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Total number of records: 1092

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Books and printed items1083
Archives9

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Cookery Collection1065
Brotherton Collection16
Herbert Read Collection10
Liddle Collection1

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cooking, english1092
cooking133
home economics94
recipes66
menus54
medicine28
medicine, popular28
cooking, french13
brewing11
dinners and dining11

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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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Country kitchen

Bissell, Frances

2002

Originally published: London : Macmillan, 1996.

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Meat

James, Fiona

2002

Supported by funding from The Meat and Livestock Commission, Food from Britain and DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs).

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The Sunday Telegraph cookery book

Robertson, Jean writer on food; Robertson, Andrew

1965

"A Sunday Telegraph publication."

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The Lancashire cookery book : being a collection of recipes for cookery classes, which are well adapted for home use

Oldham School Board

[1903]

Published by permission of the Oldham School Board. Catalogued from publisher's advertisement at foot of p.70.

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Digitised copy available on the Internet Archive as part of the UK Medical Heritage Library Project
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English housewifery : exemplified in above four hundred and fifty receipts, giving directions in most parts of cookery

Moxon, Elizabeth

1804

Includes "English housewifery improved; or A supplement to Moxon's cookery... collected by a person of judgment, with corrections and additions" (p.[195] ff.), with own title-page.

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A true gentlewomans delight : wherein is contained all manner of cookery: together with preserving, conserving, drying, and candying, very necessary for all ladies and gentlewomen

Kent, Elizabeth Grey Countess of (1581-1651); Jar, W

1653

Attributed to Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kent, by Wing (2nd ed.). Issued with 'A choice manual of rare and select secrets in physick'. "W.I." is W. Jar. Includes index.

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A true gentlewomans delight : wherein is contained all manner of cookery: together with preserving, conserving, drying, and candying, very necessary for all ladies and gentlewomen

Kent, Elizabeth Grey Countess of (1581-1651); Jar, W

1659

Attributed to Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kent, by Wing (2nd ed.). Issued with 'A choice manual of rare and select secrets in physick'; signatures are continuous throughout both works.

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A true gentlewomans delight : wherein is contained all manner of cookery: together with preserving, conserving, drying, and candying, very necessary for all ladies and gentlewomen

Kent, Elizabeth Grey Countess of (1581-1651); Jar, W

1687

Attributed to Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kent, by Wing (2nd ed.). Issued with 'A choice manual of rare and select secrets in physick'; signatures are continous throughout both works. Includes ind...

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