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Total number of records: 9670

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items9669
Archives1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Cookery Collection9670
Incunabula1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
cooking1333
cooking, english1065
home economics442
cooking, french383
food381
gastronomy232
wine and wine making196
cooking, british177
menus168
international cooking161

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain53
England41
France29
London (England)18
Ireland12
Paris (France)10
Italy9
Rome7
Europe6
Scotland5

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Heath, Ambrose (1891-1969)92
Good Housekeeping Institute (Great Britain)85
Simon, Andre Louis (1877-1970)80
Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828)78
Sainsbury'S (Firm)71
Glasse, Hannah (1708-1770)59
Great Britain56
Patten, Marguerite55
Beeton, Mrs (1836-1865)47
British Broadcasting Corporation47

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Earliest dateCount
From 1500106
From 1600226
From 1700621
From 18001384
From 19006693
From 2000414

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1599104
Up to 1699225
Up to 1799569
Up to 18991239
Up to 19996453
Up to latest856

Archive Print Collection

Cookery Printed Books

Principally made up from two separate collections. Blanche Legat Leigh, Lady Mayoress of Leeds, made a gift in 1939 of cookery books which included not only historical works published in Britain but a...

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Margaretta Acworth's Georgian cookery book

Acworth, Margaretta (1794); Prochaska, Alice; Prochaska, F K; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1987

A selection of recipes from Public Record Office C107/108, with modernised verions and introduction.

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Digitised copy available on the Internet Archive as part of the UK Medical Heritage Library Project
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