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Total number of records: 212

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items144
Archives68

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Cookery Collection194
Brotherton Collection13
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse6
Herbert Read Collection2
Leeds Russian Archive1
English Literature1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
recipes212
cooking102
home economics66
cooking, english66
medicine23
medicine, popular15
commonplace-books9
brewing8
english poetry7
agriculture7

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hodgkin, John (Bibliographer)11
Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)9
Salmon, William (1644-1713)6
Harrison, Sarah (1777-)5
Smith, E (1732)4
W. M4
Radcliffe, M4
Dudley, Georgiana Elizabeth Ward Countess of4
Hughson, David (1813)3
Macdonald, Duncan (1800-)3

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From 15003
From 160022
From 170070
From 180070
From 190047

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Up to 169917
Up to 179965
Up to 189975
Up to 199952

Archive Sub-collection

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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Catalogue of English cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin
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Catalogue of English cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin

Hodgkin, John (bibliographer)

c.1930

Black octavo note-book, lettered: Where is it?

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Catalogue of French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin
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Catalogue of French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin

Hodgkin, John (bibliographer)

c.1920

Black octavo note-book, with several blank leaves and a short index

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Abridged catalogue entries of English cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin
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Catalogue entries of English cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin
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Catalogue entries of English cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin

Hodgkin, John (bibliographer)

c.1930

On long slips of paper cut from foolscap sheet

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Cookery book compiled ca.1914 by Magdalen (Lena) Fraser Bennet and Alice Agnes Dean Bennet, of Ibrox, Glasgow
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Cookery book compiled ca.1914 by Magdalen (Lena) Fraser Bennet and Alice Agnes Dean Bennet, of Ibrox, Glasgow

Bennet, Magdalen Fraser (1875-1962)

c.1914

Mainly in pencil; loosely sewn into a limp cloth wrapper originally part of a different volume and bearing in gold stamp 'The Scottish Temperance League Register 1914'; partially paginated (f.1r = p.3...

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