Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 111 records

Total number of records: 111

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items85
Archives26

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Cookery Collection101
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture9
Brotherton Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
cooking111
home economics108
recipes26
food13
cooking, english10
home9
community life8
manners and customs7
nature7
culture7

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)23
Child, Lydia Maria Francis (1802-1880)6
Roberts, Emma4
Bradley, Martha4
Vicaire, Georges (1853-1921)4
Roberts, Emma (1794-1840)4
Hughson, David (1813)3
Hodgkin, John (Bibliographer)3
Praga, Mrs Alfred3
Ginisty, Paul (1855-1932)2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 16003
From 170012
From 180057
From 190038
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 16992
Up to 179912
Up to 189954
Up to 199941
Up to latest2

Archive File
A recipe book in various hands, once in the possession of Mrs Green of Penblaith Farm, Llangarron, Herefordshire, from 1741 to 1764
Archive File

A recipe book in various hands, once in the possession of Mrs Green of Penblaith Farm, Llangarron, Herefordshire, from 1741 to 1764

17--

Recipes supplied by: Ann Cutler (f.13r); Mrs Scammell (f.14r); Mr Davie (f.16r); Mrs Indmah (?) (f.17r); Mrs Chamberlain, Mrs Richardson (f.18r); Mrs Addams (f.18v); Mrs Green (ff.19v, 24r and 24v), a...

More details and larger image

Cookery book
Archive File

Cookery book

18--

A collection of cookery and general household recipes

More details and larger image

Cookery book
Archive File

Cookery book

18--

A collection of cookery and general household recipes

More details and larger image

Cookery book
Archive File

Cookery book

c.1851

A collection of cookery and general household recipes

More details and larger image

Cookery book
Archive File

Cookery book

18--

Contains: (1) 2 pp. index; (2) 50 pp. cookery and household recipes, the final 9 pp. being unnumbered

More details and larger image

Catalogue of a collection of cookery books, compiled by John Hodgkin
Archive File

Catalogue of a collection of cookery books, compiled by John Hodgkin

Hodgkin, John (bibliographer)

c.1930

Entries of books on cookery and house-keeping numbered 1-1361, as follows: Vol.1. Nos.1-155, A.,E. to Broderip, Francis Freeling; Vol.2. Nos.156-311, Brooks, Catharine to De Frederic, M.J.N.; Vol.3. N...

More details and larger image

Recipes and household hints collected by Dorothy Mary Leak
Archive File

Recipes and household hints collected by Dorothy Mary Leak

Leak, Dorothy Mary (1903-1989)

c.1920-1939

Some items are written in various hands, others are press-cuttings from the 'Yorkshire Evening Post', or extracts from Dorothy Leak's copy of 'Beeton's everyday cookery' (London, [ca.1888]). All are m...

More details and larger image

Cookery book compiled ca.1914 by Magdalen (Lena) Fraser Bennet and Alice Agnes Dean Bennet, of Ibrox, Glasgow
Archive File

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...

More details and larger image

Liberal living for men of limited means, by a Miserly Old Bachelor
Archive File

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 ...

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