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Royal cookery: or the compleat court-cook. Containing the choicest receipts in all the several branches of cookery, viz. for making of Soops, Bisques, Olio's, Terrines, Surtouts, Puptons, Ragoos, Forc'd-Meats, Sauces, Patties, Pies, Tarts, Tansies, Cakes, Puddings, Jellies, &c. As likewise Forty Plates, curiously engraven on Copper, of the Magnificent Entertainments at Coronations and Instalments; of Balls, Weddings, &c. at Court; as likewise of City-Feasts. To which are added bills of fare for every month in the year. By Patrick Lamb, Esq; Near Fifty Years Master-Cook to their late Majesties King Charles II. King James II. King William and Queen Mary, and Queen Anne.
Lamb, Patrick.Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]- Books
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The way to get wealth, I. Directing how to make 23 sorts of English wine, equal to French, and cyder equal to Canary, to make wine of all sorts of herbs to make mead. rum, rack, mum, coffee, tea, chocolate, Butler's-ale, brandy, cordial waters, and 40 sorts of ale, in a minute; the mistery of vintners; ... receipts; to remember all you read or do; to make corn produce a trebble crop; or to make China varnish and black ground for Japan work to black wood and gild; directions for servant maids to dress fish, flesh and fowl. II. A help to discourse, giving an account of the commodities of all countries, inventors of arts and sciences, of the River Nilus, gardening &c. III. A book of knowledge for all persons, containing accounts cast up, rates of car, water and coachmen, to keep accompts, make bill- bonds, wills, receipts; recover bad debt, and compound them; to write letters; days ...; of sun rising and setting; and tide ebbin and flowing; make strops to set rivers; to preserve the eyes, and other rarities.
Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.Date: 1706- Books
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Delightes for ladies to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories : with beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1602- Books
Preserving on paper : seventeenth-century Englishwomen's receipt books / edited by Kristine Kowalchuk.
Date: [2017]- Books
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The accomplish'd female instructor: or, a very useful companion for ladies, gentlewomen, and others. In two parts. Part I. Treating of Generous Breeding and Behaviour; Choice of Company, Friendship; the Art of Speaking well, Directions in Love, Carriage in Company, Conversation, Affability, Courtesy and Humility; the Mystery of Eloquence. Of suitable Recreations, Modesty, Chastity, Religion, Charity, Compassion, Contentment of Mind, Devotion and Prayer. Part II. Treating of making curious Confectionaries, or Sweet-Meats, Jellies, Syrups, Cordial-Waters, Brandies, Wines of English Fruit, and other useful Liquors; to imitate Foreign Wines; to make Junkets, Spoon-Meats, and curious Pastery; to know good Provisions, Dye curious Colours, Whiten Ivory, Cement Glass, China or Metal; make Artificial Pearls or Precious Stones; to take out Spots or Stains, &c. to Paint, Japan, make Wax-Works, Rock-Work, or Works in Gold, Silk, Silver, &c. the Art of Perfuming and Preserving Cloaths from Vermin or Insects; Physical and Chyrurgical Receipts; with Directions for the Preservation of Health; to make curious Sawces, keep Flowers all the Year, Pickle all kind of useful things; cleanse Gold or Silver Lace; rare Experiments for Diversion, and a great Number of other useful and profitable things.
R. G.Date: [1704]- Books
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The treasury of commodious conceits, and hidden secrets : commonly called the good huswiues closet of prouision, for the health of hir housholde. Meete and necessarye for the profitable vse of al estates. Gathered out of sundrye experyments, lately practised by men of greate knowledge: and now amplified and inlarged with diuers necessary and newe additions.
Partridge, John, active 1566-1573Date: Anno. 1584- Books
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The accomplish'd ladies delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery : Containing I. The art of preserving, and candying fruits and flowers, and the making of all sorts of conserves, syrups, and jellies. II. The physical cabinet, or excellent receipts in physick and chirurgery, together with some rare beautifying waters, to adorn and add lovliness to the face and body: and also some new and excellent secrets and experiments in the art of angling. III. The compleat cooks guide, or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish, both in the English and French mode, with all sauces and sallets; and the making pyes, pasties, tarts, and custards, with the forms and shapes of many of them.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1685- Books
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The treasurie of hidden secrets: commonly called, The good-huswiues closet of prouision : for the health of her houshold. Gathered out of sundry experiments, lately practised by men of great knowledge: and now newly enlarged, with diuers necessary physicke helpes, and knowledge of the names and naturall disposition of diseases that most commonly happen to men and women.
