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The country brewer's assistant, and English Vintner's Instructor, in two parts. Part the first treating 1. The choice of Water, 2. Grinding the Malt, 3. Use and Nature of the Hops, 4. Instructions for private Families, 5. Brewling good Small-Beer. 6. General Instructions for brewing, 7. Mashing. 8. Cooling and Working, 9. Casking the Drink. Part the second Containing general Instructions for making English Wines, exemplified in a select Number of original choice Receipts for producing excellent Wines from the following British Fruits, Herbs, and Flowers: Grapes, Raspberries, Mulberries, Currants, Cherries, Gooseberries, Quinces, Damsins, Apricots, Elder Berries, Birch, Sage, Cowslips, Gilliflowers, Strawberries, Blackberries. To which are added, Two excellent Receipts for making Orange and Palermo Wines, With Instructions for making (after the most improved Method) Mead, Cyder, and Metheglin, The celebrated Irish and Green Usquebaughs, The admired Brunswick Mum (taken from the Record in the Town-House at Brunswick,) And the genuine Receipt for making Dr. Stevens's justly-famous Cordial Water. With an appendix, containing the Distiller's Assistant. By George Edmonds.
Edmonds, George, active 1769.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Digital Images
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Dog rose (Rosa canina): flowering stem. Wat
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A small man representing the press is holding a spoon with a gooseberry on it and feeding it to John Bull; representing worthless news stories in the British press during the summer. Process print after Ricardo Brook.
Brook, Ricardo.Reference: 31780i- Pictures
Gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa): fruiting stem. Watercolour.
Reference: 21084i- Books
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The Britannian magazine: or, A new art of making above twenty sorts of English wines : viz, of apples, pears, peaches, cherries, plums, sloes, damasins, quinces, figgs, gooseberries, mulberries, currens, blackberries, elderberries, roses, carnations, cowslips, scurvy-grass, mint, and balm, &c. More pleasant and agreeable to the English constitution than those of France. With the way of making brandy and other spirits: as likewise how to make artificial clarets, renith, &c. The third edition. To which is added, The foundation of the art of distillation: or the true and genuine way of making malt into low-wines, proof-spirits, and brandy-wines, compliant to the late act of Parliament concerning distillation. By W.Y. M.D.
Y-Worth, W. (William)Date: [1700]- Books
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The family dictionary; or, Houshold companion : containing, in an alphabetical method, I. Directions for cookery, in dressing flesh, fowl, fish, herbs, roots, &c. Seasoning, making sauces, bills of fare, art of carving, &c. II. Making all sorts of pastry ware, and things made of meal, flower, whether bak'd, boyled, or fried, &c. III. Making of conserves, candies, preserves, confects, lozenges, gellies, creams, pickles, &c. IV. The making all kinds of potable liquors, as ales, meads, metheglin, English wines of cherries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries, &c. Cyder, cyder-royal, usquebaugh, cordial waters. V. The making of all sorts of rare perfumes, sweet balls, pouders, admirable washes, beatifying waters, oils, essences, pomatums. VI. The virtues and uses of the most usual herbs and plants, their roots, barks, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, used in physick. ... The second edition, corrected and much enlarged. By William Salmon, professor of physick.
Salmon, William, 1644-1713Date: 1696- Pictures
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Four British wild flowers and fruit, including red currant (Ribes rubrum), black currant (Ribes nigrum) and gooseberry (Ribes uva-crispa). Coloured lithograph, c. 1856, after H. Humphreys.
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.Date: [1856]Reference: 24640i- Pictures
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Five figures showing fruit, pericarps and seeds of a gooseberry, fir cone and wallflower. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819.Date: 31 August 1802Reference: 24237i- Books
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The way to get wealth; or, an easie way to make wine of gooseberries, currans, rasberries, Mulberries, Elderberries, Blackberries, Strawberries, Dewberries, Pears, Cherries, Peaches, Apricocks, Quinces, Plumbs, Damsons, Figs, Cowslips, Scurvygrass, Mint, Morella, Bawm, Apples and Roses, Equal to that of France, with their Physical Virtues: Also to make Cyder, Mead, Rum, Rack. The true Art of Distilling of Brandy, Strong Waters, Cordial Waters: To make Pickles and divers sorts of Vinegars; The Mistery of Confectioners: To recover Wine damaged; Physical Receipts of our Modern Doctors for most Diseases. To help a bad Memory, so that you may remember all that you ever read or do: To make all your wearing Apparel keep out Rain tho' never so great Showers; The Duty of all sorts of Servant Maids, with Directions to Dress Flesh, Fish and Fowl. To Encrease Peas, Beans, Wheat, Barley exceedingly, so that you may have a Treble Crop; To make China Varnish, and Black Ground for Japan Work; To black Wood, Gild: To make Coffee, Tea, Chocolate; A Help to Discourse, and divers Curiosities, of B. Portae, Alexis, and others; by the author of The way to save wealth, and also of a Thousand notable things.
Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.Date: [1702]- Books
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The family-dictionary; or, Houshold companion : wherein are alphabetically laid down exact rules and choice physical receipts for the preservation of health, prevention of sickness, and curing the several diseases, distempers, and grievances, incident to men, women, and children. Also, directions for making oils, ointments, salves, cordial-waters, powders, pills, bolus's, lozenges, chymical preparations, physical-wines, ales, and other liquors, &c. and descriptions of the virtues of herbs, fruits, flowers, seeds, roots, barks, minerals, and parts of living creatures, used in medicinal potions, &c. Likewise, directions for cookery, in dressing flesh, fish, fowl, seasoning, garnishing, sauces, and serving-up in the best and most acceptable manner. The whole art of pastry, conserving, preserving, candying, confectioning, &c. Also, the way of making all sorts of perfumes, beautifying-waters, pomatums, washes, sweet-balls, sweet-bags, and essences: taking spots and stains out of garments, linen, &c. and preserving them from moths, &c. Washing point, sarsnets, and restoring faded linen; and scowering, or brightning tarnished gold, or silver lace, plate, &c. Together, vvith the art of making all sorts of English vvines, as currants, cherries, gooseberries, and cyder, mead, metheglin, &c. And the art of fining, and recovering foul and faded wines. The mystery of pickling, and keeping all sorts of pickles throughout the year. To which is added, as an appendix, the explanation of physical terms, bills of fare in all seasons of the year. With the art of carving. And many other useful matters. / By J.H.
Salmon, William, 1644-1713Date: [between 1600 and 1699?]- Ephemera
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Patisserie Valerie : now you can order online www.patisserie-valerie.co.uk / Patisserie Valerie.
Patisserie Valerie.Date: [2008]- Ephemera
Bottle fruit fresh with Snap vacuum closures in ordinary jam jars / Graham Farish Ltd.
Graham Farish Ltd.Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]- Books
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Me Peter Rappee, wo was sarvant to a parson that kept a mousturd mill and ground snuff, having larnt the bisness, took a shop and parlar ware I sells gooseberrys, black puddings, ...
Wilson's Tobacco and Snuff Manufactory (London, England)Date: 1786]- Books
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The caterpillars and the gooseberry bush, or a true figure of the bad passions and their Mischievous Effects; together With a brief account of their origin and cure, in three dialogues, between a father and his son, Designed for the Instruction of youth.
Clowes, J. (John), 1743-1831.Date: 1800- Digital Images
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Grey mould (Botrytis cinerea) on strawberries
Macroscopic Solutions- Archives and manuscripts
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Cookery and Medical Recipe Book
Date: Late 17th century-18th centuryReference: MS.7892- Books
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Englands interest: or the gentleman and farmers friend. Shewing, I. How Land may be Improv'd from 20 s. to 8 l. and so to 100 l. per Acre, per Annum, with great Ease, and for an inconsiderable Charge. 2. How to make Cyder, Perry, [Cherry] Currant, Gooseberry and Mulberry Wines as Strong and Wholesome as French or Spanish Wines: And the Cyder and Wines so made to be Sold for 3d. per Quart, tho' as good as Wine now Sold for 18d. 3. The Best and Quickest way of Raising a Nursery. 4. Directions for Brewing the Finest Malt-Liquors, much Better and Cheaper than hitherto known: Shewing what Care is to be taken in the Choice of Water, Malt, and Hops; and how they are to be Mixed, Boyled and Fermented, for making the best March or October Beer, strong Ale, &c. 5. Instructions for Breeding Horses much Cheaper, and to a far greater Advantage than before known. 6. Of the Husbandry of Bees, and the great Benefit thereby. 7. Instructions for the Profitable Ordering of Fish-Ponds, and for Breeding of Fish. The second edition, with large additions. By Sir J. More.
Moore, Jonas, Sir, 1617-1679.Date: 1703- Pictures
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Gherkin (Cucumis anguria L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
Date: [1772]Reference: 16732i- Digital Images
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Watercolours of birds with fruit and flowering plants
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Stag gummed jam pot covers : complete with waxed tissues & title labels : 4d. 2 lb. size : a Dickinson product.
Dickinson Paper Group.Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: Late 19th centuryReference: WF/C/M/SL/09/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Digital Images
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Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)
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Vendors of various types of remedies consulting about a patient; the vendors represented by their respective treatments and the patient by a goose. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 183-.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [between 1830 and 1839]Reference: 11403i- Archives and manuscripts
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Receipt book of Anna-Maria Meysey junior
Anna-Maria Meysey d.1836, of Shakenhurst Hall, Worcestershire, daughter of Charles Meysey and married to Edmund Meysey-Wrigley.Date: c.1770-1814Reference: MS.8685- Pictures
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Vendors of various types of remedies consulting about a patient; the vendors represented by their respective treatments and the patient by a goose. Process print, 19--, after G. Cruikshank, 183-.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Reference: 21035i