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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- Books
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The new London toilet: or, a compleat collection of the most simple and useful receipts for preserving and improving beauty, either by outward application or internal use. With many other valuable Secrets in elegant and ornamental Arts. Containing near four hundred receipts under the following General Heads. Perfumes Fine Waters Baths Cosmetics Conserves Confectionary Snuffs Pastes Wash Balls Scented Powders Pomatums Fine Syrups Jellys Preserved Fruits, &c. With every Species of Cosmetic that may be useful in improving Beauty, or concealing the Ravages of Time and Sickness. To which is added a treatise on the art of managing, improving, and dressing the hair on the most improved Principles of that Art.
Date: 1778- Ephemera
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Malt syrups : traditional sweeteners made from cereal grains rich in natural maltose / Clearspring Ltd.
Clearspring Ltd.Date: 1991- 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, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials. With copper plates curiously engraven for the regular Disposition or Placing 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 Family Receipts of Medicines; viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various other Things of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c. never before made publick; fit either for private Families, or such publick-spirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor Neighbours. By E. Smith.
Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.Date: [1739]- Books
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The compleat housewife: or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of five hundred of the most approved receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials. With copper plates curiously engraven for the regular Disposition or Placing the various Dishes and Courses. And Also Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. To which is added, A Collection of above Two Hundred Family Receipts of Medicines; viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various other Things of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c. never qefore made publick; fit either for private Families, or such publick spirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor Neighbours. By E. Smith.
Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]- Books
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The compleat housewife: or, accomplished gentlewoman's companion: Being a Collection of upwards of Five Hundred of the most approved Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials. With Copper Plates curiously engraven for the regular Disposition or Placing the various Dishes and Courses. And also Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. To which is added, A Collection of above Two Hundred Family Receipts of Medicines; viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various other Things of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c. never before made publick; fit either for private Families, or such publick-spirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor Neighbours. By E- S-.
Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.Date: M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]- Books
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The compleat housewife: or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of five hundred of the most approved receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials. With copper plates curiously engraven for the regular Disposition or Placing the various Dishes and Courses. And also Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. To which is added, a collection of above two hundred family receipts of medicines; viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various other Things of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c. never before made publick; fit either for private Families, or such publick-spirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor Neighbours. By E- S-
Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]- Books
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The compleat housewife: or, accomplished gentlewoman's companion: being a collection of upwards of five hundred of the most approved receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials. With copper plates curiously engraven for the regular Disposition or Placing the various Dishes and Courses. And Also Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year. To which is added, a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines: viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various other Things of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c. never before made publick; fit either for private Families, or such publick-spirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficient to their poor Neighbours. By E---- S----
Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.Date: M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
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The queen's royal cookery: or, expert and ready way for the dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowl, fish: Either Bak'd, Boil'd, Roasted, Stew'd, Fry'd, Broil'd, Hash'd, Frigasied, Carbonaded, Forc'd, Collar'd, Sous'd, Dry'd, &c. After the Best and Newest Way. With their several Sauses and Salads. And making all sorts of Pickles. Also Making Variety of Pies, Pasties, Tarts, Cheese-Cakes, Custards, Creams, &c. With The Art of Preserving and Candying of Fruits and Flowers; and the making of Conserves, Syrups, Jellies, and Cordial Waters. Also making several Sorts of English Wines. Cyder, Mead, Metheglin. Together With several Cosmetick or Beautifying Waters: And also several sorts of Essences and Sweet Waters, by Persons of the highest Quality. By T. Hall, free cook of London.
Hall, T., cook.Date: 1719- Books
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The compleat herbal of physical plants. Containing all such English and foreign herbs, shrubs and trees, as are used in physick and surgery. And to the Vertues that are now in use, is added one Receipt or more, of some Learned Physician. The Doses or Quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-Physicians, and others, are proportioned. Also Directions for making Compound-Waters, Syrups Simple and Compound; Electuaries, Pills, Powders, and other sorts of Medicines. Moreover. The Gums, Balsams, Oils, Juices, and the like, which are sold by Apothecaries and Druggists, are added to this Herbal; and their Virtues and Uses are fully described. The second edition, with the addition of many physical herbs, and their vertues. By John Pechey, of the College of Physicians in London.
