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Background imageCookery Collection: Cookery for Invalids and Others, inside pages, 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

Background imageCookery Collection: Tatler cover - Mrs Burleigh Leach

Tatler cover - Mrs Burleigh Leach
Front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring a portrait of Mrs Burleigh Leach, wife of Brigadier-General Burleigh Leach and Controller of Inspection

Background imageCookery Collection: Cookery school

Cookery school
A young ladies school of cookery in Tremont Street, Boston, United States Date: 1880

Background imageCookery Collection: Mrs C. S. Peel, 1917

Mrs C. S. Peel, 1917
Dorothy Constance Peel, 1868-1934, aka Mrs CS Peel, prolific journalist and writer of numerous books on household management and domestic history

Background imageCookery Collection: Trench Cooking for Women

Trench Cooking for Women
Cookery lessons in a trench dug-out - a special feature at Kings College for Women, London, as training for nurses leaving for the front. Date: 1915

Background imageCookery Collection: Hungry Peter the pig plans for a party

Hungry Peter the pig plans for a party
Hungry Peter the pig prepares for a party by planning an elaborate menu. Date: 1914

Background imageCookery Collection: A food hygiene course

A food hygiene course
Two chefs prepare food infront of a predominantly female audience who take notes and listen keenly to the two experts. The blackboard behind the cooks has details of todays dishes which include beef

Background imageCookery Collection: Cookery Class 1930S

Cookery Class 1930S
A cookery class for brides-to- be (and one man in an apron, presumably one of the teachers!), Paris, France. Date: early 1930s

Background imageCookery Collection: Boys Cookery Class

Boys Cookery Class
A jolly group photograph of a classroom of boys, with their teacher, at the London County Council School of Cookery for boys. Date: 1930s

Background imageCookery Collection: Japan - A Japanese Cook

Japan - A Japanese Cook. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageCookery Collection: Bronze cooking utensils recovered from Pompeii, Italy

Bronze cooking utensils recovered from Pompeii, Italy
Bronze cooking utensils recovered from excavations at Pompeii, Italy. Date: 1906

Background imageCookery Collection: Russia, Street Utensil Seller

Russia, Street Utensil Seller. Date: circa 1901

Background imageCookery Collection: Pig cooking with egg

Pig cooking with egg

Background imageCookery Collection: AFS women undergoing catering instruction, WW2

AFS women undergoing catering instruction, WW2
London regular and AFS firefighters spent many hours, sometimes days, at incidents during the Blitz. Seen here are women of the AFS learning to prepare and cook meals for those on the Blitz front line

Background imageCookery Collection: Auxiliary London firewomen under catering instruction

Auxiliary London firewomen under catering instruction
London regular and AFS firefighters spent many hours, sometimes days, at incidents during the Blitz, and they needed refreshments

Background imageCookery Collection: Valentines Postcard - Chef makes Sweet Hearts

Valentines Postcard - Chef makes Sweet Hearts Lets be Sweet hearts together. Date: 1907

Background imageCookery Collection: National Training School of Cookery / Domestic Economy

National Training School of Cookery / Domestic Economy
The National Training School of Cookery and other branches of Domestic Economy, London. The Needlework and Dressmaking Room. Date: circa 1907

Background imageCookery Collection: Women at Army Cookery School, 1939

Women at Army Cookery School, 1939
A merry moment during peeling onions with the new Army cooks at an Army cookery school in the south of England in the early weeks of World War II. Date: 1939

Background imageCookery Collection: Calfs head for carving

Calfs head for carving
Diagram showing how to carve a calfs head. Calfs head had many culinary uses in the Victorian kitchen, including a key ingredient in mock turtle soup

Background imageCookery Collection: Mexico - Lady making tortillas

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

Background imageCookery Collection: Fish Cookery Class

Fish Cookery Class
Ladies in fur coats watching a cookery class, possibly for television, where the cook is demonstrating the art of oven fried fish! Date: 1960s

Background imageCookery Collection: Mrs Beetons rich bride or christening cake, 1891

Mrs Beetons rich bride or christening cake, 1891
Recipe for a rich bride or christening cake, 1891. Date: 1891

Background imageCookery Collection: Cake and cake maker, 1898

Cake and cake maker, 1898
Advertisement for Robert McGhies icing powder, as produced by the British Malt Products Co, London. Used by all the icing experts and leading confectioners of the world. Date: 1898

Background imageCookery Collection: Chief Cook of the Janissaries

Chief Cook of the Janissaries
Elchi Bashi or Chief Cook of the Janissaries. Military officer with cooking pots and implements as part of his uniform. 1803