Partridge, John, active 1566-1573Date: 1627- Books
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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. By several hands.
Kettilby, Mary.Date: MDCCXIX. [1719]- Books
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The useful and entertaining family miscellany: containing the complete English housekeeper's companion. In which are near five hundred receipts Cookery, Pastry, Preserving. Making Wines, Candying, and Pickling. With plain and very easy Instructions for chusing All Sorts of Eatables. Also, Directions for Carving, with several Cuts explaining in the easiest Manner the best Way of trussing Hares, and Fowls; with Forms of placing Disnes of a Table, either in the middling or genteelest Taste. By Mrs. Isabella Moore, Who was Twenty Years a worthy and frugal Housekeeper in a private Gentleman's Family at Duffield, near Derby. To which are added, the genuine receipts for compounding Mr. Ward's principal medicines. Also, Every One his own Physician, Being A complete Collection of efficacious Remedies For every Disease incident to the Human Body, with plain Instructions for their common Use; very necessary to be had in all Families, residin in the Country. Compiled at the Command of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. Likewise, the new English syren; or, delightful songster. Consisting of a Collection of One Hundred approv'd Songs, suited for those who delight in Harmony, Decency, and good Sense.
Moore, Isabella.Date: 1766- Books
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A thousand notable things of sundrie sorts : vvhereof some are wonderfull, some strange, some pleasant, diuers necessary, a great sort profitable, and many very precious.
Lupton, ThomasDate: Anno M DC XXXI. [1631]- Books
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The secrets of the reuerend Maister Alexis of Piemont : containing excellent remedies against diuerse diseases, wounds, and other accidents, with he maner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, dyings, colours, fusions, and meltings. A worke well approued, verie necessarie for euerie man. ... Translated out of French into English by William Ward.
Alessio, Piemontese, approximately 1471-Date: 1595- Books
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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 on five or ten, &c. and directions for ranging them in their proper order. To which is prefix'd, Such a copious and useful bill of fare of all manner of provisions in season for every month of the year, that ... need be at a loss to provide an agreeable variety of dishes, at a moderate expence. with directions for making all sorts of wings, mead, cyder, shrub, &c. and distilling strong-waters, &c. after the most approv'd method. ... with many excellent prescriptions, of singular [remedy] in most distempers incident to the human body; extracted from the writings of the most eminent physicians. By Mrs. Sarah Harrison, of Devonshire.
Harrison, Sarah, active 1733-1777.Date: 1763- Books
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The young ladies school of arts. Containing a great variety of practical receipts, in gum-flowers, filligree, japanning, Shell-Work, Gilding, Painting, Cosmetics, Jellies, Preserves, Cakes, Cordials, Creams, Jamms, Pickles, Candying, Made Wines, Clear Starching, &c together with directions for breeding canary birds, and breeding, nursing, and ordering of the silk-worm. Also a great many Curious Receipts, both useful and entertaining, never before published. By Mrs. Hannah Robertson.
Robertson, Hannah, 1724-1800?.Date: 1784- Books
I secreti de la signora Isabella Cortese, ne' qvali si contengono cose minerali, medicinali, arteficiose, et alchimiche, et molte de l'arte profumatoria ... Con altri bellissimi secreti aggiunti ... / [Isabella Cortese].
Cortese, Isabella, active 16th century.Date: 1565- Books
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A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions; unlock'd and opened, for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant houres : Being receits and conceits of severall natures, and fit for those who are lovers of naturall and artificiall conclusions. Whereunto is added variety of recreative fire-works, both for land, aire, and water. Also fire works of service, for sea and shore, very fitting for these warlike times of action. Collected by J.W. a lover of artificiall conclusions.
