Cookery Collection

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

Joy of Perfect Cooking
The Joys of Perfect Cooking promises delicious food for the home. Woman, women, kitchen, advert advertising, advertisement

Isabella Mary Beeton (1836-1865)
Photographic portrait of Isabella Mary Beeton, nee Mayson, the English cookery writer, pictured c.1856. Beetons Book of Household Management, first published in 1859, made her name a household word

1940S Housewife Cooking
A housewife cooks on a simple stove in a bare and austere kitchen, adding milk to the pan she is stirring

18th C French Kitchen
Several cooks work in a French kitchen to prepare and bake pies and pastry, a hare and a bird pie of some kind, perhaps pigeon

Christmas Cookery C1905
Preparing the Christmas dinner for all the family, not forgetting the kitten and the Household Gnome

Older Woman Baking 1947
An older woman wearing a flowery apron rolls out pastry for some home baking

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

Mrs Beeton Front Cover
Front Cover of Mrs Beetons Every Day Cookery and Housekeeping

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

Racing Illustrated - Putting on the Stakes A jolly French Chef working in a large restaurant kitchen puts an order of beef steaks under the grill. One could say this card was medium rare

Baking Day, by Ethel Parkinson. A little Dutch girl kneads some dough, while a little boy tastes some freshly baked pastry

Cookery Magazine 1917
A wartime issue of this popular cookery magazine - Splendid Flour Substitute recipes, Making the meat go round, the sugar shortage, How to save bread

Starry Gazey Pie, Mousehole, Cornwall
A mouthwatering example of a Starry Gazey Pie, served up on Tom Bawcocks Eve (23 December) at Mousehole in Cornwall

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

Cooking from a Book - 2
Add half a cup-full of chopped onions

Comic postcard, little girl with cookery book - Now I'll get him! Date: circa 1930s

Interior of Italian Kitchen. Cooks preparing a feast. Facsimile of a woodcut from the cookbook of Cristoforo di Messisbugo, Banchetti compositioni di Vivende, published in Ferrara, 1549

Cookery class Royal Commercial Travellers School, Pinner early 1900's

Ladies enjoying the food at a cookery demonstration. Date: circa 1955

Cookery demonstration
Eager housewives enjoying an in-store cookery demonstration Date: circa 1960

Cunard Line Handbook and Cunard Cookbook
Cunard Line Handbook dated December 1905, 178 pages. Behind it is The Cunard Cookbook. Date: 20th century

Japan - Spice Dealer
Spice Dealer, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

A cookery demonstration in Leeds. Date: 1963

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

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

Alexis Soyer
French-born Alexis Soyer was Britains first celebrity chef

Cookery
Small girl reading a cookery book. Artist Hilda Cowham. Date: 1915

Jello
Jell-O advertisement...and remember girls, Jell-O, so easily made, is always welcome and in good taste. Cookery teacher and pupils. Illustration from the Ladies Home Journal January 1924

The school-room as it ought to be 1879
Young ladies being tutored by a French chef, with governess standing near by. Date: 1879

Girls in a cookery lesson, learning to cook tarts and a joint of beef which a group of teachers will buy for their dinner

Madagascar - Shelling (De-husking) Rice Date: circa 1906

Cookery classes 1890s
The National Training School of Cookery was established in 1873, it commenced its work at South Kensington, photograph showing women being taught how to cook. Date: circa 1890s

BOYS COOKING
Boys are taught how to cook Date: 1930s

MODERN DOMESTIC COOKERY
Cover images from Modern Domestic Cookery. Date: early 19th century

FRENCH PASTRY BOOK C17
Le Pastissier Francois: a famous cookery book featuring a plethora of pastry preparations. Date: 1665

COOKERY CLASS / PASTRIES
A cookery class - the pupils appear to be making tarts. Date: 1920s

Cookery Book
Publishers postcard advertisement for The Bachelor Girls Cookery Book. Artist: L.R.J. Date: 1910

Curry shop, Delhi, India
A chef squats by a huge cooking pot and cooks curry in an open air curry shop and restaurant in Old Delhi, India Date: 1987

The Complete Practical Cook
Book, The Complete Practical Cook; Or, A New System Of the Whole Art and Mystery of Cookery, by Charles Carter, London: printed for W. Meadows, in Cornhill; C

Atelettes -- food on decorative skewers, including shellfish, vegetables, crystallised fruit, truffles and jelly. circa 1890

Starry Gazey Pie, Ship Inn, Mousehole, Cornwall
A mouthwatering example of a Starry Gazey Pie, served up on Tom Bawcocks Eve (23 December) at Mousehole in Cornwall

