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Archives44
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Cookery Collection64
Brotherton Collection8
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse4
Leeds Russian Archive1

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recipes77
cooking44
home economics28
cooking, english21
medicine13
commonplace-books6
english poetry5
agriculture4
fishing4
hunting4

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Hodgkin, John (Bibliographer)11
Smith, E (1732)4
Alessio Piemontese3
Hughson, David (1813)3
Macdonald, Duncan (1800-)3
Ruscelli, Girolamo3
Ruscelli, Girolamo (1565)3
Ward, William3
Ward, William (1534-1609)3
E Kidder2

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Archive Sub-collection

GUDGEON Collection

1847-1868

Gudgeon family commonplace and accounts book, Marfin Brod, St Petersburg etc, 1847-1869 /1/. Homemade French-Russian vocabulary book /2/. Postal and other receipts, 1854-1868 and nd /3-9/. Recipes, li...

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An anonymous collection of culinary and medical receipts
Archive File

An anonymous collection of culinary and medical receipts

18--

Pages 1-129 contain culinary receipts; pages 130-137 contain medical receipts; (pp.9-14; 23-24; 28-30; 42-44; 56-58; 68-70; 75-78;91-108; 119-129; 138-148 are blank)

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Folk recipes collected by Thomas Henry Booth Bedford
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Folk recipes collected by Thomas Henry Booth Bedford

Bedford, Thomas Henry Booth (1898-1961)

1941

Miscellaneous letters containing recipes, especially for barley and oat cakes, collected mostly in Northumberland: (1) Recipes for scones and oat cakes, n.d.; (2) Letter from E. Bell, Bellingham, 8 Oc...

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Catalogue of a collection of cookery books, compiled by John Hodgkin
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Catalogue of a collection of cookery books, compiled by John Hodgkin

Hodgkin, John (bibliographer)

c.1930

Entries of books on cookery and house-keeping numbered 1-1361, as follows: Vol.1. Nos.1-155, A.,E. to Broderip, Francis Freeling; Vol.2. Nos.156-311, Brooks, Catharine to De Frederic, M.J.N.; Vol.3. N...

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Recipes and household hints collected by Dorothy Mary Leak
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Recipes and household hints collected by Dorothy Mary Leak

Leak, Dorothy Mary (1903-1989)

c.1920-1939

Some items are written in various hands, others are press-cuttings from the 'Yorkshire Evening Post', or extracts from Dorothy Leak's copy of 'Beeton's everyday cookery' (London, [ca.1888]). All are m...

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BC MS Lt 96, f. 119v:
Archive Item

Commonplace book of poetry and prose in English and Latin, written amongst a collection of medical recipes.

c.1710-1750

Contains 64 English poems, mainly eighteenth-century and satirical, or religious, together with Latin poetry and prose, some medical recipes, and a few stanzas of classical Greek poetry at the end.

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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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A collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick and surgery : for the use of all good wives, tender mothers, and careful nurses

Kettilby, Mary

1719

Remainder of t.p.: "To which is added, a second part, containing a great number of excellent receipts, for preserving and conserving of sweet-meats, &c." Part 2 has separate title-page and paginatio...

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A collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick and surgery : for the use of all good wives, tender mothers, and careful nurses

Kettilby, Mary

1719

Remainder of t.p.: "To which is added, a second part, containing a great number of excellent receipts, for preserving and conserving of sweet-meats, &c." Part 2 has separate title-page and paginatio...

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

c.1847

A collection of cookery and medicinal recipes

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