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Total number of records: 150

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Books and printed items111
Archives39

Count of Collection group

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Cookery Collection135
Brotherton Collection4
Herbert Read Collection2
English Literature1
Leeds Russian Archive1

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SubjectCount
recipes119
home economics60
cooking53
cooking, english38
formulas, recipes, etc26
medicine8
carving (meat, etc.)5
workshop recipes5
cooking (gelatin)4
medicine, popular4

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Hodgkin, John (Bibliographer)11
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)10
Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)9
Radcliffe, M4
Davis Gelatine (Australia) Limited4
Dudley, Georgiana Elizabeth Ward Countess of4
Hughson, David (1813)3
Macdonald, Duncan (1800-)3
Acton, Eliza (1799-1859)3
Eaton, Mary3

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From 180086
From 190064

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Up to 199971
Up to latest2

Archive Collection

Whitfield family bakery, of Idle, near Bradford, notebooks and related material

Whitfield, Martha Ann (1865-1924)

c.1883-2000

Includes 1 sheet of photographs; 1 sheet of typscript notes; 1 notebook belonging to Martha Ann Whitfield, containing recipes used in the bakery; 2 notebooks belonging to Harriet Heggs (née Barker); ...

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GUDGEON Collection

1847-1868

Gudgeon family commonplace and accounts book, Marfin Brod, St Petersburg etc, 1847-1869 /1/. Homemade French-Russian vocabulary book /2/. Postal and other receipts, 1854-1868 and nd /3-9/. Recipes, li...

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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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Cookery book
Archive File

Cookery book

18--

A collection of recipes

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

c.1837-1857

A collection of recipes (pp.7-71), and extracts from the Bible (pp.262-76)

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Recipe book, compiled by Mrs R.A. Aldred
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Recipe book, compiled by Mrs R.A. Aldred

Aldred, R A

c.1900

A collection of cookery recipes

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

18--

Nine cookery recipes, followed by 35 blank pages. Contents note on front cover by Mrs Blanche Leigh

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An anonymous collection of culinary and medical receipts
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An anonymous collection of culinary and medical receipts

18--

Pages 1-129 contain culinary receipts; pages 130-137 contain medical receipts; (pp.9-14; 23-24; 28-30; 42-44; 56-58; 68-70; 75-78;91-108; 119-129; 138-148 are blank)

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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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