Ships Cook Certificate
A certificate awarded by the Shipping Federation School of Nautical Cookery to Alan Sanderson

Pan Catching Fire
A cautionary tale in the use of pans which are not made of aluminium branded with an official safety mark from the Societe Francaise des Metaux Ouvres ! Date: 1928

Cordon Bleu with its founder, Rosemary Hume
The Cordon Bleu School at a trade fair with its founder, Rosemary Hume Date: 1970

Mexico - Lady making tortillas. She is rolling out the dough on a stone (with a rolling pin), shaping the tortillas and cooking them on a hot stove, with a elaborate stone chimney. Date: circa 1905

Cookery lesson, Askham Grange Prison, North Yorkshire
Inmates at Askham Grange female training prison in North Yorkshire take part in a cookery lesson. The instructor has written a recipe for scones on the blackboard. Date: circa 1945

Haybox Cooking, Food Saving Exhibition, Institute of Hygiene
Hay Box Cooking Demonstration at the Food Saving Exhibition, Institute of Hygiene (which opened on 28th January 1918)

Mile Oak School, Portslade - Cookery Instruction
Boys receiving cookery lessons in the kitchen at Mile Oak Industrial School at Portslade, near Brighton. Date: circa 1930

Picnic Cakes with sports decorations -- lawn tennis, coaching, cricket, boating, football, polo. circa 1890

Artistic Jellies, in a range of shapes and colours. circa 1890

Crystallized Fruit
Artistic Stands containing Crystallized Fruit. circa 1890

Artificially Served Ices, in a range of shapes and colours. circa 1890

Advertising card for Belgian Cooking Range, manufactured by Ch. Van Ackere & Co. - similar in style to an Aga. Date: circa 1910s

Will and Betty Rogers - outdoor cookery
Will Rogers (1879-1935) - a Cherokee cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, newspaper columnist, social commentator and stage and motion picture actor

Montem Street Centre, London - Cookery Lesson
The London School Boards Montem Street Centre - girls mix ingredients in bowls at a cookery class. Date: early 1900s

Old Maid card - Cook. circa 1940s

School Baking Class
A class of girls have a baking lesson at school Date: early 1900s

Francatellis Title Page
A practical treatise on the art of confectionary in all its branches. Date: 1883

Chef and Students
The chef of a fashionable Paris cercle (club) permits ladies of high society to watch him at work Date: 1912

Culinary moulds 1887
Copper moulds for hot and cold entrees and savories. 1887

Culinary moulds in tin 1887
Page selection of culinary moulds in tin. 1887

Culinary moulds in pewter 1887
Page selection of culinary moulds in pewter. 1887

Mrs. A. B Marshalls school of Cookery 1887
Interior of Mrs. A. B Marshalls crowded class room during the progress of an entire dinner lesson in Mortimer Street, Regent Street, London. May 1887

Electrical chafing dish 1912
Chafing-dish stand on four legs in aluminium, used for table cookery. 1912

Shaftesbury Home, Ealing - Cookery Class
Shaftesbury Home, Ealing - girls in the kitchen for a cookery class. Date: early 1900s

Chafing dishes 1899
Nickel plated chafing dish, useful for preparing hot foods for super luncheon, tea ect

Edinburgh Day Industrial School - Cookery
A cookery class at the Day Industrial School, St Johns Hill, Edinburgh. Date: circa 1908

The Empire Cookery Book - Advert for Holophane Lampshades. Date: 1920s

The Empire Cookery Book - Advertisement for Pyrex Transparent glass ovenware. Date: 1920s

The Empire Cookery Book - Advert for Cow & Gate Baby Milk Food Date: 1920s

The Empire Cookery Book - Advertisement for Electric Cookers
The Empire Cookery Book - Advertisement promoting the benefits of an Electric Cooker. Date: 1920s

The Empire Cookery Book - Long table set out for dessert
The Empire Cookery Book - Long table set out for the dessert course. Date: 1920s

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

The Empire Cookery Book - Glamorous woman cooking up a storm in her 1920s kitchen. Date: 1920s

The Empire Cookery Book - Glamorous woman tastes some soup. Date: 1920s

The Empire Cookery Book - Lady taking cake out of the oven. Date: 1920s

The Empire Cookery Book - Lady making a pot of tea
The Empire Cookery Book - Glamorous lady making a pot of tea. Date: 1920s

The Empire Cookery Book - Title Page Date: 1920s

WW2 birthday card, baking a cake. Date: circa 1942

Cookery for Invalids and Others, 1897
The front cover of Cookery for Invalids and Others by Lizzie Heritage. Date: 1897

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

Tatler cover - Mrs Burleigh Leach
Front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring a portrait of Mrs Burleigh Leach

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