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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 ... [etc.].
Peckham, Ann.Date: [1780?]
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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, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts. And also fifty receipts for different articles of perfumery. With a copious index / by Mrs. Glasse.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: 1789
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The ladies delight: or, A rich closet of choice experiments & curiosities : containing the art of preserving & candying both fruits and flowers : together with The great cook; or, The art of dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish. / By Hannah Wooley. ; To which is added: The ladies physical closet: or, Excellent receipts, and rare waters for beautifying the face and body.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1672
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A choice manuall, or, Rare and select secrets in physick and chyrurgery : collected, and practised by the Right Honourable, the Countesse of Kent, late deceased. Whereto are added several experiments of the vertue of Gascon powder, and lapis contra yarvam by a professor of physick. As also most exquisite waies of preserving, conserving, candying &c.
Kent, Elizabeth Grey, Countess of, 1581-1651Date: 1659
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Delights for ladies : to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories with beauties, banquets, perfumes, and waters.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1635
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The English hous-wife : containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman ... : a work generally approved, and now the sixth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this nation / by G.M.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1656
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A proper new booke of cookery : Declaryng what manner of meates is best in season, for all tymes in the yeare, [and] how they ought to be dressed and serued at the table both for flesh daies and fyshe dayes, with a new addition, very necessary for all them that delight in cookery, anno domini, 1576.
Date: [1576]]
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The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, house-keepers, cooks, &c. ... consisting of several hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print / by Elizabeth Raffald.
Raffald, Elizabeth, 1733-1781.Date: 1807
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Salt and fishery : a discourse thereof insisting on the following heads : 1) the several ways of making salt in England, and foreign parts, 2) the character and qualities good and bad, of these several sorts of salt, English refin'd asserted to be much better than any foreign, 3) the catching and curing, or salting of the most eminent or staple sorts of fish, for long or short keeping, 4) the salting of flesh, 5) the cookery of fish and flesh, 6) extraordinary experments in preserving butter, flesh, fish, fowl, fruit, and roots, fresh and sweet, for long keeping, 7) the case and sufferings of the saltworkers, 8) proposals for their relief, and for the advancement of the fishery, the woollen, tin, and divers other manufactures / by John Collins.
Collins, John, 1625-1683Date: 1682
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The good husvvifes iewell : VVherein is to he [sic] found most excellend [sic] and rare deuises for conceites in cookery, found out by the practise of Thomas Dawson. Wherevnto is adioyned sundry approued receits for many soueraine oyles, and the way to distill many precious waters, with diuers approued medicines for many diseases. Also certain approued points of husbandry, very necessary for all husbandmen to know.
Dawson, ThomasDate: [1596]
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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. [Dedication signed by the editor, S. Pegge the Elder].
Pegge, Samuel, 1704-1796.Date: 1780
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The Queens closet opened : incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving and candying, &c., which were presented unto the Queen by the most experienced persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem, when she pleased to descend to private recreations.
W. MDate: 1674
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The universal cook, and city and country housekeeper : Containing all the various branches of cookery ... Together with directions for baking bread, the management of poultry and dairy, and the kitchen and fruit garden; with a catalogue of the various articles in season in the different months of the year. Besides a variety of useful and interesting tables. The whole embellished with the heads of the authors, bills of fare for every month in the year, and proper subjects for the improvement of the art of carving, elegantly engraved on fourteen copper-plates / By Francis Collingwood, and John Woollams, principal cooks at the Crown and anchor tavern.
Collingwood, Francis.Date: 1801
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The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c. : Written purely from practice ... Consisting of near nine hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print ... [etc.].
Raffald, Elizabeth, 1733-1781.Date: 1799
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The treasurie of commodious conceits, & hidden secrets : and may be called, the huswiues closet, of healthfull prouision. Mete and necessarie for the profitable vse of all estates both men and women: and also pleasaunt for recreation, with a necessary table of all things herein contayned. Gathered out of sundrye experiments lately practised by men of great knowledge. By I. Par.
Partridge, John, active 1566-1573Date: 1573
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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.
Date: 1780
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A nevv booke of cookerie : VVherein is set forth the newest and most commendable fashion for dressing or sowcing, eyther flesh, fish, or fowle. Together with making of all forts of iellyes, and other made-dishes for seruice; both to beautifie and adorne eyther nobleman or gentlemans table. Hereunto also is added the most exquisite London cookerie. All set forth according to the now, new, English and French fashion. Set forth by the obseruation of a traueller. I.M.
Murrell, John, active 17th centuryDate: 1615
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The accomplisht cook, or The art and mystery of cookery : Wherein the whole art is revealed in a more easie and perfect method, then hath been publisht in any language. Expert and ready wayes for the dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowl, and fish, with variety of sauces proper for each of them; and how to raise all manner of pastes; the best directions for all sorts of kickshaws; also the tearms of carving and sewing. An exact account of all dishes for all seasons of the year, with other a la mode curiosities. The second edition, with large additions throughout the whole work; besides two hundred figures of several forms for all manner of bake't meats, (either flesh or fish) as pyes, tarts, custards, cheesecakes, and florentines, placed in tables and directed to the pages they appertain to. Approved by the fifty five years experience and industry of Robert May, in his attendance on several persons of great honour.
May, Robert, 1588-Date: 1665
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The English art of cookery, according to the present practice : being a complete guide to all housekeepers, on a plan entirely new ... With bills of fare for every month in the year, neatly and correctly engraved on twelve copper-plates / by Richard Briggs ... [etc.].
Briggs, Richard.Date: 1788
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A noble boke off cookry ffor a prynce houssolde or eny other estately houssolde : reprinted verbatim from a rare ms. in the Holkham collection / edited by Mrs. Alexander Napier.
Date: 1882
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The queens closet opened : incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving and candying, &c. Which were presented unto the queen by the most experienced persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem, when she pleased to descend to provate recreations.
W. MDate: 1663
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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, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts. Also, the order of a bill of fare for each month, in the manner the dishes are to be placed upon the table, in the present taste. And also, fifty receipts for different articles of perfumery. With a copious index / by Mrs. Glasse.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: 1799
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A choice manuall, or Rare and select secrets in physick and chyrurgery / collected, and practised by the Right Honourable, the Countesse of Kent, late deceased. ; Whereto are added several experiments of the virtue of Gascon pouder, and lapis contra yarvam, by a professor of physick. ; As also most exquisite waies of preserving, conseiving [sic], candying, &c.
Kent, Elizabeth Grey, Countess of, 1581-1651Date: 1667
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The closet of the eminently learned Sir Kenelme Digby, Kt. opened : whereby is discovered several ways for making of metheglin, sider, cherry-wine, &c. : together with excellent directions for cookery : as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c.
Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665Date: 1671
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A booke of cookerie and the order of meates to bee serued to the table, both for flesh and fish dayes : With many excellent wayes for the dressing of all vsuall sortes of meates ... Likewise for making many precious waters, with diuers approued medicines for grieuous diseases. With certaine points of husbandry.
Dawson, ThomasDate: 1629