Cookery Collection

A selection of images from the Cookery collection which dates from 1487 to the 21st century. The full collection is made up of approximately 8,000 printed volumes and contains over 60 manuscript recipe and household books.

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Abridged catalogue entries of English cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin (1) The accomplish'd ladies delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery : containing I. The art of preserving, and candying fruits and flowers... II. The physical cabinet ... III. The compleat cook's guide, or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish ... [etc.] (1) Account book of domestic expenditure, mainly on foodstuffs, 1752-1755 (1) American cookery (1) An anonymous collection of cookery, household and medical recipes, mid-17th to later 18th century (1) An anonymous collection of culinary and medical receipts (1) An anonymous draft essay or lecture on monasticism, apparently unfinished and presumably by Alexander Hamilton Thompson (1) An anonymous eighteenth-century recipe book containing culinary, medical and household recipes (1) An anonymous mid-nineteenth century recipe book, in several hands (1) An anonymous recipe book containing culinary, medical and household recipes and memoranda, probably of Guernsey origin (1) An anonymous recipe book, including some recipes from Surrey and Yorkshire (1) An anonymous recipe book with the title 'Instructions in cookery' and some additional recipes in other hands (1) Babylonian clay tablet (1) Bap. Platinae Cremonensis De honesta voluptate. De ratione victus, & modo viuendi. De natura rerum & arte coquendi libri X (1) Black-backed MS recipe book of Martha Ann Whitfield, (including recipes used in the bakery) (1) Board of Agriculture and Fisheries (1) Book containing late seventeenth century culinary and medical recipes (1) A book of cookrye: very necessary for all such as delight therein/ gathered by A. W. And now newlye enlarged with the serving in of the table. With the proper sauces to each of them convenient (1) A book of culinary and medicinal recipes in various hands (1) A book of fruits & flowers : shewing the nature and use of them, either for meat or medicine. As also: to preserve, conserve, candy, and in wedges, or dry them, to make powders, civet bagges, all sorts of sugar-works, turn'd works in sugar, hollow, or frutages, and to pickell them. And for meat, to make pyes, biscat, maid dishes, marchpanes, leeches... For medicines, to make all sorts of poultisses, and serecloaths for any member swell'd or inflamed, ointments, waters for all wounds, and cancers, salves for aches ... [etc.] (1) B. Platinae Cremonensis, De honesta voluptate. De ratione victus, & modo vivendi. De natura rerum & arte coquendi libri X (1) Canada. Department of Agriculture Flax fibre (1) Canada. Department of Agriculture Proceedings of a convention of Canadian flax growers held at London, Ontario (1) Canada. [Hansard] House of Commons debates (1) Canada. [Hansard} House of Commons debates (1) Canada. House of Commons Routine proceedings and orders of the day (1) Catalogue entries of cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin on British Museum Reading Room tickets (1) Catalogue entries of cookery and housekeeping books in all languages, commencing with Latin, compiled by John Hodgkin (1) Catalogue entries of English cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin (1) Catalogue entries of foreign cookery books, compiled by John Hodgkin (1) Catalogue of a collection of cookery books, compiled by John Hodgkin (1) Catalogue of English cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin (1) Catalogue of French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish cookery and housekeeping books, compiled by John Hodgkin (1) A collection of all the statutes now in force, relating to the excise upon beer, ale, and other liquors: with an abridgement of the said statutes, and a table of the rates upon the several liquors, &c. shewing by what acts they are imposed : to which is added, a table of allowances for common brewers, &c (1) Cookery book (15) Cookery book, compiled by Hermano Joan Bagues (1) Cookery book compiled ca.1914 by Magdalen (Lena) Fraser Bennet and Alice Agnes Dean Bennet, of Ibrox, Glasgow (1)

