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The compleat cook; or, The secrets of a seventeenth century housewife; compiled and introduced by Madeleine Masson; illustrated by Pamela Lander; original research material by Anthony Vaughan.

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London, Routledge and K. Paul, 1974.

1974

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Stere htt well: a book of medieval refinements, recipes and remedies, from a manuscript in Samuel Pepys's library; with a foreword and modern English version by Gerald A. J. Hodgett and an introduction by Delia Smith.

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London, Cornmarket Press, 1972.

1972

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To the King's taste : Richard II's book of feasts and recipes adapted for modern cooking / by Lorna J. Sass.

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[New York] : Metropolitan Museum of Art : St. Martin's/Marek, c1975.

1975

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Martha Washington's Booke of cookery / transcribed by Karen Hess with historical notes and copious annotations.

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New York : Columbia University Press, 1981.

1981

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FormatBook/TextCall number*R-RMRR TX705 .M368 1981Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference

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The Town & country cook, or, Young woman's best guide, in the whole art of cookery : giving particular directions for roasting, boiling, broiling, frying, and stewing; and the most approved methods of making hashes, sauces, gravies, fricassees, soups, &c. &c. : together with the whole art of pastry; and the choicest receipts for cakes, &c. : to which are added many other particulars.

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London : Printed for W. Lane, Leadenhall-Street, and sold by all other booksellers, [178-?]

1780-1789

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The art of cookery made plain and easy : which far exceeds any thing of the kind yet published ... : to which are added, by way of appendix, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts, and a copious index / by a lady.

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London : Printed for A. Millar [and 5 others], 1767.

1767

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The art of cookery made plain and easy : which far excels any thing of the kind yet published ... : in which are included, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts, not inserted in any former edition : with a copious index / by Mrs. Glasse.

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London : Printed for T. Longman [and 23 others], l796.

1796

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The art of cookery made plain and easy : which far excels any thing of the kind yet published ... : in which are included, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts not inserted in any former edition : with a copious index / by Mrs. Glasse.

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London : Printed for J. Johnson [and 23 others], 1803.

1803

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FormatBook/TextCall number*KF 1803 89-640 Helen Hay Whitney CollectionItem locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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An Ordinance of pottage : an edition of the fifteenth century culinary recipes in Yale University's MS Beinecke 163 / edited by Constance B. Hieatt : with a commentary on the recipes and adapted vesions for the modern kitchen ; and with drawings from Medieval sources by Eulalia Pensado.

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London : Prospect ; Charlottesville, Va. : Distributed in the USA by the University Press of Virginia, 1988.

1988

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Receipts of pastry & cookery : for the use of his scholars / Edward Kidder ; edited by David E. Schoonover.

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Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1993.

1993

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The accomplisht cook, or, The art and mystery of cookery / Robert May ; a facsimile of the 1685 edition, with foreword, introduction and glossary supplied by Alan Davidson, Marcus Bell and Tom Jaine, and a list of subscribers to this edition.

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Totnes : Prospect Books, 1994.

1994-1685

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Receipts relating to physick and surgery : those marked with M.P. experienced by My Lady Duchess, ca. 1750.

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1750

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A collection of receipts in cookery, physick and surgery : for the use of all good wives, tender mothers, and careful nurses / by several hands.

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Philad'a. : Printed for Henry Morris and sold by City Wide Press, 1958.

1958-1724

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSchlosser 535Item locationSchwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Curye on Inglysch : English culinary manuscripts of the fourteenth century (including the Forme of cury) / edited by Constance B. Hieatt and Sharon Butler.

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London ; New York : Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1985.

1985

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Dorset dishes of the 17th century, edited by J. Stevens Cox.

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St. Peter Port, Toucan P., 1967.

1967

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The forme of cury : a roll of ancient English cookery, compiled, about A.D. 1390, by the master-cooks of King Richard II, presented afterwards to Queen Elizabeth, by Edward Lord Stafford, and now in the possession of Gustavus Brander, Esq. / illustrated with notes, and a copious index, or glossary ; a manuscript of the editor, of the same age and subject, with other congruous matters, are subjoined.

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London : Printed by J. Nichols, printer to the Society of Antiquaries, 1780 [i.e. 1785].

1785

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The gentlewomans companion, or, A guide to the female sex : containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age: viz. ... : with letters and discourses upon all occasions : whereunto is added, A guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service : the whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general / by Hannah Woolley.

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London : Printed by T.J. for Edward Thomas, at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain, 1682.

1682

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The summer's amusement, or, The young ladies companion : containing above one hundred and fifty of the choicest modern receipts, as practis'd by the author ...

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Newcastle : Printed by W. Cuthbert, for the author, and sold by Mr. Barber at the head of the flesh-market, and the rest of the booksellers of Newcastle, 1746.

1746

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John Evelyn, cook : the manuscript receipt book of John Evelyn / edited by Christopher Driver.

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Blackawton, Totnes, Devon : Prospect Books, 1997.

1997

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A new present for a servant-maid : containing rules for her moral conduct, both with respect to herself and her superiors : the whole art of cookery, pickling, preserving, &c., &c., and every other direction necessary to be known in order to render her a complete, useful, and valuable servant : in ten books ... : with marketing tables, and tables for casting-up expences, &c : the whole interspersed with a great number of receipts, never before published / by Mrs. Haywood.

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London : Printed for G. Pearch ... and H. Gardner, 1771.

