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Lea & Perrins RecipesSubtle seasoning: a collection of recipes for epicures and others ; the cover of a Lea & Perrins booklet
Joy of Perfect CookingThe 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 CookingA housewife cooks on a simple stove in a bare and austere kitchen, adding milk to the pan she is stirring
18th C French KitchenSeveral 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 C1905Preparing the Christmas dinner for all the family, not forgetting the kitten and the Household Gnome
MAYs COOKERY BOOK 1685The Accomplished Cook, or the art and mystery of Cookery : a seventeenth century guide to success in the kitchen by Robert May
Older Woman Baking 1947An older woman wearing a flowery apron rolls out pastry for some home baking
Mrs Beeton Front CoverFront Cover of Mrs Beetons Every Day Cookery and Housekeeping
1930s woman cooking in her kitchenA 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
Baking Day, by Ethel Parkinson. A little Dutch girl kneads some dough, while a little boy tastes some freshly baked pastry
Cookery Magazine 1917A 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, CornwallA mouthwatering example of a Starry Gazey Pie, served up on Tom Bawcocks Eve (23 December) at Mousehole in Cornwall. The dish, with fish heads and tails sticking out of it, is unique to Mousehole
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
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 - 2Add half a cup-full of chopped onions
The Complete Practical CookBook, 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
Cookery class Royal Commercial Travellers School, Pinner early 1900's
Ladies enjoying the food at a cookery demonstration. Date: circa 1955
Cookery demonstrationEager housewives enjoying an in-store cookery demonstration Date: circa 1960
Cunard Line Handbook and Cunard CookbookCunard Line Handbook dated December 1905, 178 pages. Behind it is The Cunard Cookbook. Date: 20th century
Japan - Spice DealerSpice 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 CookerSupper Dishes cooked in the New World Regulo-Controlled Gas Cooker. 1920s
Alexis SoyerFrench-born Alexis Soyer was Britains first celebrity chef. He was head chef at Londons Reform Club, set up a soup kitchen in Dublin during the Irish Famine, wrote best-selling cookery books
CookerySmall girl reading a cookery book. Artist Hilda Cowham. Date: 1915
JelloJell-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 1879Young 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 1890sThe 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 COOKINGBoys are taught how to cook Date: 1930s
MODERN DOMESTIC COOKERYCover images from Modern Domestic Cookery. Date: early 19th century
FRENCH PASTRY BOOK C17Le Pastissier Francois: a famous cookery book featuring a plethora of pastry preparations. Date: 1665
COOKERY CLASS / PASTRIESA cookery class - the pupils appear to be making tarts. Date: 1920s
Cookery BookPublishers postcard advertisement for The Bachelor Girls Cookery Book. Artist: L.R.J. Date: 1910
Curry shop, Delhi, IndiaA chef squats by a huge cooking pot and cooks curry in an open air curry shop and restaurant in Old Delhi, India Date: 1987
Haybox Cooking, Food Saving Exhibition, Institute of HygieneHay Box Cooking Demonstration at the Food Saving Exhibition, Institute of Hygiene (which opened on 28th January 1918). A haybox, straw box, fireless cooker, insulation cooker
Atelettes -- food on decorative skewers, including shellfish, vegetables, crystallised fruit, truffles and jelly. circa 1890
Starry Gazey Pie, Ship Inn, Mousehole, CornwallA mouthwatering example of a Starry Gazey Pie, served up on Tom Bawcocks Eve (23 December) at Mousehole in Cornwall. The dish, with fish heads and tails sticking out of it, is unique to Mousehole
Pan Catching FireA 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 HumeThe Cordon Bleu School at a trade fair with its founder, Rosemary Hume Date: 1970
Ships Cook CertificateA certificate awarded by the Shipping Federation School of Nautical Cookery to Alan Sanderson
Mile Oak School, Portslade - Cookery InstructionBoys 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