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cooking, english406
cooking294
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recipes107
cooking, french82
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confectionery71
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Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)58
Careme, M A (1784-1833)29
Raffald, Elizabeth (1733-1781)29
Acton, Eliza (1799-1859)24
Soyer, Alexis (1809-1858)23
Francatelli, Charles Elme (1805-1876)22
Senn, Charles Herman (1862-1934)22
Glasse, Hannah (1708-1770)21
Beeton, Mrs (1836-1865)16
Kenney-Herbert, A R (1840-1916)16

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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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Catalogue entries of foreign cookery books, compiled by John Hodgkin
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Catalogue entries of foreign cookery books, compiled by John Hodgkin

Hodgkin, John (bibliographer)

c.1930

Austrian and Swiss cookery books are included in the list

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Account book of domestic expenditure, mainly on foodstuffs, 1752-1755
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Account book of domestic expenditure, mainly on foodstuffs, 1752-1755

1752-1755

Ff.135-141 are sewn in loosely at the end, the stub of the former f.142 being visible

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Catalogue entries of cookery and housekeeping books in all languages, commencing with Latin, compiled by John Hodgkin
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Catalogue entries of cookery and housekeeping books in all languages, commencing with Latin, compiled by John Hodgkin

Hodgkin, John (bibliographer)

c.1930

On long slips of paper cut from foolscap sheet and held together with string

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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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Cookery book
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Cookery book

1731-1839?

Ff.1-5: medical recipes. Ff.426-72: La Pratica del Distillatore e / Confettiere Italiano. Opera di Gioseffantonio / Landvini ... Nuova edizione migliorata / Milano / Presso Giovanni Silvestri. Cucinie...

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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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Recipe book compiled by Isabella Fenwick
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Recipe book compiled by Isabella Fenwick

Fenwick, Isabella (1699-1745)

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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