Cooking Collection (page 14)

Boy peeling potatoes

The Secret of the Trolls

Sending the right message

Russian Interior
The home of Tartars in Gastries Bay. Date: 1787

Selling Cakes from Boat
Cooking and selling cakes from a canal-boat in a Dutch town Date: 1904

Restrictions are not finished! 1919
French cook holds up a small morsel of food on a plater, while the lady of the house is looking in a recipe book. Date: 1919

NFS sub-station with external baking oven in yard, WW2
NFS cooks using a brick-built baking oven in the yard of a sub-station

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

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

Making a Christmas Pudding
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster Making the Empire Christmas Pudding Date: 1927-1933

Wholesome - nutritious foods from corn. Poster showing corn products, including corn oil, cornstarch and baked goods. Date 1918?

Advertisement for cookbooks published by John Weik, showing people cooking and eating. Date c1856

There are jobs for you, if trained Complete free course in household training : You learn meal planning, cooking, table service, laundry, cleaning and child care

Birds Custard advertisement 1927
Advertisement for Birds Custard Powder featuring a rather lovely silhouette illustration showing a woman at a stove preparing some more custard for her husband who is slurping it with relish at a

Hunting fishing and forest scenes: shantying, on the lake shore. Date c1867

Cooking in foreign settlement house. Japanese print shows men working in the kitchen of a foreign settlement house in Japan. Date 1860

Harrisons flavoring extracts. Phila. Date c1868

Life in the woods. Print showing men camping in the wilderness. Date c1870 August 31

Kitchen utensils hanging below a spice rack with mint, caraway, thyme, and sage jars. Photo shows 6 utensils including a small pan, meat fork, icing spatula, whole and slotted spoons

Cutting the pies and cakes at the barbeque dinner, Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. Date 1940 Oct

French soldiers eating, 1939
A group of French soldiers enjoying lunch outdoors while standing up in the early weeks of World War II. Date: 1939

Advert for The Ministry of Food 1941
Don t waste it, advert during the Second World War for not wasting food. Cheap and nourishing, ways of cooking potatoes in a varity of appetising

Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers with hot plate 1938
Heres something New! The main cooker is fitted with the " P.R" hot plate closet in lieu of usual plate rack, and thus provides an enclosed space in which food or plates

ATS - cooking for the Army, 1939
Female ATS workers inspecting a boiled roly poly pudding while learning how to cook for the troops in training. Date: 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

Advert for Main Mainstat gas cookers with no stooping
Cooking without stooping. In kitchens where there is more than the usual space available, or where it is desirable to untilize an open-range setting setting the Maintop gas cooker provides a

ATS - new Army cooks in training, 1939
An instructor showing female ATS workers how to regulate the kitchen ovens in order to turn out appetising cakes and buns for the new troops in the early weeks of World War II. Date: 1939

ATS - using a brick field oven in training, 1939
Female ATS workers in training, learning to cook using field equipment in the early weeks of World War Two. Date: 1939

Smiling woman preparing a wholesome feast
A woman wearing a chequered apron and broad smile, leans over the stove and peels potatoes for the roast dinner she is preparing. 1937

How to make a Cornish Pasty: " Bake n well an dish n up vor dinner" !! A large family-size pasty produced for the whole family for dinner Date: 1910

German bard sings in medieval hall
A German bard plays his harp in a smokey medieval hall. Date: Medieval

A woman from Cameroon
People of the Cerere tribe in Senegal preparing a drink by fermenting grain (millet). Date: circa 1910s

Poor Kitchen
The poor kitchen. Date: 1581

Electric devices 1913
Modern electrical devices from 1913: A lady fries herself some eggs for her breakfast in an electric frying pan. A nurse heats some water in a hot water cup

Making popcorn - Romania
A Gypsy woman cooking corn to make popcorn. Date: circa 1910

Silhouette of two soldiers

Senegal - Food Preparation
Preparation of butter and the cooking and grinding of nuts in a Senegalese village Date: circa 1910s

Fishermen by the Danube, Romania
Russian fisherman on the banks of the Danube River at Braila, Romania. Their nets are hanging on racks on the left of this image. Date: 1902

India - Ghati Women Grinding Corn Date: circa 1907

Army field kitchen at Aldershot, Hampshire
An army field kitchen with two soldiers at Aldershot, Hampshire. Camouflage netting can be seen above them, and there is an open tent behind. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1970s

Inhabitants of Tikopia, south west Pacific
Native inhabitants of the small island of Tikopia, in the south west Pacific Ocean, near the Santa Cruz and Solomon Islands. Date: 19th century

Rich Kitchen

Stove 1900
Wood stove, manufactured by Landskrona Foundry, 1900 Date: 1900

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

Cooks presenting three delicacies
A wonderful postcard showing three French cooks presenting three delicious delicacies - a jelly, a terrine and a basket countaining who knows what delicious morsels for ones dining delectation

Breaking an Egg
Breaking an egg into a bowl. Date: 20th century

National Amusement - The Bus Kitchen 1918
If the ministry of food carries out its latest scheme, there should be plenty of excitement in getting ones dinner from the travelling food kichens

Advert for Esse cookers 1938
From beginning to end of every day, a happier cook in every way! From a cheerful beginning in a warm kitchen to a happy ending in front of the fire

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