Pechey, John, 1655-1716.Date: 1707- Books
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The queen's royal cookery: or, expert and ready way for the dressing of all sorts of flesh, fowl, fish: Either Bak'd, Boil'd, Roasted, Stew'd, Fry'd, Broil'd, Hash'd, Frigasied, Carbonaded, Forc'd, Collar'd, Sous'd, Dry'd, &c. After the Best and Newest Way. With their several Sauses and Salads. And making all sorts of Pickles. Also Making Variety of Pies, Pasties, Tarts, Cheese-Cakes, Custards, Creams, &c. With The Art of Preserving and Candying of Fruits and Flowers; and the making of Conserves, Syrups, Jellies, and Cordial Waters. Also making several Sorts of English Wines, Cyder, Mead, Metheglin. Together, With several Cosmetick or Beautifying Waters: And also several sorts of Essences and Sweet Waters, by Persons of the highest Quality. By T. Hall, free cook of London.
Hall, T., cook.Date: 1713- Ephemera
California Syrup of Figs : nature's pleasant laxative / California Fig Syrup Co.
California Fig Syrup Co.Date: [1907]- Books
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The family dictionary: or, houshold companion. Containing, I. Cookery in Dressing Flesh, Fowl, Fish, Herbs, Roots, making Sawces, &c. II. Pastry, making Pyes, Pasties, Puddings, Pancakes, Cheesecakes, Custards, Tansies, &c. III. Confects, Candies, Conserves, Preserves, Creams, Gellies, Pickles, &c. IV. Potable Liquors, as Ale, Beer, Mum, Mead, Cider, Perry, Rape, English Wines, Chocolet, Coffee, Tea, &c. V. Perfuming Sweet Balls, Pouders, Pomanders, Essences, Sweet Waters, Beautifying Washes, &c. VI. Husbandry, as it relates to the Improvement of Our Barren and Waste Lands, Manufactures &c. Vii. Preparations galenick and chymick' relating to Physick and Chirurgery, as Cordial Waters, Spirits, Tinctures, Elixirs, Syrups, Pouders, Electuaries, Pills, Oils, Balsams, Cerecloths, and Emplasters, fitted for Curing most Diseases Incident to Men, Women, and Children. The fourth edition, with above eleven hundred additions, intersperst through the Whole Work. By William Salmon. M. D.
Salmon, William, 1644-1713.Date: 1710- Books
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The compleat confectioner: or, the whole art of confectionary made plain and easy. Shewing, The various Methods of preserving and candying, both dry and liquid, all Kinds of Fruit, Flowers and Herbs; the different Ways of clarifying Sugar; and the Method of Keeping Fruit, Nuts and Flowers fresh and fine all the Year round. Also directions for making Rock-Works and Candies, Biscuits, Rich Cakes, Creams, Custards, Jellies, Whip Syllabubs, and Cheese-Cakes of all Sorts, English Wines of all Sorts, Strong Cordials, Simple Waters, Mead, Oils, &c. Syrups of all Kinds, Milk Punch that will keep twenty Years, Knicknacks and Trifles for Deserts, &c. Likewise, The Art of making Artificial Fruit, with the Stalks in it, so as to resemble the natural Fruit. To which are added, Some Bills of Fare for Deserts for private Families. By H. Glasse, author of the art of cookery.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: [1760?]- Books
The nurse's book of useful information / with the compliments of The California Fig Syrup Co.
Date: [1920?]- Books
The compleat herbal of physical plants ... Also directions for making compound-waters, syrups ... and other sorts of medicines ... / [John Pechey].
Pechey, John, 1655-1716Date: 1707- Books
The compleat herbal of physical plants ... Also directions for making compound-waters, syrups ... and other sorts of medicines ... / [John Pechey].
