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Total number of records: 4889

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	4703
Archives	186

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Cookery Collection	4670
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture	115
Brotherton Collection	49
Herbert Read Collection	37
Leeds Russian Archive	18
Liddle Collection	3
English Literature	3
Incunabula	3
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	1
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
cooking	1526
cooking, english	1085
cooking, french	393
food	236
home economics	212
cooking, british	180
recipes	164
international cooking	163
cooking, chinese	160
cooking, american	133

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Great Britain	11
England	10
France	8
Italy	7
Paris (France)	4
London (England)	4
China	3
Mexico	3
Yorkshire (England)	3
Liguria (Italy)	3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Heath, Ambrose (1891-1969)	60
Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)	50
Glasse, Hannah (1708-1770)	50
Patten, Marguerite	38
Raffald, Elizabeth (1733-1781)	37
Soyer, Alexis (1809-1858)	33
Good Housekeeping Institute (Great Britain)	32
British Broadcasting Corporation	30
Simon, Andre Louis (1877-1970)	28
Craig, Elizabeth (1883-1980)	27

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1400	3
From 1500	24
From 1600	80
From 1700	362
From 1800	691
From 1900	3470
From 2000	240

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1499	3
Up to 1599	24
Up to 1699	74
Up to 1799	336
Up to 1899	624
Up to 1999	3272
Up to latest	537

Archive File:
MS 438

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

Archive File:
MS 46

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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MS 462

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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MS 506

An anonymous collection of cookery, household and medical recipes, mid-17th to later 18th century

c.1650-c.1800

Includes recipes from Lady Corke (probably Elizabeth Clifford, d.1690/1, wife of 2nd earl) (f.132); from Lord Justice Willes (1685-1761) (f.10); from the Gentleman's Magazine, 1760 (f.130); and a pres...

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MS 51

Cookery book

17--

An alphabetical thumb index of ingredients precedes the recipe collection. At the other end of the volume, inverted, are tables of fish and wine appropriate to each month of the year

Archive Series:
MS 24

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...

Archive File:
MS 161

English cookery books from 1500 to 1900: a bibliography, by John Preston

c. 1962?

Contains detailed bibliographical descriptions of selected items

Archive File:
MS 163

English cookery books, 1500 to 1900: a bibliography, by John F. Preston

c. 1962

The bibliography takes the form of a synoptic list of some 1,500 items, for the most part arranged chronologically. Also present are "Contents of case no. 1"; a handlist of the John F. Preston cookery...

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MS 366

A cookery book mainly compiled by Mary Wyld

c.1797

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

Archive File:
MS 461

An anonymous recipe book with the title 'Instructions in cookery' and some additional recipes in other hands

Eighteenth Century

Also known as:Instructions in cookery

Archive File:
MS 463

Various culinary receipts compiled by Dorothy Darby

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

Recipe book compiled by Isabella Fenwick

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.