Archive File:
MS 1680

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)

Archive File:
MS 1694

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...

Archive File:
MS 328

Book containing late seventeenth century culinary and medical recipes

ca.1690

In 3 different hands. Bound in leather, with modern pencilled foliation

Archive File:
MS 366

A cookery book mainly compiled by Mary Wyld

c.1797

Cookery book, with the sources of some of the recipes noted

Archive File:
MS 438

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

Archive File:
MS 447

A commonplace book once in the possession of the 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.

Archive File:
MS 460

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

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

Archive File:
MS 461

An anonymous recipe book with the title 'Instructions in cookery' and some additional recipes in other hands

Eighteenth Century

Also known as:Instructions in cookery

Archive File:
MS 462

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...

Archive File:
MS 463

Various culinary receipts compiled by Dorothy Darby

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 '...