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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
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...
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...
An anonymous collection of cookery, household and medical recipes, mid-17th to later 18th century
c.1650-c.1800
Includes recipes and prescriptions 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 (...
English cookery books from 1500 to 1900: a bibliography, by John Preston
Preston, John F
c. 1962?
Contains detailed bibliographical descriptions of selected items
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...
An anonymous mid-nineteenth century recipe book, in several hands
Swainson family
1868-1887
The writers of the recipe book are unknown. Leather-bound ruled exercise book, with pages numbered 1-150 in a contemporary hand, with occasional blank pages and pp.114-158 blank; some loose inserts....
A cookery book mainly compiled by Mary Wyld
Wyld, Mary
c.1797
Cookery book, with the sources of some of the recipes noted
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
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 '...
Recipe book compiled by Isabella Fenwick
Fenwick, Isabella (1699-1745)
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.
Cookery book, compiled by Hermano Joan Bagues
Bagues, Hermano Joan
1777?
Treatise on cookery and description of Catalan dishes