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Total number of records: 1123

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Archives39

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Cookery Collection1074
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture27
Brotherton Collection17
Herbert Read Collection10
Liddle Collection1
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cooking, english1085
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Glasse, Hannah (1708-1770)46
Raffald, Elizabeth (1733-1781)37
Soyer, Alexis (1809-1858)27
Johnson, Richard (1793)22
Johnson, Richard22
Henderson, W A18
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Heath, Ambrose (1891-1969)18
Craig, Elizabeth (1883-1980)16
Smith, E (1732)16

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An anonymous recipe book, including some recipes from Surrey and Yorkshire
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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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English cookery books from 1500 to 1900: a bibliography, by John Preston
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English cookery books from 1500 to 1900: a bibliography, by John Preston

Preston, John F

c. 1962?

Contains detailed bibliographical descriptions of selected items

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

Preston, John F

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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Receipts of pastry and cookery for the use of his scholars, by Edward Kidder
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Receipts of pastry and cookery for the use of his scholars, by Edward Kidder

Kidder, Edward

1702

A collection of recipes. Receipts are similar to, but not always identical with, those in the printed version

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Catalogue of English cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin
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Catalogue of English cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin

Hodgkin, John (bibliographer)

c.1930

Black octavo note-book, lettered: Where is it?

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Abridged catalogue entries of English cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin
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Catalogue entries of English cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin
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Catalogue entries of English cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin

Hodgkin, John (bibliographer)

c.1930

On long slips of paper cut from foolscap sheet

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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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Where is it?, compiled by John Hodgkin
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Where is it?, compiled by John Hodgkin

Hodgkin, John (bibliographer)

c.1930

Catalogue of English cookery and house-keeping books

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West Midlands Responses: Book V, Part 7

[1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book V, Part 7: Cooking. Includes questions V.7.1 Porridge - V.7.12 Pod.

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West Midlands Responses: Book V, Part 7

1960s]

Collated responses from the West Midland counties to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book V, Part 7: Cooking. Includes questions V.7.13 Peas/Pea - V.7.24 Removing Stalks.

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