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Tacuinum Sanitatis. Late XIV century. ButcheryTacuinum Sanitatis. Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on observations of medical order detailing the most important aspects of food, beverages and clothing. Butchery. Miniature. Fol
Advertising sheet music, Plasmon biscuitsAdvertising sheet music, Plasmon cocoa and chocolate oat biscuits. A popular song, Humpty and Dumpty, by Charles Wilmott and Hermann E Darewski. 1907
Happy Familes Playing Cards - Mrs Bone. circa 1935
Humanised vegetable chef on a Christmas card, holding up an iced cake, by Herman Rothe. Date: circa 1880s
Peeling Potatoes 1940SA housewife with painted red fingernails peels potatoes into an enamel bowl in the kitchen sink. Date: 1940s (re-enactment)
School Baking ClassA class of girls have a baking lesson at school Date: early 1900s
French Scene / Munster / C16A whole variety of activites being pursued in the French countryside, some pious, some sporting, some agricultural and some scientific across a range of social standings Date: 1553
Cooking and heating equipment 1929Economical equipment for cooking and heating, products for Harrods catalogue building & decorating department. Date: 1929
Cartoon, Women and cigarette smoke. A young woman wafts away billowing clouds of cigarette smoke from another woman who is smoking
Poultry Ready to CookPoultry is prepared and ready for cooking. Date: late 19th century
Saucepan C19Date: late 19th century
Preparing Dinner, SaelboA woman prepares the dinner in a cottage in Saelbo, Norway. Date: 1905
French Pastry CookA boy watches a French pastry cook at work. Date: 1850
Terms and ConditionsA lodging-house keeper names her terms and conditions to a potential guest - no unaccompanied female visitors, no alcohol, no cooking in the rooms... Date: 1842
Chef and StudentsThe chef of a fashionable Paris cercle (club) permits ladies of high society to watch him at work Date: 1912
Charles Meets Flora / 1746The first meeting between Charles Edward Stuart and Flora MacDonald. Date: 1746
Chafing dish 1897Using a chafing dish at the table, to make sure that the food is good and hot when it is served Date: 1897
Household ArticlesA broom-seller and a vendor of cooking pots Date: early 19th century
Dionysos Prepares FeastDionysos and his companions prepare for a feast - the cooks get cooking, decorations are hung, the musicians practise
Advert for kitchen range cookers 1888Four kitchen ranges by Ashton & Green, London 1888
Culinary moulds 1887Copper moulds for hot and cold entrees and savories. 1887
Culinary moulds in tin 1887Page selection of culinary moulds in tin. 1887
Culinary moulds in pewter 1887Page selection of culinary moulds in pewter. 1887
Fancy ice moulds in pewter 1887Page selection of birds, fish, fruit and vegtables for ice moulds. Date: 1887
Mrs. A. B Marshalls school of Cookery 1887Interior of Mrs. A. B Marshalls crowded class room during the progress of an entire dinner lesson in Mortimer Street, Regent Street, London. May 1887
Making the Christmas plum-pudding 1850Mother making Christmas plum-pudding, with her children trying to get a taste. Date: 1850
Electrical chafing dish 1912Chafing-dish stand on four legs in aluminium, used for table cookery. 1912
Cartoon, Split Pea Soup, Valley Inn, California, USACartoon, Little Known Occupations, Splitting Peas for Split Pea Soup, advertising Andersens Valley Inn, Buellton, Santa Barbara County, California, USA. Date: circa 1940
Advert for Carron Company gas oven 1889New Castor, gas oven, heated by luminous jets with boiler attached. Date: 1889
Gipsies Camp, C17 FranceGipsy encampment in France: cooking & preparing food, gambling and giving birth... Date: circa 1630
Advert for Dobble, Forbes & Co stoves and ranges 1889A selection of ranges and stoves all available from Dobble, Forbes & Co, in three store in Larbert, London and Glasgow. 1889
Shop selling jugs, Tunis, Tunisia, North AfricaShop selling jugs and cooking pots, Tunis, Tunisia, North Africa. Date: circa 1902
Russian soldiers at mess, Eastern Front, WW1Russian soldiers at mess on the Eastern Front during the First World War. Date: circa 1917
Chafing dishes 1899Nickel plated chafing dish, useful for preparing hot foods for super luncheon, tea ect. Cooked foods could be made hot very quickly, the upper pan only used for cooking chops, omelets sweetbreads
Advert for Marshalls Cr譥De Riz, rice cream 1899Mrs A. B Marshalls Cr譥 De Riz, rice cream, available in a tin, used for cakes, puddings blanc-manges, biscuits and soaps. Date: 1899
Advertisement, Esse Cooker (similar to an Aga). 1935
Advert for Mappin & Webbs tableware tureens 1898Selection of late 19th century Prince plated, tureens. Date: 1898
Advert for Mappin & Webb tureens & flower stands 1905Terrecuite tureens to warm up food and one that can be used at the table for cooking and Prince plate arranged flutes for flowers for the table. Date: 1905
Chefs cooking in the Kitchen on a deluxe overland limited train in America Date: circa 1910
Kitchen, Grand Hotel, 41 Rue St Jacques, Bruges, BelgiumKitchen of the Grand Hotel, 41 Rue St Jacques, Bruges, Belgium. Date: circa 1910
Turkey and pudding on a Christmas cardA live turkey with a little boy, and a pudding in a saucepan, on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Girl with kettle and saucepan on a Christmas cardGirl in a kitchen with kettle and saucepan on a Christmas card. circa 1890s
The Brass Rail restaurant, New York City, USAThe Brass Rail restaurant, 7th Avenue and 49th Street, New York City, USA, showing meat cooking in front of burning coals on an English Roasting Jack. Date: circa 1940
Victor Sassie, owner of The Gay HussarThe owner of Hungarian restaurant The Gay Hussar, Victor Sassie (1915 - 1999) Date: 1966
Salvia nutans, nodding sageWatercolour on vellum, c. mid-17th century by Madeleine Basseporte (1701-1780). Held in the Library and Archives
Art deco illustration for cooking 1920s
Patent Triplex Grates Pattern with Best Black Porcelain Enamelled finish. Date: circa 1920s
Patent Triplex Grate B Pattern with Black Porcelain Enamelled finish. Date: circa 1920s