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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-Date: 1562- Books
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The way to get wealth: or, a new and easie way to make twenty three sorts of wine, equal to that of France; with their Vertues. Also to make Cyder, Mead, Rum, Rack, Brandy, and Cordial Waters: Pickles, Vinegar, and the Mystery of Vintners. Also, divers Physical Receipts to help a Bad Memory, so that you may remember all that you read or do. To make Cloaths keep out Rain. The Compleat Servant-Maid, directing to Dress Fish, Flesh, or Fowl. To have a fresh Crop of Corn. To make China-Varnish, and black Ground for Japan-Work, to Black Wood, and Gild. To which is added, a help to discourse, Giving an Account of Trade of all Countries, and Inventers of Arts and Sciences. An Account of the River Nilus. To make Horses fat. Of Gardning, and many other Curiosities. By the author of The way to save wealth; and of One thousand notable things.
Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.Date: [1701?]- Books
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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- 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 authors, with a necessary table in the ende, containying all the matters treated of in this present worke. Englished by Wylliam Warde.
Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565Date: [1566]- Books
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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?]- Books
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Dictionaire oeconomique: or, The family dictionary. Containing the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health, with many approved remedies for most distempers of the body of man, cattle and other creatures, and the best means for attaining long life. The most advantageous ways of breeding, feeding and ordering all sorts of domestick animals, as horses, ... The different kinds of nets, snares and engines for taking all sort of fish, birds, and other game. Great variety of rules, directions, and new discoveries, relating to gardening, husbandry, soils and manures of all sorts; ...The best and chespest ways of providing and improving all manner of meats and drinks; ... Means of making the most advantage of the manufactures of soap, starch, spinning, cotton, thread, &c. The methods to take or destory vermin and other animals, injurious to gardening, husbandry, and all rural occonomy; ... An account of the several weights, measures, &c. of metals and minerals, with their preparations and uses. All sorts of rural sports and exercises, conducing to the benefit and innocent enjoyments of life, as also painting in miniature, and divers other arts and terms of art explained, for the entertainment and amusement of gentlemen, ladies, &c. The whole illustrated thoughout with very great variety of figures, for the readier understanding and practising of things to which they belong. Done into English from the second edition, lately printed at Paris, in two volumes, folio, written by M. Chomel: with considerable alterations and improvements. Revised and recommended by Mr. R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F.R.S. In two volumes.
Chomel, Noel, 1632-1712.Date: M.DCC.XXV. [1725]- Books
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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.
Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565Date: 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.
Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742.Date: 1736- 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: 1611- Books
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Mrs. Johnston's receipts for all sorts of pastry, creams, puddings, custards, preserves, marmalets, conserves, geillies, syrops, wines, wet and dry confections, biskets, sauces, pickles, and cookery, after the newest and most approved method.
Johnston, Mrs.Date: printed in the year [1740]- Books
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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.
Woolley, Hannah, active 1670Date: 1664- Books
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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- Books
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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- Books
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The accomplished housekeeper, and universal cook. Containing all the various branches of cookery; directions for Roasting, Boiling and Made Dishes, also for Frying, Broiling, Stewing, Mincing, and Hashing. The different Methods of Dressing Poultry, Game, and Fish, And of Preparing Soups, Gravies, Cullices, and Broths, To dress Roots and Vegetables, And to make all Sorts of Pies, Puddings, Pancakes, and Fritters; Cakes, Puffs, and Biscuits; Cheesecakes, Tarts, and Custards; Creams and Jams; Blanc Mange, Flummery, Jellies, and Syllabubs. The various Articles in Candying, Drying, Preserves, and Pickling; The Preparation of Hams, Tongues, Bacon, and of Made Wines and Cordial Waters. Directions for carving. With a Catalogue of the various Articles in Season every Month in the Year. By T. Williams, and the principal cooks at the London and Crown and Anchor taverns.
Williams, T., cook.Date: 1797- Books
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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- Books
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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.
White, John, -1671Date: 1677- 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: 1603- Books
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The lady's complete guide; or cookery and confectionary in all their branches. Containing the most approved receipts, ... To which is added, ... the complete brewer; ... also the family physician; ... By Mrs. Mary Cole, ...
Cole, Mary, cook.Date: 1789- 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 to 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 no person need be at a loss to provide an agreeable variety of dishes, at a moderate expence. With directions for making and breeding poultry to advantage. Concluding with many excellent prescriptions, of singular efficacy 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: 1745- Books
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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.
Lupton, ThomasDate: [1579]- Books
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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?]- Books
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Bradshaw's valuable family jewel: or, the complete house-wife. Being a store-house of such Curious Matters, as all ought to be acquainted with, who intend to spend their Lives either Pleasant or Profitable. containing all that relates to cookery, pastry, pickling, preserving, wine making, brewing, bread making, marketing, &c. With a great Number of other Necessary Articles, not to be met with in any other Book: Particularly, an Excellent Method for the Management of a Beer-Celler: How to keep Ale, or Beer, always exceeding Fine; and how to restore sour Beer to its first Perfection; which Article has been of the utmost Service to the Purchasers of this book. Likewise, an Excellent Method to preserve a constant Stock of yeast, even in the most scarce Seasons. - In this book is likewise inserted, Mons. Millien's Method of preserving Metels from Rust, such as Guns, Grates, Candle-Sticks, &c. for the Discovery of which, the Parliament of Paris gave Him Ten Thousand Pounds. By Mrs. Penelope Bradshaw, and the late ingenious Mr. Lambart confectioner. To which is added, an appendix. Containing, a very Choice and valuable Collection of well-experienced Practical Family-Receipts in Physick and Surgery. Particularly, Dr. Mead's for the Cure of the Bite of a Mad Dog. Also, Cautions, Rules, and Directions, to be taken and observed in fishing. Likewise, Directions for painting, &c.
Bradshaw, Penelope.Date: [1749]- Books
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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.
White, John, -1671Date: 1689- 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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Delights for ladies : to adorn their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories. With beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters. Read, practice, and censure.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608Date: 1647