Recipe Collection

A bunch of Rhubarb - delicious with Birds Custard
A bunch of Rhubarb - delicious with Birds Hot Custard Sauce - featuring a recipe for Rhubarb Charlotte Date: 1915

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

Recipe for Pudding
Recipe for Christmas Pudding using McDougalls Flour

Cover design, Over 120 Ways of Using Bread for tasty and delightful dishes. Showing a woman in her kitchen, enjoying some of the results of her baking. Date: circa 1940s

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

Cookery book
Manuscript recipe book in original calf covers, 90 pages and index, with an ownership inscription for Ann Dawson, dated 1724. Date: 1724

RMS Titanic - recipe book owned by William Proctor, brother of Titanic chef Charles Proctor. Hardbound volume with his name and date written on the front

Advert for Certo pure fruit pectin, featuring a recipe for strawberry jam. Date: 1932

Vegetable variety, 1943. Wartime recipes. Date: 1943

Queer fish, 1943. Wartime recipes using fish such as ling, rock salmon, skate and dogfish. 1943

Its in the cooking, 1943. Wartime cooking and recipes. Home front in Britain. Date: 1943

Advert, The Presidents Thanksgiving Cake Advert, The Presidents Thanksgiving Cake
Advert, The Presidents Thanksgiving Cake - Mary Lyles Wilson recipe. 1926

Appetising and inexpensive dishes made with Beefex, a beef extract. Date: c. 1920s

Cupid with cooking guidance on a comic Valentine card
Cupid with culinary guidance, How to Cook a Heart, on a comic Valentine card. Date: circa 1890s

FRENCH PASTRY BOOK C17
Le Pastissier Francois: a famous cookery book featuring a plethora of pastry preparations. Date: 1665

The house-keepers pocket-book

Cocktails in The Sketch, 1920s
Page from The Sketch full of advertisements relating to the cocktail craze of the 1920s. Drinks advertised include Vermouth, Cointreau

Recipe for Lancashire hot pot by Mrs Beeton
Mrs Beetons recipe for Lancashire hot pot Date: 1907

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

Ministry of Food poster, WW2, advertising various information leaflets, recipes, etc. Date: 1940s

The Empire Cookery Book - Front Cover
The Empire Cookery Book - complied by Marguerite Fedden - Front Cover. Date: 1920s

The Empire Cookery Book - Title Page Date: 1920s

Sketch cover - midnight cocktail for the Midnight Ball
Front cover of The Sketch magazine with an illustration displaying the recipe for a midnight cocktail which would be served at the magazines Midnight Ball held at the Savoy Hotel in June 1914

WW2 birthday card, baking a cake. Date: circa 1942

Cookery for Invalids and Others, 1897
The front cover of Cookery for Invalids and Others by Lizzie Heritage. Date: 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

Brewing. Published in The Arts and Industry of all Nations around 1860 by Charles Knight. Engraving

Brewers Vat. Illustration from London (Volume IV) published by Charles Knight in London in 1841. Engraving

Parmentier, Antoine Augustin (1737-1813). Vocal promoter of the potato as a food source for humans in France and throughout Europe. Engraving

Suffragette Recipe for Cabinet Pudding. Method, Take one fresh young suffragette, add a large slice of her own importance, and as much sauce as you like

War Time Pudding with Oxo, 1918
Advertisement for Oxo from the First World War, suggesting that the versatile stock cube could help out your meat ration. A new Oxo dish prepared by an unidentified celebrated chef

Dried egg recipes 1945
Dried egg recipes: Scrambled omelet eggs, curried eggs, rissoles, meat vegetable cakes, cabbage rissoles and Spanish bread. Date: 1945

Advertisement for Atora suet
The Recipe book of Atora, the good beef suet Date: 1929

Brachiopods mounted with Chinese medicinal recipe
Fossil brachiopods (Sinospirifer chaoi Grabau) from the Upper Devonian, probably South China; purchased from a Chinese drug store in Singapore, prsed Prof. C.H.R. Koenigswald 1949

Italian advertisements, 1941. Advertisement of

Advert for Hugons Atora beef suet 1937
Hugons Atora beef suet, with recipes for Christmas pudding and mincemeat for mince pies. 1937

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

Recipe for a midsummer hotpot
Wartime recipe, incorporating a multitude of vegetables along with bacon scaps and cheese

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

Paper is placed in the printing press
A printer at a print works removes a large printed page from the printing press. The sheet depicts food items, possibly for a recipe book or calendar. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Imperial Xmas Pud Recipe
A recipe for Christmas Pudding which uses only ingredients from The British Empire

Beeton Meat Dishes, 1865
Various dishes including roast calfs head, garnished ham, roast side of mutton, knuckle of veal with rice, and spare rib of pork

Children Cooking
Three children baking a cake in their kitchen

Reading a Cook Book
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