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![The Queen's royal cookery ... With the art of preserving and candying of fruits and flowers; and the making of conserves, syrups, jellies, and cordial waters ... cosmetick or beautifying waters, etc / [T. Hall].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0027003/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![The Queen's royal cookery ... With the art of preserving and candying of fruits and flowers; and the making of conserves, syrups, jellies, and cordial waters ... cosmetick or beautifying waters, etc / [T. Hall].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0027004/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![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 [etc.] ... Part II. Treating of making curious confectionaries, or sweet-meats, jellies, syrups, cordial-waters ... to know good provisions, dye curious colours, whiten ivory ... physical and chyrurgical receipts ... and a great number of other useful and profitable things.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0027944/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![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 [etc.] ... Part II. Treating of making curious confectionaries, or sweet-meats, jellies, syrups, cordial-waters ... to know good provisions, dye curious colours, whiten ivory ... physical and chyrurgical receipts ... and a great number of other useful and profitable things.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0027945/full/180%2C/0/default.jpg)
![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 [etc.] ... Part II. Treating of making curious confectionaries, or sweet-meats, jellies, syrups, cordial-waters ... to know good provisions, dye curious colours, whiten ivory ... physical and chyrurgical receipts ... and a great number of other useful and profitable things.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0027946/full/180%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Preparations, classified as Compound Waters, Tinctures, Syrups, Decoctions, etc., in English
Date: Early eighteenth centuryReference: MS.MSL.13/6Part of: A Pocket-Book of Miscellanea- Archives and manuscripts
A collection of preparations, beginning with Syrups, and proceeding to electuaries, pills, powders, etc.
Date: Late 16th centuryReference: MS.MSL.66/1Part of: A Pharmacopœia- Books
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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 in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Potting, Collaring, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Custards, Creams. Preserves, Conserves, Syrups, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials, Distilling, Brewing. 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, consisting of Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, &c. which, after many Years Experience, have been proved to be innocent in their Application, and most salutary in their Use. with Directions for marketing. By E. Smith.
Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.Date: 1773- Books
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The housekeeper's valuable present: or, lady's closet companion. Being a new and complete art of preparing confects, according to modern practice. Comprized under the following Parts; viz. I. Different Methods and Degrees of boiling and clarifying Sugar. II. Methods of preserving various Fruits in Syrups, &c. III. Methods of making Marmalades, Jams, Pastes, &c. IV. Methods of making Syrups, Custards, Jellies, Blanch-Mange, Conserves, Syllabubs, &c. V. Methods of preserving various Fruits in Brandy. VI. Methods of making a Variety of Biscuits, rich Cakes, &c. &c. Vii. Methods of mixing, freezing, and working Ice Creams. Viii. Methods of preparing Cordials and made Wines. With a Variety of other useful and elegant Articles. By Robert Abbot, Late Apprentice to Messrs. Negri & Gunter, Confectioners, in Berkeley Square.
Abbot, Robert, cook.Date: [1790?]- Archives and manuscripts
Autograph chemical observations on syrups, signed by Payen
Date: 19th centuryReference: MS.7409/25Part of: Payen, Anselme (1795-1871), French chemist