Cooking Collection

Diego Velazquez (1599-1660). Old Woman Cooking Eggs, 1618
Diego Velazquez (1599-1660). Spanish Baroque painter. The Old Woman Cooking Eggs, 1618. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

A selection of copper border and jelly moulds

Old Gypsy Man & Pet Dog
At an encampment in Surrey an old Gypsy man sits on a can close to the fire

Irish Cottage
Irish cottage, Achill Island

Primus Stove
THE PRIMUS STOVE North, South, East or West Primus is best

A selection of jelly and cake moulds

Poster, The Vegetabull, a vegetable dish made with dried eggs or household milk is as good as a joint (post-WW2 rationing was still going on at this time). 1947

Group photo, Claridges Hotel kitchen staff, Mayfair, London W1. Date: 1908

Buzzini Building, New York
Building, Walter J. Buzzini, 505 West 21st Street. View from above and across the street of Walter J. Buzzin, Inc. manufacturers of cooking utensils at 505 West 21st Street; many signs on building, in

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

Chef Strirring It
A chef stirring a large bowl with a huge spatula. Date: early 1930s

WW2 - Chef cooking in a bombed-out street - Blitz, London
WW2 - His restaurant and kitchen destroyed by German bombing, a Chef continues to cook al fresco in a bombed-out street - Blitz, London. Date: circa 1941

Policeman talk to Gypsies on Epsom Downs
Two Policeman talk to a Gypsy family by their caravan and wagon on Epsom Downs Date: circa 1920s

Economics a la Heath Robinson
Do not scrap your disused lighting, heating, or cooking apparatus; they can be easily adapted to other requirements

Possession is nine points of the law by Louis Wain
Illustration by Louis Wain showing a cat occupying a cast-off saucepan or cooking pot during snowy weather. A selection of birds, including a magpie and a blue tit bemusedly face the cat

Latest 1950S Kitchen
Woman enjoys cooking in her new kitchen fitted with all the latest mod-cons

1960S Kitchen
A classic kitchen, with a dresser, folding table, gas cooker with whistle kettle, trendy floor tiles and various types of kitchenalia

Cover for Brochure advertising Triplex Grates / Ranges
A cook proudly produces a loaf - another successful piece of cooking using her Triplex Garte / Range. Date: circa 1927

Can Openers, Skewers Etc
Can openers, sharpening steels, cutlet bats/beaters, larding pins, trussing needles, hatchet, skewers and steak tongs

Don t Waste Bread Wwi
Poster advising the public to eat less bread, and save two thick slices a day to defeat the U-boats during WWI. Thats a dangerous way to cut bread!

Primus Stove 1932
The Primus stove is an indispensable item in any campers equipment, burning paraffin gas without a wick, pumped by hand and extremely efficient

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

Puff Pastry Recipies
A woman makes various things out of puff pastry

International baking powder. Manufactured by Queen City Chemical Co. Buffalo, N.Y. Advertisement for International brand baking powder, showing a cat awakened by bread rising. Date c1885

Poster advertising Pettijohns breakfast food, showing Red Riding Hood -- or is it Goldilocks? -- and a family of bears sharing an outdoor breakfast together in the woods

Raleigh / Potatoes / Ireland
SIR WALTER RALEIGH English navigator supervising the first planting of potatoes in Ireland

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

Meat Mincer 1889
The Enterprise meat chopper, or mincer, is apparently the best in the world

Deep-Fat Fryer
An oval shaped deep-fat fryer with removable basket for frying fish and chips, or perhaps I should say pomme frites as it is French

Arriving home to Supper
A couple arrive home to find their supper is ready in the Patent Triplex Grate

Kazakh yurt in cross section, Kazakhstan
Kazakh yurt in cross section with ornaments. A cauldron for cooking is in the middle, with storage chests, furniture, crockery and kitchenware. 20th century

Alice in Wonderland, Duchess, cook and baby
Alice in Wonderland, Alice meets the Duchess, her cook and a screaming baby. Date: early 20th century

Advertisement for Viota "Afternoon Tea"cake mixture
Advertisement for Viota " Afternoon Tea" cake mixture, one packet makes 18 of the most delicious home-made cakes in the world. Date: 1924

Page of Victorian adverts - 1890
Various adverts for The Graphic, May 1890. May 1890

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Late XIV century. Women making a crown w
Tacuinum Sanitatis. Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on observations of medical order detailing the most important aspects of food, beverages and clothing

John Laverick, SBS on Crete during Operation Albumen - WWII
John Laverick, SBS and famed cook!) preparing a meal on Crete during Operation Albumen

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

Advert for English Rose kitchens 1952
Young housewife cooking in her new English Rose fitted kitchen. Comes with a cause of softglow worktop colours, scarlet red, steel blue and amulet green. Date: 1952

