Cooked Collection

Mobile Butchers Shop
Mobile cooked meat shop of W J Poxon & Sons, Kidderminster, specialising in pork pies

Street Market Food, Fine Sausages Date: 18th century

Roast turkey on a plate on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Geese unhappy at the arrival of Michaelmas
A gaggle of geese are unhappy to read a notice that the season of Michaelmas has begun. Eating goose at Michaelmas was thought to bring good luck, but that did not apply to geese

Page of Victorian adverts - November 1895
A variety of advertisements in The Illustrated Sporting Dramatic News dated November 1895. November 1895

Cannibalism Cooking Dead Humans Fiji Fijian Native
cannibalism, cooking, dead, humans, fiji, fijian, native, barbaric, rite, traditions, pacific, islanders, fierce, warriors, enemies, consuming, cannibal, cannibalisation, cannibals, body, bodies

Supper Dishes cooked in the New World Gas Cooker
Supper Dishes cooked in the New World Regulo-Controlled Gas Cooker. 1920s

Poster, The effects of over-cooking and keeping hot. Vitamin value, goodness, taste go up in smoke - result is waste. 1945

STUFFED EGG SHIPS
Ship-shaped savoury boiled eggs, filled with egg yolks mixed with mayonnaise and cooked rice. Date: 1950s

Shrimp fisherman, Flookborough, Morecambe Bay - 8
Freshly cooked, freshly caught Morecambe Bay brown shrimps, Bob Dickinson, shrimp fisherman, Flookborough, Cumbria Date: 1993

The St. Louis Beef Canning Co. - Cooked Corn Beef - suitable for any dramatic raft-based sea survival situation... Date: circa 1870s

Cannibalism - Humorous postcard - Fiji - Doctor to be eaten
Cannibalism - Humorous postcard - Fiji - Western Doctor, investigating the Culinary Habits of the Cannibal Islands is himself about to become the entrea.. Date: circa 1910s

Chef with pudding on a Christmas card
Chef in a kitchen with a pudding on a Christmas card -- Out of the frying pan into the fire. Date: circa 1890s

Chef with roast turkey on a Christmas card
Chef in a kitchen with roast turkey on a Christmas card -- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, One of the Lords of the Creation -- a man is angry with his wife as he doesn t think the mutton has been fully cooked. 1827

Christmas Marron Glaces
Marron glaces, made from marrons, large Italian chestnuts cooked in a sugar syrup until they become soft and candied. Perfect for a Christmas treat. Date: 1930s

Advert for Dr Ridges food 1886
Dr Ridges whole food. Date: 1886

Lord Wooltons message to kitchen staff, WW2
Lord Wooltons message to kitchen staff, stressing the importance of well cooked food and the avoidance of waste during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

Cooking food for army in the field WWI
Various types of ovens and kitchens, from brick and clay ovens, parallel kitchen, broad arrow kitchen, aldershot ovens and internally heated oven burrowed into the side of a bank. Date: 1915

Christmas Puddings for the Front
Mrs Buckley of Birmingham, the wife of Captain Frank Buckley of the 17th Middlesex Regiment, with her impressive pile of 420 hand-cooked Christmas puddings for Birmingham soldiers at the front

Cafe decorated for George VI Coronation, Walton, Essex
A cafe on the High Street, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, decorated to celebrate the Coronation of King George VI. There are advertisements for Cooked Meats, Breakfasts, Luncheons, Teas

President Nixon with Boy Scouts
Richard Nixon sampling camp food with American Scouts. circa 1950s

Polish Scouts cooking
Polish Scouts crowding around to receive food cooked and served by other scouts. 1930s

Dietary from Thame Workhouse, Oxfordshire
The dietary or menu plan adopted in 19836 by the Thame Union workhouse in Oxfordshire. It largely comprises bread, meat and gruel, with a cooked meat dinner two days per week. Date: 1836

Gipsy carrying a plate of cooked meat
A gipsy carrying a plate of meat which has just been cooked, and is steaming hot

Time for food at Boys Club 1931
Lunch or possibly dinner is cooked on a open fire by the Boys Club group leader who smokes a pipe as he stirs the food. Today it looks like sausages

Making Pastry
Pastry is rolled out on the sideboard, then once cooked, the maid is shown removing the pie from the oven, and then once again with plates piled up high, ready for serving

London Sketches - Fetching the Sunday Dinner
Bustling London street scene showing people fetching their Sunday dinners and roasts from a Smiths Bakery. Many lower class households did not possess ovens during the Victorian era but could take a

The Grill-Room at the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in 1871. Also known as the Poynter Room or Dutch Kitchen

Roasting fifty six geese at once for the inmates of the old
Man turning the handle of a large roasting spit holding fifty six geese for the Old Mens Hospital, Norwich. The spit is composed of 10 rods, each having six geese on each

Fetching Xmas Dinner
Fetching the Christmas dinner - families who didn t possess big ovens would take their food to the bakers to get it cooked, then hurry home with it before it had time to cool

Cooking an Old Lady
When the natives run short of food, they strangle the oldest and least useful woman of the tribe and smoke her; when shes cooked, they consume her slice by tasty slice

Albionette Stove 1896
The Albionette stove promises perfectly cooked food for all

Tom Sawyer & Pirates
The pirates: " They built a fire against the side of a great log... & then cooked some bacon in the frying pan for supper..."

Goose Series (4 of 4)
The cooked goose is served (picture 4 of 4)

Out of the Frying Pan
She has cooked them in a frying-pan, and now shes dishing them up. Whatever they are

Reindeer Feast / Figuier
A meal of reindeer cooked on an open fire, during the Reindeer Era (part of the Stone Age)

Cooked Vegetables
Cooked vegetables

Cooking Children
For many of the best magic recipes, cooked children are an essential ingredient

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