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MS 438

1778-1809

Private sources of recipes include many in the Knaresborough area; published sources include several Yorkshire newspapers

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MS 447

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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MS 366

c.1797

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

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MS 461

Eighteenth Century

Also known as:Instructions in cookery

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MS 463

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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MS 465

c.1716

Inscription on f.36v, 'Isabella Fenwicks Booke May the 29 1716'. Conjugate leaf to f.3 missing. Inserted in pocket at end modern correspondence and notes about the item (1952-3), 5 ff.

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MS 52

c.1750

A collection of 148 recipes, together with lists of the order of dishes and an index

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MS 55

18--

A collection of recipes

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MS 57

c.1837-1857

A collection of recipes (pp.7-71), and extracts from the Bible (pp.262-76)

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MS 639

1771-1789

Anonymous notebook containing recipes, costings amd memoranda concerning wines, spirits, cordials and liqueurs, also a few medicinal recipes.

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MS 66

c.1900

A collection of cookery recipes

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MS 67

18--

Nine cookery recipes, followed by 35 blank pages. Contents note on front cover by Mrs Blanche Leigh