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Secretes. Or soueraigne receipts well experimented and tryed / by diuerse authours contaynynge notable remedies agaynste diuers sicknesses and diseases, wounds, and other accidents, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, dyings, colours, and meltings: with many other artificiall sciences, very profitable for euery man.
Alessio, Piemontese, approximately 1471- Secreti. Part 1. EnglishDate: 1562
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The compleat cook : expertly prescribing the most ready wayes, whether Italian, Spanish, or French, for dressing of flesh, and fish, ordering of sauces, or making of pastry.
Date: 1662
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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 authors, with a necessary table in the ende, containying all the matters treated of in this present worke. Englished by Wylliam Warde.
Girolamo RuscelliDate: [1566]
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The gentlewoman's delight in cookery : containing the newest art of dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, or fish, either roasted, boiled, baked, stewed, fryed, broyled, hasht or frigaced. Together with the true way of raising paste, and making pyes, pasties, tarts, cakes, custards, &c. Also how to make all sorts of broths, caudles, syrups, jellies; and the exact way of making divers sorts of pickles, &c. Likewise directions for garnishing, serving up, and setting out a table; ... To which is added, the art of preserving, conserving, and candying all sorts of fruits, flowers, buds, roots, herbs, &c. With a most excellent receipt for making beautifying water to clear the face, neck, hands, & whiten the skin. Very beneficial for all young gentlewomen and servant-maids. Licensed according to order.
Date: [1690?]
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A verye excellent and profitable booke conteyning sixe hundred foure score and odde experienced medicines : appertayning vn to physicke and surgerie, long time practysed of the expert and reuerende Mayster Alexis, which he termeth the fourth and finall booke of his secretes ... Translated out of Italian into Englishe, by Richard Androse.
Girolamo RuscelliDate: 1578
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Dictionarium domesticum, being a new and compleat houshold [sic] dictionary, for the use both of city and country ... / By N. Bailey.
Nathan BaileyDate: 1736
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Delightes for ladies : to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories, with beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters.
Hugh PlatDate: 1611
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The cook's guide: or, Rare receipts for cookery : Published and set forth particularly for ladies and gentlwomen; being very beneficial for all those that desire the true way of dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowles, and fish; the best directions for all manner of kickshaws, and the most ho-good sawces: whereby noble persons and others in their hospitalities may be gratified in their gusto's. Never before printed. By Hannah Wolley.
Hannah WoolleyDate: 1664
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A Queens delight, or, The art of preserving, conserving and candying : as also, a right knowledge of making perfumes, and distilling the most excellent waters : never before published.
Date: 1671
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The compleat cook: or, the whole art of cookery : Describing the best and newest ways of ordering and dressing all sorts of flesh, fish, and fowl, whether boiled, baked, stewed, roasted, broiled, frigacied, fryed, souc'd, marrinated, or pickled; with their proper sauces and garnishes. Together vvith all manner of the most approved soops and potages used, either in England or France. By T.P. J.P. R.C. N.B. and several other approved cooks of London and Westminster.
Date: 1694
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A Book of fruits & flovvers : 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 sort 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, and snow, craknels, caudels, cakes, broths, fritter-stuffe, puddings, tarts, syrupes, and sallets. 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, to take the ague out of any place burning or scalding; for the stopping of suddain bleeding, curing the piles, ulcers, ruptures, coughs, consumptions, and killing of warts, to dissolve the stone, killing the ring-worme, emroids, and dropsie, paine in the ears and teeth, deafnesse.
Date: 1653
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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 : To which is added, a second part, containing a great number of excellent receipts, for preserving and conserving of sweetmeats, &c. / By several hands.
Kettilby, MaryDate: M.DCC.XXIV [1724]
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A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions: unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant hours : Being receipts and conceits of several natures, and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water. And fire-works of service for sea and shore. Whereunto is added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Likewise directions for ringing the most usual peals, that belong to that art. Collected by J. W. a lover of artificial conclusions.
John WhiteDate: 1677
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Delightes for ladies : to adorne their persons, tables, closets and distillatories. With beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters.
Hugh PlatDate: 1603
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A thousand notable things, of sundry sortes : Wherof some are wonderfull, some straunge, some pleasant, diuers necessary, a great sort profitable and many very precious.
Thomas LuptonDate: [1579]
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The boke of secretes of Albartus Magnus : of the vertues of herbes, stones and certaine beastes. Also, a boke of the same author, of the maruaylous thinges of the world: and of certaine effectes, caused of certayne beastes.
Date: MDXXU [i.e. 1565?]
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A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions, unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits : Being receits and conceits of several natures, and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water. And fire-works of service, for sea and shore. Whereunto are added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Together with several curious receits of great use, collected out of Alexis, Mizaldus, Wecker, &c. / By John White a lover of artificial conclusions.
John WhiteDate: 1689
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Delights for ladies : to adorn their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories. With beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters. Read, practice, and censure.
Hugh PlatDate: 1647
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Delightes for ladies to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories : with beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters.
Hugh PlatDate: 1602
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Preserving on paper : seventeenth-century Englishwomen's receipt books / edited by Kristine Kowalchuk.
Date: [2017]
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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.
John PartridgeDate: Anno. 1584
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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.
Hannah WoolleyDate: 1685
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The Complete family-piece and, Country gentleman ; and, Farmer's best guide : in three parts : with a complete alphabetical index to each part.
Date: 1741
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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.
John PartridgeDate: 1627
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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.
Thomas LuptonDate: Anno M DC XXXI. [1631]