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Total number of records: 1378

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Archives50

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cooking1378
cooking, english130
recipes100
home economics98
food81
gastronomy59
cooking, french49
menus33
medicine, popular27
medicine25

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Liguria (Italy)3
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Switzerland2
Nice (France)2
France2
Provence (France)2
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Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)33
Patten, Marguerite24
Simon, Andre Louis (1877-1970)22
Wine and Food Society19
Great Britain13
Good Housekeeping Institute (Great Britain)13
Apicius13
Great Britain. Ministry of Food10
Garrett, Theodore Francis10
Mason, Charlotte10

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From 1700149
From 1800223
From 1900881
From 200070

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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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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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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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Notes on old cookery books, compiled by John Hodgkin

Hodgkin, John (bibliographer)

c.1925

The main manuscript contains five chapters devoted to old cookery books of particular interest, as follows: (1) ff.4-16: Ann Wallis: 1673; (2) ff.17-37: Mrs Windham: 1710; (3) ff. 38-60: Captain Thoma...

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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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