White, John, -1671Date: 1651- Books
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A precious treasury of twenty rare secrets : Most necessary, pleasant, and profitable for all sorts of people. / Published by Signier Francisco Dickinson an expert operator, and presumed to as good as any the best in all Europe.
Dickinson, FranciscoDate: 1649- Books
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The compleat housewife: or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of six hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery / With copper plates curiously engraven for the regular disposition or placing the various dishes and courses. And also bills of fare for every month of the year. To which is added a collection of above two hundred family receipts of medicines. By E---- S---- [i.e. Eliza Smith].
Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.Date: 1734- Books
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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- Books
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The true way of preserving and candying, and making several sorts of sweet-meats. According to the best and truest manner : Made publick for the benefit of all English ladies and gentlewomen; especially for my scholars.
Date: In the year, MDCXCV. [1695]- Books
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The housekeeper's instructor; or, universal family cook. Being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery in all its various branches. Containing proper directions for dressing all Kinds of Butcher's Meat, Poultry, Game, Fish, &c. Also, the Method of preparing Soups, Hashes, and Made Dishes; with The Whole Art of Confectionary, Pickling, Preserving, &c. Likewise The making and keeping in Perfection British Wines; and proper rules for brewing malt liquor, As well for Family Consumption as the Regale of private Visitants. To which is added, the complete art of carving, illustrated with engravings, Explaining, by proper References, the Manner in which the Young Practitioner may acquit himself at Table with Elegance and Ease. Also, bills of fare for every month in the year; With copper-plates displaying The Best Manner of decorating a Table; Whereby every Person will be enabled to add to the Art of Cookery the proper Disposition of each Article in its respective Season. Together with directions for marketing, and the management of the kitchen and fruit-garden. The Whole formed on so new a plan, that the Inexperienced will be instructed, and the professed Cook receive that Information which has never been made known by any preceding Publication. The fifth edition. By William Augustus Henderson, Who has made the Culinary Art his Study for upwards of Forty Years.
Henderson, W. A. (William Augustus)Date: [1795?]- Books
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The thyrde and last parte of the Secretes of the reuerende Maister Alexis of Piemont, by him collected out of diuers excellent authours, with a necessary table in the ende, conteyning all the matters treated of in this present worke. Englished by Wyllyam Warde.
Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565Date: 1562- Books
Valuable secrets concerning arts and trades ... Containing upwards of one thousand approved receipts relative to arts and trades.
Date: 1775- Books
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The experienced English housekeeper : for the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c. written purely from practice, and dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, whom the author lately served as housekeeper : consisting of near nine hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print ... [etc.].
Raffald, Elizabeth, 1733-1781.Date: 1786- Books
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Curiosa arcana: being curious secrets, artificial and natural. In three parts. Containing, in the first part, Choice receipts to prevent or cure the plague, agues, fevers, and all other distempers incident to man. Secrets in Japanning, painting, and varnishing, so as to imitate marble, Jasper-Stone, &c. To dye skins a sine black that never fades. Secrets in hunting, fishing, fowling, house-keeping. To cure diseases in horses, hogs, dogs, &c. To destroy all sorts of vermin in house or field. Directions to beautifie the face, and cure diseases in women and children. To make perfumes, cordial waters, snuffs, to preserve wine, with other secrets of that nature. To order gardens for fruit, flowers, &c. To make artificial pearl and jewels; also fire-works. Receipts in cookery, and to make Sweetmeats, &c. To take spots or stains out of linnen or woollen. To make divers forts of ink. In the second part, the art of moulding, and casting medals in lead, tin, silver, copper, plaister of Paris, wax, or otherwise, as well hollow as solid. In the third part, excellent secrets for beautifying and rendering the face lively and agreeable. With several choice and approved secrets for beautifying the body, in several particulars. Try'd and approv'd by the Sieur Lemery, apothecary to the French King. From the last edition in French; which contains near as much more as any other ormer edition. To which is added, a supplement of divers curiosities by the translator. The whole illustrated with copper plates, adapted to the several subjects.
Date: [1711]