Dedonckele (Rene R) Linseed as a fibre plant in British East Africa (1) Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland (1) Dodge ( Charles Richards ) A Report on flax culture for fiber in the United States (1) Drinking, by Arnold Bennett (1) Dudgeon (Gerald Cecil) Experiment with flax growing at the government farm at Guemmeiza (1) Durand ( Albert ) La Linerie de Goderville (1) Eating, by Arnold Bennett (1) English cookery books, 1500 to 1900: a bibliography, by John F. Preston (1) English cookery books from 1500 to 1900: a bibliography, by John Preston (1) English translation of item (1) Expenses of the diets provided for the Council in Star Chamber at Westminster during Easter Term, 3 Eliz. I, 1561 (1) Eyre (John Vargas) Some minor farm crops (1) Eyre ( John Vargas ) The Isolation of improved strains of flax seed for sowing purposes (1) The family brewer or the art of brewing fully explained : containing all necessary directions for persons who wish to brew their own beer, whether strong or small; respecting malt, hops, water, &c. &c. with occasional remarks (1) The feminin' monarchi', or, The histori of bee's : shewing their admirable natur' and propertis, their generation and colonis, their government, loyalti, art, industri, enimi's, wars, magnanimiti, &c. Together with the right ordering of them from tim' to tim', and the sweet' profit arising ther'of (1) Flax growing [a survey of methods in Northern Ireland] (1) Folk recipes collected by Thomas Henry Booth Bedford (1) French cookery book (1) Good things made, said, and done, for every home & household (1) Good things made, said and done, for every home & household Ninth edition Leeds 1883 (1) Healths improvement; or, rules comprizing and discovering the nature, method, and manner of preparing all sorts of food used in this nation (1) The history and the science of drunkenness (1) The house-keeper's pocket-book, and compleat family cook : containing above seven hundred curious and uncommon receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, candying, collaring, &c. With plain and easy instructions for preparing and dressing every thing suitable for an elegant entertainment, from two dishes to five or ten, &c., and directions for ranging them in their proper order (1) Journal of the Board of Agriculture (1) Klinike or, The diet of the diseased : divided into three bookes. Wherein is set downe at length the whole matter and nature of diet for those in health, but especially for the sicke; the aire, and other elements; meat and drinke, with divers other things; various controversies concerning this subject are discussed: besides many pleasant practicall and historicall relations, both of the authors owne and other mens, &c. as by the argument of each booke, the contents of the chapters, and a large table, may easily appeare. Collected as well out of the writings of ancient philosophers, Greeke, Latine, and Arabian, and other moderne writers; as out of divers other authours (1) The ladies handmaid, or, A compleat system of cookery : on the principals of elegance and frugality... containing the best approved, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of housewifry ... Together with instructions for carving and bills of fare for every month in the year ... Also the best approved method of clear-starching (1) Le grand cuisinier, tres-utile, et profitable a tous : contenant la maniere d'habiller toutes sortes de viandes, tant chair que poisson, & de servir és banquets & festins. Avec memoire de faire escriteau, pour la service d'iceaux. Augmenté de la maniere de choisir & faire election des viandes, & fruicts contenuës en iceluy (1) Liberal living for men of limited means, by a Miserly Old Bachelor (1) A Loose-leaf binder containing miscellaneous notes on flax and related topics (1) A Loose-leaf ring-binder containing miscellaneous notes on flax (1) MacCracken ( James A) A Review of the status and possibilities of flax production and manipulation in Canada (1) A memorandum book containing notes on cookery and marketing, compiled 1924-1925 by Maude Mary Whittaker (1) Miles( Frank C) Fiber flax. Washington (1) The modern cook : containing instructions for preparing and ordering publick entertainments for the table of princes, ambassadors, noblemen and magistrates, as also, the least expensive methods of providing for private families, in a very elegant manner. New receipts for dressing of meat, foul, and fish, and making ragoûts, fricassées, and pastry of all sorts, in a method, never before publish'd (v.1) (1) Notebook containing extracts from booksellers' catalogue descriptions of cookery books, 1951-1957 (1) Notebook containing mostly recipes for confectionery, bread and cakes compiled by Maude Mary Whittaker, commenced on 23rd June 1914 (1) Ordinary dinner menu at the Prince of Wales Hotel and restaurant, Sidney Street, Cambridge; proprietor: Charles Adolphe Désiré Bruvet (1)

Overmann ( Leo ) Geschichtliche (1) A Packet of correspondence and documents on water analysis (1) A perfite platforme of a hoppe garden : and necessarie instructions for the making and mayntenaunce thereof : with notes and rules for reformation of all abuses commonly practiced therein (1) Platine viri celeberrimi De honesta voluptate ac valitudine libri decem q[uem] emendatissime impressi: cum nova tabula & indice (1) Platynae De honesta voluptate: et valitudine ad amplissimum ac Doctissimum.D.B. Roverllam.S.Clementis praesbiterum cardinalem liber primus (1) Presentation album containing menu, seating plan and autographs of diners at a dinner of the University of Leeds Senate Dining Club, in honour of Charles Richard Morris, Vice-Chancellor of the University, 3rd July 1963 (1) The private brewer's guide to the art of brewing ale and porter : particularly adapted to the use of the families of the nobility, gentry, farmers, and private brewers, with complete instructions for country victuallers who brew at home. Also, an account of drugs, tables of duties, laws of excise, the art of sweetening casks, instructions for making up spirits, purchasing wines, &c. On a plain and entire new plan (1) The queen-like closet, or rich cabinet : stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery, very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex (1) The Queens Closet opened : incomparable secrets in Physick, Chirurgery, Preserving, Candying and Cookery, as they were presented to the Queen. By the most experienced persons of our times, many whereof were honoured with her own practice, when she pleased to descend to these more private recreations. Never before published. Transcribed from the true copies of her Majesties own receipt books, by W.M., one of her late servants (1) Receipts of pastry and cookery for the use of his scholars, by Edward Kidder (1) Recipe book (1) Recipe Book (1) Recipe book, compiled by Edward Dalton (1) Recipe book compiled by Isabella Fenwick (1) Recipe book, compiled by Mrs R.A. Aldred (1) Recipe book compiled by various hands from various sources, 1778-1809 (2) Recipe book for the large scale production of cordials. (1) A recipe book in various hands, apparently of Yorkshire provenance, once belonging to Jane Beague [or Blague] (1) A recipe book in various hands, once in the possession of Mrs Green of Penblaith Farm, Llangarron, Herefordshire, from 1741 to 1764 (1) Recipe book known as 'Dame Mary Lister's household book' (1) Recipes and household hints collected by Dorothy Mary Leak (1) Recipes for cookery and household remedies (1) Regulations for the household of James I (1) Shelf-list of old cookery books in the possession of Mrs Blanche Leigh (1) Simpson (Hugh) Flax as a fibre plant in British East Africa (1) The true preserver and restorer of health : being a choice collection of select and experienced remedies for all distempers incident to men, women, and children : selected from and experienced by the most famous physicians and chyrurgeons in Europe. Together with excellent directions for cookery... With the description of an ingenious and useful engin for dressing of meat and for distilling the choicest cordial waters with-out wood coals, candle or oyl: published for the publick good (1) Two notebooks containing recipes, belonging to Harriet Heggs (nee Barker), niece of the Whitfield sisters. (1) United Kingdom patent specification no. 17073 (1) United Kingdom patent specification no. 17089 (1) United Kingdom patent specification no. 28764 (1) United Kingdom patent specification no. 6532 (1) Various culinary receipts compiled by Dorothy Darby (1) Warnes (John) On the cultivation of flax (1) Where is it?, compiled by John Hodgkin (1) Wigglesworth ( Edwin ) Notes of the growing & preparation of flax for fibre (1)