Pechey, John, 1655-1716Date: 1707- 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, Pastry, Confectionary, Preserving, Pickles, Cakes, Creams, Jellies, Made Wines, Cordials. With copper plates curiously engraven for the regular Disposition or Placing 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 Family Receipts of Medicines; viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various other Things of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, &c. particularly Dr. Mead's famous Receipt for the Cure of a Bite of a mad Dog; with several other excellent Receipts for the same, which have cured when the Person was disorder'd, and the salt Water failed; never before made publick: fit either for private Families, or such publick-spirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficent to their poor Neighbours. By E. Smith.
Smith, E. (Eliza), -approximately 1732.Date: [1741]- Books
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The complete confectioner; or, housekeeper's guide: to a simple and speedy method of understanding the whole art of confectionary; the various ways of preserving and candying, dry and liquid, All Kinds of Fruit, Nuts, Flowers, Herbs, &c. And the Method of keeping them Fresh And Fine All The Year Round; The Different Ways Of Clarifying Sugar; With Directions for making Fruit Pastes, Bomboons, Pastils, Compotes, Fruit Ices, Cream Ices, Marmalades, Jellies, Jams, Cakes, Puffs, Biscuits, Tarts, Custards, Cheesecakes, Sweetmeats, Fritters, Creams, Syllabubs, Blanc-Mange, Flummeries, Ornaments for grand Entertainments, Dragees, Syrups of all Kinds, Nicknacks and Trifles for Desserts, Strong Cordials, Oils, Simple Waters, Milk Punch that will keep 20 Years, and All Sorts of English Wines. Also, the art of making artificial fruit, With the Stalks in it, so as to resemble the natural Fruit. To which are added, some bills of fare for desserts for private families. By Mrs. H. Glass, author of The art of cookery, with considerable additions and corrections, by Maria Wilson.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: 1800- Books
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The court and country confectioner: or, the house-keeper's guide; to a more speedy, plain, and familiar method of understanding the whole art of confectionary, pastry, distilling, and the making of fine flavoured English wines from all kinds of fruits, herbs, and flowers; comprehending near five hundred easy and practical receipts, never before made known. Particularly, Preserving. Candying. Icing. Transparent Marmalade. Orange. Pine-Apple. Pistachio, and other Rich Creams. Caramel. Pastils. Bomboons. Syrups. Puff, Spun, and Fruit-Pastes. Light-Biscuits. Puffs. Rich Seed-Cakes. Custards. Syllabubs. Flummeries. Trifles, Whips, Fruits, and other Jellies. - Pickles, &c. Also New and easy directions for clarifying the different degrees of sugar, together with several bills of fare of deserts for private gentlemen's families, A new edition. To which is added, a dissertation on the different species of fruits, and the art of distilling simple waters, cordials, persumed oils, and essences. By Mr. Borella, now head confectioner to the Spanish Ambassador in England.
Borella, Mr.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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The compleat city and country cook: or, accomplish'd housewife. Containing, Several Hundred of the most approv'd Receipts in Cookery, Confectionary, Cordials, Cosmeticks, Jellies, Pastry, Pickles, Preserving, Syrups, English Wines, &c. Illustrated with forty-nine large copper plates, directing the regular placing the various Dishes on the Table, from one to four or five Courses: Also, Bills of Fare according to the several Seasons for every Month of the Year. Likewise, The Horse-Shoe Table for the Ladies at the late Instalment at Windsor; the Lord Mayor's Table; and other Hall Dinners in the City of London; with a Fish Table, &c. By Charles Carter. Lately Cook to his Grace the Duke of Argyle, the Earl of Pontefract, the Lord Cornwallis, &c. To which are added, Near Two Hundred of the most approved Receipts in Physick and Surgery, for the Cure of the most common Diseases incident to Families; with several sovereign Receipts for the Cure of the Bite of a Mad Dog.
Carter, Charles.Date: 1736