Brochure advertising Triplex Grates / Ranges
A cook proudly produces a loaf - another successful piece of cooking using her Triplex Garte / Range. Home made with Triplex! Date: circa 1920s

Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers 1938
Providing ample accommodation for all the food and untensils required in cooking for a family of 6 to 8

Lin-Can advertisement, 1953
Advertisement for Lin-Can tinned fruits and vegetables manufactured by Lincolnshire Canners of Boston, Lincolnshire

Woman Cooking 1960S
A woman in an apron holds a saucepan ready over the hob as she turns it on

Typhoid Mary
MARY MALLON, (1869-1938) known as Typhoid Mary; though herself healthy, she is a carrier of typhoid and, employed as a cook, infects 22, one of whom dies

Japanese Woman Cooking
A young Japanese housewife cooking the family meal in her well-equipped kitchen. Chopsticks will be used for eating and the rice will be served in wooden cases. Date: 1930s

Copper Moulds
Copper jelly and cream moulds - the more elaborate cost as much as 18 shillings, a great deal of money in those days, 30 or more in year 2000 term"

Street Market Food, Fine Sausages Date: 18th century

Wheel worked by dog - turning roasting spit, Carmarthenshire
Wheel worked by a dog for turning the roasting spit - used until the end of the first quarter of the 19th century. This example was the property of the late Sir John Williams, Bart

French street trader selling hot roasted chestnuts 1908
Parisienne woman holding out a small bag to receive some hot roasted chestnuts from a street trader. Date: 1908

Gallaghers Steak House, New York City, USA
View of the Bar in Gallaghers Steak House, West 52nd Street, New York City, USA. Famous for steaks broiled over hickory logs, private dining room available for beefsteak parties. Date: circa 1930s

Interior of a jacal (shack). 1853. Oil. MEXICO

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

Alice & the Duchess
Alice with the duchess in the chaotic kitchen Date: First published: 1865

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

Canada - Ojibwa Girl cleaning the catch
The Ojibwa is the largest group of Native American peoples north of Mexico. They are equally divided between the United States and Canada

Seminole Indians - USA, Florida, Everglades
The Everglades, Florida, USA. Seminole Indians on the Tamiami Trail. The Kitchen of Chesnut Billys Indian Camp. The Tamiami Trail was opened in 1928

Alexis Soyer Cooking
ALEXIS SOYER noted chef and authority on gastronomy, seen cooking amid the ruins of the Parthenon at Athens en route to the Crimea

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

Man in the Kitchen C1905
Letting your husband loose in the kitchen can be very risky; here, a pot boils over, eggshells litter the floor, and the cat laps spilt milk

CREPE PAN
A flat-bottomed, shallow frying pan made for cooking crepes or pancakes to perfection

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White makes herself useful in the home of the Seven Dwarfs

Group photo, Carlton Hotel kitchen staff, London, posing on the hotel roof in November 1908. Date: 1908

Paper bag design, c. 1890
Paper bag design from the late nineteenth century for Albert Smith, Baker, Confectioner and Corn Factor, of Derby Road, Nottingham, featuring a rather lovely border showing various crops

Trainee Chefs 1930S
Two student chefs at the Gordon Fellowes School of Domestic Service. Date: early 1930s

Geese unhappy at the arrival of Michaelmas
A gaggle of geese are unhappy to read a notice that the season of Michaelmas has begun. Eating goose at Michaelmas was thought to bring good luck, but that did not apply to geese

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

Lemon Squeezer 1889
A lemon squeezer manufactured by Merritt & Chambers of Birmingham

Silhouette, To Have a Finger in the Pie
To Have a Finger in the Pie -- silhouette of a man in a tall hat (probably a chef) tasting a pie

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

Making Jam C19
Making jam Date: mid 19th century

A selection of assorted pastry cutters

Karo Syrup Advert
Why do thousands of women say that wherever there is Karo, there is good cooking - and a real pride in the family table?

Jolly Plump Cook 1640
A jolly, plump cook (surrounded by poultry and other meats) proudly holds up a freshly made pie, decorated with a feather

Kenwood Mixer C1950S
A Kenwood mixer

Hugging Couple / Kitchen
An elegant young couple in the kitchen: she cooks crepes, he whispers sweet-nothings into her ear

Cooking Crepes 1911
A French family watch mama toss crepes in a pan by the fire

Shes Baked a Pie
She has baked a pie in her Servall grate - 63, 000 sold since 1920 !

Girl Peels Potatoes 1878
A little girl sits in the kitchen peeling potatoes, while the cat watches her

Tin Cooking Moulds
Tin Moulds for Sweets and Savouries

Peter & Paul Fortress
A view of the town and habour of St Peter and St Paul, in Kamtschatka. Probably the Peter & Paul Fortress in the Neva delta which was used as a political prison

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

Lady Cook & Boars Head
The cook bears in the Boars Head

Pioneer settlers outside their log cabin. A woman cooks over a fire, watched by two children

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