Recipes Collection

Lea & Perrins Recipes
Subtle seasoning: a collection of recipes for epicures and others ; the cover of a Lea & Perrins booklet

MAYs COOKERY BOOK 1685
The Accomplished Cook, or the art and mystery of Cookery : a seventeenth century guide to success in the kitchen by Robert May

1930s woman cooking in her kitchen
A woman stands at a kitchen pantry or dresser trying out new recipes. Attached to the work service is a hand operated meat mincer. Date: c.1930

Recipe for Pudding
Recipe for Christmas Pudding using McDougalls Flour

Cover design, Over 120 Ways of Using Bread for tasty and delightful dishes. Showing a woman in her kitchen, enjoying some of the results of her baking. Date: circa 1940s

Poster advertising National Savings (the best British recipe for prosperity), with six recipes from one of the first television chefs, Philip Harben (1906-1970). circa 1940s

WW2, The Kitchen Front
An illustration which shows a wartime girl thinking up some recipes with her pencil placed to her lips, she must be careful because ingredients would be rationed and brought from overseas during WW2

RMS Titanic - recipe book owned by William Proctor, brother of Titanic chef Charles Proctor. Hardbound volume with his name and date written on the front

Advert for Certo pure fruit pectin, featuring a recipe for strawberry jam. Date: 1932

Cover design, All about Fruit Cakes by the Stork Margarine Cookery Service Date: 1951

All about Sandwich Cakes, Sponges and Swiss Rolls by the Stork Margarine Cookery Service Date: 1951

Vegetable variety, 1943. Wartime recipes. Date: 1943

Queer fish, 1943. Wartime recipes using fish such as ling, rock salmon, skate and dogfish. 1943

Its in the cooking, 1943. Wartime cooking and recipes. Home front in Britain. Date: 1943

Festival Dainties for Easter, Radiation Gas Cooker booklet. 1920s

Appetising and inexpensive dishes made with Beefex, a beef extract. Date: c. 1920s

Cupid with cooking guidance on a comic Valentine card
Cupid with culinary guidance, How to Cook a Heart, on a comic Valentine card. Date: circa 1890s

Cocktails in The Sketch, 1920s
Page from The Sketch full of advertisements relating to the cocktail craze of the 1920s. Drinks advertised include Vermouth, Cointreau

Recipe for Lancashire hot pot by Mrs Beeton
Mrs Beetons recipe for Lancashire hot pot Date: 1907

Ministry of Food poster, WW2, advertising various information leaflets, recipes, etc. Date: 1940s

Christmas Pudding Recipe
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, The Empire Christmas Pudding recipe Date: 1927-1933

Whale meat menu and recipe card: 1918
Culinary science applied to the whale: the menu and recipes at a steak whale luncheon given by the American Museum of Natural History on 8th February 1918

The Empire Cookery Book - Front Cover
The Empire Cookery Book - complied by Marguerite Fedden - Front Cover. Date: 1920s

The Empire Cookery Book - Title Page Date: 1920s

Sketch cover - midnight cocktail for the Midnight Ball
Front cover of The Sketch magazine with an illustration displaying the recipe for a midnight cocktail which would be served at the magazines Midnight Ball held at the Savoy Hotel in June 1914

Cookery for Invalids and Others, inside pages, 1897
Chapter VI of Cookery for Invalids and Others by Lizzie Heritage, detailing recipes for Apple and Apple and Crumb Puddings. Date: 1897

War Time Pudding with Oxo, 1918
Advertisement for Oxo from the First World War, suggesting that the versatile stock cube could help out your meat ration. A new Oxo dish prepared by an unidentified celebrated chef

Dried egg recipes 1945
Dried egg recipes: Scrambled omelet eggs, curried eggs, rissoles, meat vegetable cakes, cabbage rissoles and Spanish bread. Date: 1945

Advert for the Ministry of Food 1943
Twice as good with egg. What a blessing it is that you now use almost as many eggs as you want. Thanks to the success of dried egg in this country

Advert for The Ministry of Food 1941
Don t waste it, advert during the Second World War for not wasting food. Cheap and nourishing, ways of cooking potatoes in a varity of appetising

Advert for Hugons Atora beef suet 1937
Hugons Atora beef suet, with recipes for Christmas pudding and mincemeat for mince pies. 1937

Manual of Workhouse Cookery, cover
The cover of a well used copy of the Manual of Workhouse Cookery, marked Matrons Use in the top left corner. The book was published in 1901 alongside a major revision of workhouse diets

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

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