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cooking, english266
cooking190
home economics152
cooking, french71
gastronomy69
recipes62
confectionery46
food45
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Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)77
Soyer, Alexis (1809-1858)38
Kitchiner, William (1775?-1827)29
Careme, M A (1784-1833)29
Acton, Eliza (1799-1859)23
Francatelli, Charles Elme (1805-1876)21
Lady16
Fayot, Charles Frederic Alfred15
Jarrin, W A (1784-1848)15
Fayot, Charles Frederic Alfred (1797-1861)15

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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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Manuscript notebook owned by Nanny Gummersall containing recipes

1824-1881

A manuscript notebook containing recipes, religious extracts and an account of a journey to Scotland in 1834. The book originally belonged to Nanny Clayton from Bierley in Bradford. She started the...

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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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Cookery book
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Cookery book

c.1805

At one end of the book are cookery receipts, medicinal remedies, and instructions for general household management, preceded at the beginning by a poem in a later hand and, after some blank pages, an ...

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

18--

A collection of recipes

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

18--

A collection of cookery and general household recipes

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

c.1837-1857

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

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

18--

A collection of cookery and general household recipes

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An anonymous recipe book containing culinary, medical and household recipes and memoranda, probably of Guernsey origin
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An anonymous recipe book containing culinary, medical and household recipes and memoranda, probably of Guernsey origin

18--?

Recipe attributed to Mr. Geddins, store-keeper of Fort St. George, 1836 (f. 17r.); list of ailments of the writer's children, 1820-1829 (ff. 18v.-19r.); form of bond for Sarah Gibbons, St. Peter Port,...

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