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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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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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Cookery book
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Cookery book

c.1847

A collection of cookery and medicinal recipes

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

18--

A collection of cookery and medicinal recipes

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

18--

A collection of recipes, mainly medical

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A book of culinary and medicinal recipes in various hands
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A book of culinary and medicinal recipes in various hands

17--

Original pagination to the end of the text only; pp.81-2 missing and a hiatus in the text. Thumb index, ff.1-5, extended from front fly-leaf; ff.54 to end, blank. Dated 1769 on f.35r. Signatures: 'Mar...

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

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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

1825

A collection of cookery recipes, notes on household management, and medical remedies

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

c.1850

Contents at one end comprise a collection of cookery recipes (pp.1-137) preceded by an index. At the other endm inverted, is a collection of medicinal and household recipes

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

18--

A collection of cookery and medicinal recipes in various hands, and, at the other end of the book, inverted, a collection of receipts and accounts

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