Cooking Collection (page 7)

Monkey pulling a cats tail on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Chef with pudding on a Christmas card
Chef in a kitchen with a pudding on a Christmas card -- Out of the frying pan into the fire. Date: circa 1890s

Two German boy scouts at camp with a pile of toasted bread between them

Two German boy scouts cooking at camp

German boy scouts enjoying a meal at camp

German boy scout cooking at camp

Boys of the Mussoorie Scout Troop, India
Boys of the Mussoorie Scout Troop, Uttarakhand, India, cooking over a campfire

General Strike 1926: Society women volunteers
In support of the General Strike ladies from society helped, photograph showing volunteers working in Hyde Park, London, in the open air peeling potatoes, Lady Quilter (with tray)

Humorous postcard, soldier on Western Front, WW1
Humorous postcard, British soldier on the Western Front -- I m amongst the Kitcheners, and very nice too. Date: circa 1915

Advert for Dobble, Forbes & Co stoves and ranges 1888
A selection of three matchless combustion heating stoves, kitchen ranges with self-setting and fuel saving and a new portable cast-iron washing copper

Algeria - Nomadic Women performing cooking and textile tasks outside their tent. Date: circa 1910s

WW1 poster, Food, don t waste it
Poster, Food... don t waste it, US Food Administration. circa 1918

Uzbekistan - Nomadic Uzbeks - Tashkent with Yurt and pot
Uzbekistan - Nomadic Uzbeks - Tashkent with Yurt, drying rack, horses and lare cooking pot. Date: circa 1908

Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Meat aspic
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Meat aspic. Miniature. Fol. 76 r

Pan Catching Fire
A 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 Hume
The Cordon Bleu School at a trade fair with its founder, Rosemary Hume Date: 1970

The co-proprietor of Blooms kosher restaurant
Mrs Bloom, co-proprietor with her husband of Londons iconic kosher restaurant. All around her, the bright, cheery, noisy and busy atmosphere which you were likely to find there in the 1960s

Patent Triplex Grate F Pattern with Best Black Porcelain Enamelled finish Date: circa 1920s

Patent Triplex Grates Pattern fitted with G Mantel with Black Porcelain Enamelled finish. Date: circa 1920s

Patent Triplex Grate - Double Oven C pattern with Black Porcelain Enamelled Finish Date: circa 1920s

Patent Triplex Grate C Pattern with Black Porcelain Enamelled finish. Date: circa 1920s

Patent Triplex Grate D Pattern with Grey Porcelain Enamelled finish. Date: circa 1920s

Boy scouts at Jamboree, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Boy scouts enjoying an outdoor activity at a Jamboree in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: 1952

PAUDISS, Cristopher (1630-1666). Still Life. 1660. Baroque art. Oil. RUSSIA. SAINT PETERSBURG. Saint Petersburg. State Hermitage Museum

BRAUN, George (1541-1622). Civitatis Orbis Terrarum (Theatrum orbis terrarum). 1572-1617. Cadiz (1572). Fishing in an almadraba tuna. Etching. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona

Siberian shaman / sorcerer / wizard / healer / medicine man / foreteller - lunch, with a rifle and huskies. Siberia, Russia. April

Electrolux Baby fridge advertisement
Advertisement for the Electrolux Baby refrigerator, as demonstrated by a rather glamorous flapper girl. She looks as if she has just come in from a night on the town and fancies a snack

Edwards Clements, Jeakes and Company
An advertisment for Edwards Clements, Jeakes and Company, cooking, laundry and heat engineers. Their products are ideal for use in institutions, such as hospitals, workhouses, asylums and infirmaries

Hungry Peter the pig cooks for a party, watched through the window by the naughty dogs Rags and Forager who are worried that they won t be invited. Date: 1914

Nursery Rhymes -- old woman, pig on cart
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- an old woman outside a cave, with cooking pot, fire and cat. Below -- a man rides in a horse-drawn cart with a pig in the front. Date: early 20th century

Trade catalogue for Edwardian sweet making utensils 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a variety of sweet making utensils. 1911

Congo - Women from the Kasai region
Democratic Republic of Congo - Women from Kasai. Date: circa 1901

Roman cutlery. SPAIN. Barcelona. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

Christmas Pudding Recipe
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, The Empire Christmas Pudding recipe Date: 1927-1933

Horno de Barro - Argentinian Mud Oven
Horno - a mud adobe-built outdoor oven used by Native Americans and early settlers of North America. Originally introduced to the Iberian Peninsula by the Moors

The Christmas Robbers by William Heath Robinson
A cheery looking cook enjoys forty winks by the kitchen fire, blissfully unaware that an army of mischievous pixies and elves are busy plundering all the Christmas food she has been baking. Date: 1924

Pub landlady stops snack, 1858
" Dip your roll in your own pot at home!" A fierce looking landlady berates a hungry customer caught in the act of helping himself to the contents of her cooking pot

Blondin cooking an omelette in a high-wire act, 19th century
Illustration showing Blondin (1824-1897), the French tight-rope walker and acrobat, cooking an omelette as part of a high wire act

FRIDGE 1970S
A well-stocked fridge, full of dairy products, fruit juice, a ham and egg pie, yoghurt, eggs, wine and even grapefruit in dishes

Turning on the Cooker
Lady models with the new Prince II, Parkinson Crown cooker, in a domestic setting

Is that Enough for Four
Is that enough for four ? Or should I add some more ?

Waitress and customer on comic postcard -- I ve clicked! Date: circa 1910s

Tourist and food in Egypt
A tourist in Egypt rejects a plate of food brought to him by a waiter, as the smell is too offputting for his delicate nose. Date: early 20th century

Young woman prepares a hot meal for her parents in her cottage. Her man stands to one side (looking on admiringly) whilst a pair of young kittens frolic before the fire. Date: circa 1890s

Flavel kitchener
Flavels kitchener, on display at the Great Exhibition 1851, named after William Flavel(1819-1892), iron-founder and businessman. Date: 1851

Keepers of Longships Lighthouse, off Lands End, Cornwall
Three keepers of Longships Lighthouse, off Lands End, Cornwall, in the kitchen area, preparing for their Christmas dinner. Date: circa 1970s

The Christian King by Wilson Barrett (18 February 1846 22 September 1904). First produced at the Princes Theatre in Bristol on 6th November 1902

Boys camping in the 1930s
Boys camping in the great outdoors. One secures the tent, others fetch water and firewood while two more cook up something exciting over teh camp fire. Date: 1932

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