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Diego Velazquez (1599-1660). Old Woman Cooking Eggs, 1618Diego 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 DogAt an encampment in Surrey an old Gypsy man sits on a can close to the fire
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
A selection of jelly and cake moulds
Irish CottageIrish cottage, Achill Island
12458362Group photo, Claridges Hotel kitchen staff, Mayfair, London W1. Date: 1908
Joy of Perfect CookingThe Joys of Perfect Cooking promises delicious food for the home. Woman, women, kitchen, advert advertising, advertisement
Latest 1950S KitchenWoman enjoys cooking in her new kitchen fitted with all the latest mod-cons
Chef Strirring ItA chef stirring a large bowl with a huge spatula. Date: early 1930s
WW2 - Chef cooking in a bombed-out street - Blitz, LondonWW2 - 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 DownsTwo Policeman talk to a Gypsy family by their caravan and wagon on Epsom Downs Date: circa 1920s
Economics a la Heath RobinsonDo not scrap your disused lighting, heating, or cooking apparatus; they can be easily adapted to other requirements. Please note
Possession is nine points of the law by Louis WainIllustration 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
1960S KitchenA 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 / RangesA cook proudly produces a loaf - another successful piece of cooking using her Triplex Garte / Range. Date: circa 1927
Can Openers, Skewers EtcCan openers, sharpening steels, cutlet bats/beaters, larding pins, trussing needles, hatchet, skewers and steak tongs
Don t Waste Bread WwiPoster 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!
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
Primus StoveTHE PRIMUS STOVE North, South, East or West Primus is best
Christmas Cookery C1905Preparing the Christmas dinner for all the family, not forgetting the kitten and the Household Gnome
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
Puff Pastry RecipiesA 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
Buzzini Building, New YorkBuilding, 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
Older Woman Baking 1947An older woman wearing a flowery apron rolls out pastry for some home baking
Primus Stove 1932The Primus stove is an indispensable item in any campers equipment, burning paraffin gas without a wick, pumped by hand and extremely efficient
Deep-Fat FryerAn oval shaped deep-fat fryer with removable basket for frying fish and chips, or perhaps I should say pomme frites as it is French
Raleigh / Potatoes / IrelandSIR WALTER RALEIGH English navigator supervising the first planting of potatoes in Ireland
Meat Mincer 1889The Enterprise meat chopper, or mincer, is apparently the best in the world
Arriving home to SupperA couple arrive home to find their supper is ready in the Patent Triplex Grate
Kazakh yurt in cross section, KazakhstanKazakh yurt in cross section with ornaments. A cauldron for cooking is in the middle, with storage chests, furniture, crockery and kitchenware. 20th century
Lin-Can advertisement, 1953Advertisement for Lin-Can tinned fruits and vegetables manufactured by Lincolnshire Canners of Boston, Lincolnshire, featuring two excitable housewives keen to demonstrate the endless possibilities
John Laverick, SBS on Crete during Operation Albumen - WWIIJohn Laverick, SBS and famed cook!) preparing a meal on Crete during Operation Albumen. Photograph taken by Colonel David Sutherland of SBS and SAS
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
Advert for English Rose kitchens 1952Young 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 / RangesA 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 1938Providing ample accommodation for all the food and untensils required in cooking for a family of 6 to 8. This is one of the popular Main gas cookers obtainable in all-enamel
Woman Cooking 1960SA woman in an apron holds a saucepan ready over the hob as she turns it on
Typhoid MaryMARY 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
Advertisement for Viota "Afternoon Tea"cake mixture, one packet makes 18 of the mostAdvertisement 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 - 1890Various adverts for The Graphic, May 1890. May 1890
Wheel worked by dog - turning roasting spit, CarmarthenshireWheel 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
Gallaghers Steak House, New York City, USAView 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
Copper MouldsCopper 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