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Total number of records: 13

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Books and printed items12
Archives1

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medicine, popular13
canning and preserving6
cooking5
cooking, english5
beauty, personal2
fishing2
gardening2
brewing1
recipes1

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Woolley, Hannah (1670-)2
Cole, Mary (1788-)1
Corke, Lady1
Plat, Hugh1
Plat, Sir Hugh (1552-1611?)1
Willes, Sir (1685-1761)1

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A closet for ladies and gentlewomen, Or, the art of preserving, conserving, and candyin. With the manner how to make diverse kindes of syrupes, and all kinde of banqueting stuffes. Also divers soveraigne medicines and salues for sundry diseases

Plat, Sir Hugh (1552-1611?)

1611

Title and each page of text in ornamental border. Error in paging: p. 179 misnumbered 176. Anon. Attributed to Sir Hugh Platt by Bitting.

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The accomplish'd lady's delight, in preserving, physick, beautifying, cookery, and gardening : containing I. The art of preserving... II. The physical cabinet ... III. The compleat cook's guide ... IV. The female angler ... V. The ladky's diversion in her garden ... [etc.]

Woolley, Hannah (fl. 1670)

1719

Added, engraved t.p., illustrated with title: The accomplisht ladys delight, in preserving physick, beautifying and cookery. Author identified by Wing as Hannah Woolley.

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The accomplish'd lady's delight, in preserving, physick, beautifying, cookery, and gardening : containing I. The art of preserving... II. The physical cabinet ... III. The compleat cook's guide ... IV. The female angler ... V. The ladky's diversion in her garden ... [etc.]

Woolley, Hannah (fl. 1670)

1719

Added, engraved t.p., illustrated with title: The accomplisht ladys delight, in preserving physick, beautifying and cookery. Author identified by Wing as Hannah Woolley.

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An anonymous collection of cookery, household and medical recipes, mid-17th to later 18th century
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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 (...

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