Skip to main content

Search the Cookery Collection

Results

1 to 12 of 1404 records

Total number of records: 1404

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items1331
Archives73

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
cooking290
cooking, english241
recipes195
home economics90
cooking, british63
cooking, french45
international cooking35
menus32
cooking, american31
bread22

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England4
Great Britain3
Portugal2
France2
Mexico1
Switzerland1
London (England)1
Paris (France)1
Rutland (England)1
Liguria (Italy)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Heath, Ambrose (1891-1969)24
Time-Life Books19
Craig, Elizabeth (1883-1980)15
Beeton, Mrs (1836-1865)13
British Broadcasting Corporation13
Good Housekeeping Institute (Great Britain)12
National Federation of Women'S Institutes11
Hodgkin, John (Bibliographer)11
Freeman, Bobby9
Radiation (Firm)9

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 160018
From 170074
From 1800183
From 19001023
From 200076

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 169913
Up to 179969
Up to 1899142
Up to 1999999
Up to latest152
An anonymous recipe book, including some recipes from Surrey and Yorkshire
Archive File

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...

More details and larger image

An anonymous eighteenth-century recipe book containing culinary, medical and household recipes
Archive File

An anonymous eighteenth-century recipe book containing culinary, medical and household recipes

17--

The book begins '[index] Almond'. Recipes are ascribed to 'Mrs. Gorden' (p.10), 'Raffald' (p.45), 'Miss Hall' (p.48), 'Mrs. Masterson' (p.198) and 'Mr. Webb' (p.226).

More details and larger image

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

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,...

More details and larger image


Archive Collection

Anne Hawtrey's recipe book

Hawtrey, Anne (1669-1727)

1689 - c.1750

Anne Hawtrey's recipe book. A cookery and medical recipe book from the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries.

More details

Recipes for cookery and household remedies
Archive Series

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...

More details and larger image


Archive File

Recipes in Verse

1980

Correspondence to and from Bateman and research for article on recipes written in verse, printed copy of John Keat’s Porridge by V McCabe, reference list for Recipes in Verse, typed and hand-written...

More details

Recipe Book
Archive File

Recipe Book

1771-1789

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

More details and larger image

Recipe book
Archive File

Recipe book

c.1651-1700

Recipe book containing medicinal and culinary recipes in various hands, once in the possession of Gertrude Holcroft

More details and larger image

Recipe book compiled by Isabella Fenwick
Archive File

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.

More details and larger image

Recipe book, compiled by Edward Dalton
Archive File

Recipe book, compiled by Edward Dalton

Dalton, Edward

c.1750

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

More details and larger image

Recipe book for the large scale production of cordials.
Archive File

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...

More details and larger image