Background imageCookery Collection: Brazilians mashing turtle eggs

Brazilians mashing turtle eggs
Native indians of Brazil cooking al fresco: mashing turtle eggs in a large trough. Date: 19th century

Background imageCookery Collection: Turtle, swallows nests and oxtail

Turtle, swallows nests and oxtail
Victorian cooking ingredients: turtle, swallows nests and oxtail. Date: 19th century

Background imageCookery Collection: Emperor Meneliks Bodyguard

Emperor Meneliks Bodyguard - seemingly at some form of exhibition/Intenrational show in Germany as the kitchen sign is in German. Date: 1907

Background imageCookery Collection: Cookery lesson, Askham Grange Prison, North Yorkshire

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

Background imageCookery Collection: Manual of Workhouse Cookery, cover

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

Background imageCookery Collection: Cookery by Millicent Sowerby

Cookery by Millicent Sowerby
A group of girl guides busy in a kitchen making pastry and cakes

Background imageCookery Collection: Young ladies Preparatory School 1858

Young ladies Preparatory School 1858
Preparatory School for young ladies, where they are urged to become good housewives and know something about the art of cookery

Background imageCookery Collection: Cookery class, Training Ship Wellesley, North Shields

Cookery class, Training Ship Wellesley, North Shields
Boys taking part in a cookery class on the Training Ship Wellesley, on the River Tyne at North Shields, Northumberland. In 1868

Background imageCookery Collection: Education, girls, cookery

Education, girls, cookery
A well equipped cookery class. One girl slices, some use mixing bowls, some are at the sink washing and drying. A selection of cakes cool on baking racks in the foreground

Background imageCookery Collection: Cookery education, 1955

Cookery education, 1955
Two small girls in aprons at Harwich Road Primary, Colchester, sit at a table outdoors and roll pastry with rolling pins

Background imageCookery Collection: A French kitchen

A French kitchen
A chef and maid prepare a sumptuous meal in a French kitchen. Dough has been rolled out on the side board and the chef decorates a three-tiered cake with flowers

Background imageCookery Collection: Making Pastry

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

Background imageCookery Collection: Skinning a Rabbit for Dinner

Skinning a Rabbit for Dinner
A housewife, determined to take on the domestic duties that their servant currently carries out, gets to grips with skinning a rabbit for dinner

Background imageCookery Collection: Adverts for Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management

Adverts for Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management
Two pages of advertisements for Mrs Beetons Book of Household Management and other Cookery Books, still going strong in the early 20th century

Background imageCookery Collection: Modern Domestic Cookery

Modern Domestic Cookery
The exterior of the book Modern Domestic Cookery by Mrs Maria Rundell, a revision of her original A New System of Domestic Cookery

Background imageCookery Collection: Preparing Rissoles

Preparing Rissoles
A photograph from the National Societys Training College for Teachers of Domestic Economy showing a female student preparing vegetarian macaroni rissoles

Background imageCookery Collection: Lecture on Cookery at the International Exhibition

Lecture on Cookery at the International Exhibition
Lecture on cookery attended by a well-heeled crowd at the London International Exhibition of 1873. The short lectures, by Mr Buckmaster

Background imageCookery Collection: National Training School of Cookery at South Kensington. Mo

National Training School of Cookery at South Kensington. Mo
The National Training School of Cookery was established in 1873, and commenced its work at South Kensington in 1874 with a view to promote generally the diffusion of a knowledge of cookery amongst

Background imageCookery Collection: National Training School of Cookery at South Kensington: Aft

National Training School of Cookery at South Kensington: Aft
A lecture on practical cookery, seasoning fricandeau of veal at the National School of Cookery at South Kensington. The school was established in 1873

Background imageCookery Collection: Housewife Makes Jam 1911

Housewife Makes Jam 1911
LES CONFITURES A French housewife makes jams and jellies

Background imageCookery Collection: Nursery, rhyme, The Queen of Hearts, Caldecott, 1 of 8

Nursery, rhyme, The Queen of Hearts, Caldecott, 1 of 8
The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts... She swots up on some pre-cookery reading... The Art of Making Tarts and the History of Jams

Background imageCookery Collection: Mutton Cotelettes

Mutton Cotelettes
Cotelettes de mouton chaudfroid a l Indienne (lamb)

Background imageCookery Collection: Game Chaudfroid

Game Chaudfroid
Chaudfroid de volaille en Belle Vue (game)



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