1771

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The complete practical cook, or, A new system of the whole art and mystery of cookery : being a select collection of above five hundred recipes for dressing, after the most curious and elegant manner (as well foreign as English) all kinds of flesh, fish, fowl, &c ... : with the best rules for preserving, potting, pickling, &c. : fitted for all occasions, but more especially for the most grand and sumptuous entertainments : adorned with sixty curious copper plates, exhibiting the full seasons of the year, and tables proper for every month ... : approved by divers of the prime nobility ... / by Charles Carter, lately cook to His Grace the Duke of Argyll ...

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London : Printed for W. Meadows ... C. Rivington ... and R. Hett ..., 1730.

1730

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The compleat confectioner, or, The art of candying and preserving in its utmost perfection / by the late Mrs. Eales, confectioner to King William and Queen Ann.

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London : Printed for R. Montagu ..., 1742.

1742

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The professed cook, or, The modern art of cookery, pastry, and confectionary, made plain and easy : consisting of the most approved methods in the French as well as English cookery, in which the French names of all the different dishes are given and explained, whereby every bill of fare becomes intelligible and familiar ... : including a translation of Les soupers de la cour, with the addition of the best receipts which have ever appeared in the French or English languages, and adapted to the London markets / by B. Clermont ....

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London : Printed for W. Davis ...; T. Caslon ...; G. Robinson ...; F. Newberry ...; and the author ..., 1776.

1776

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FormatBook/TextCall number*KU 00-288Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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The family magazine : in two parts ...

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London : Printed for J. Osborn, 1741.

1741

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FormatBook/TextCall number*KU 00-277Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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The complete English cook, or, Prudent housewife : being, a collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery, with directions for roasting, boiling, stewing ... : together with directions for placing dishes on tables of entertainment, and many other things equally necessary : the whole made easy to the meanest capacity, and far more useful to young beginners than any book of the kind extant / by Ann Peckham, of Leeds, well known to have been for more than forty years one of the most noted cooks in the county of York.

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Leeds : Printed for Griffith Wright and John Binns: and sold by G. Robinson, and Fielding and Walker ... J. Wallis ... London; and all other booksellers in town and country, [1775?]

1775

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FormatBook/TextCall number*KU 01-238Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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The practice of cookery, pastry, confectionary, pickling, preserving, &c. : containing figures of dinners, from five to nineteen dishes, a full list of supper dishes, a list of things in season, for every month in the year, and directions for choosing provisions : with two copper plates, showing the manner of placing dishes upon a table, and of trussing poultry, &c. / by Mrs. Frazer, teacher of these arts in Edinburgh.

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Edinburgh : Printed for Peter Hill, and Vernor and Hood, London, 1795.

1795

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FormatBook/TextCall number*KU 00-292Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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The British cook's companion : being a collection of four hundred of the newest and best receipts ... : adorned with copper plates, setting forth the manner of placing dishes upon tables : the proper seasons for fish, fowls and rabbets; with bills of fare for every month in the year, receipts for twenty-five different sorts of puddings, and one, excellent for curing the spleen : fitted for the use of all publick and private families / by Henry Howard, free cook of London.

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London : Printed for R. Knaplock, D. Midwinter, J. Knapton, B. Lintot, J. Osborn, A. Bettesworth, B. Sprint, W. Innys, R. Robinson, and A. Ward, 1729.

1729

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The complete housewife, or, Accomplished gentlewoman's companion : being a collection of upwards of seven hundred of the most approved receipts ... : with copper plates, curiously engraven, for the regular disposition or placing of the various dishes and courses : and also bills of fare for every month in the year : to which is added, a collection of above three hundred receipts of medicines ... : with directions for marketing / by E. Smith.

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London : Printed for J. Buckland, J. and F. Rivington, J. Hinton, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, T. Lowndes, S. Bladon, W. Nicoll, C. and R. Ware, 1773.

1773

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The complete house-keeper, and professed cook : calculated for the greater ease and assistance of ladies, house-keepers, cooks, &c. &c. : containing upwards of seven hundred practical and approved receipts ... / by Mary Smith, late house-keeper to Sir Walter Blackett, bart. ...

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Newcastle : Printed by T. Slack, for the author, 1772.

1772

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The complete house-keeper, and professed cook : calculated for the greater ease and assistance of ladies, house-keepers, cooks, &c., &c : containing upwards of seven hundred practical and approved receipts ... / by Mary Smith, late house-keeper to Sir Walter Blackett, Bart.

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Newcastle : Printed for S. Hodgson, and G.G.J. and J. Robinson ... London, 1786.

1786

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FormatBook/TextCall number*KU 01-247Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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The good housewife, or, Cookery reformed : containing a select number of the best receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, candying, pickling, &c : together with a distinct account of the nature of amiments / collected from the most approved authors, and from the papers of several gentlemen and ladies eminent for their good sense and oeconomy ...

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London : Printed for P. Davey and B. Law, 1756.

1756

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FormatBook/TextCall number*KU 00-295Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Cookery, and pastry : as taught and practised by Mrs. MacIver, teacher of those arts in Edinburgh.

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Edinburgh : Printed for the author, and sold by her, at her house, Stephen Law's Close, back of the City-Guard, 1782.

1782

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FormatBook/TextCall number*KU 01-228Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c. : wrote purely from practice ... consisting of near nine hundred original recipes, most of which never appeared in print ... / by Elizabeth Raffald.

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London : Printed for the author, and sold by R. Baldwin ..., 1773.

1773

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FormatBook/TextCall number*KU 01-240Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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The experienced English housekeeper, for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c ...

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London, T. Wilson and R. Spence, printers, 1805.

1805

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The Queens closet opened : being incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, and candying &c., which were presented to the Queen by the most experienc'd persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem when she pleased to descend to private recreations.

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London : Printed for E. Blagrave, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1696.

1696

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