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Total number of records: 1065

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Books and printed items1056
Archives9

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Cookery Collection1038
Brotherton Collection16
Herbert Read Collection10
Liddle Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
cooking, english1065
cooking130
home economics94
recipes66
menus54
medicine28
medicine, popular28
cooking, french13
brewing11
dinners and dining11

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England8
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Yorkshire (England)4
London (England)3
West Country (England)2
Cornwall (England : County)1
Cotswold Hills (England)1
Dorset (England)1
England, Northern1
Nottinghamshire (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Glasse, Hannah (1708-1770)46
Raffald, Elizabeth (1733-1781)37
Soyer, Alexis (1809-1858)27
Johnson, Richard22
Johnson, Richard (1793)22
Heath, Ambrose (1891-1969)18
Henderson, W A18
Moxon, Elizabeth18
Craig, Elizabeth (1883-1980)16
Smith, E (1732)16

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From 160032
From 1700243
From 1800305
From 1900484

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Take a buttock of beefe

Isitt, Verity

1989

Includes indexes. Includes recipes extracted from: The queen's closet opened. Cornhill : Printed for Nathaniel Brook, 1655.

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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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Brave new cooking

Frank, Katalin

[1943]

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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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Summer cooking

David, Elizabeth (1913-1992)

1965

Includes index.

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Good food : month by month recipes

Heath, Ambrose (1891-1969); Bawden, Edward (1903-1989)

1932

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The English cookery book

Nicoll, Mrs Lucie G

[1936]

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