Early modern recipe books

Wellcome Collection: Brumwich, Anne (& others) (MS160)

Mrs Anne Brumwich her Booke of Receipts or Medicines ffor severall sores and other Infermities. With many additions, by several later 17th cent. hands. The original compiler, Anne Brumwich, writes in an early 17th cent. hand, but some of the additions are much later, one dated 1681 is found...

Wellcome Collection: Bulkeley, Elizabeth (MS.169)

A boke of hearbes and receipts. A boke of hearbes and receipts.

Wellcome Collection: Catchmay, Lady Frances (d.1629) (MS.184a)

"A booke of medicens". Written by several contemporary hands, with a few later 17th cent. additions. On the verso of the second preliminary leaf is an inscription: "This Booke with the others of Medicins, preserues and Cookerye, My lady Catchmay lefte with me to be delivered to her Sonne...

Wellcome Collection: Coley Family (MS1711 )

Receipt book containing cookery receipts in English: with additions by several hands, and a few medical receipts.

Wellcome Collection: Cookery-books: 18th cent. (MS1810)

Collection of cookery receipts, with a few medical and domestic receipts: by several hands. Inscribed in pencil inside the upper cover: 'J. Hodgkin. Oct. 2. 1913'.

Wellcome Collection: English culinary and medical recipe book, 18th century (MS8468)

Collection of cookery and medical recipes transcribed by several members of the Sheldon family, of Weston, Warwickshire. There is no discernible arrangement, each recipe being recorded in turn as it was acquired. Some of the entries are written from the rear of the volume. There are various...

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Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, 18th century (MS6956)

Wellcome Collection: English Recipe Book, early 18th century (MS.7746)

Collection of medical and cookery receipts in a variety of early 18th-century hands. Second quarter, 18th century. Among the authorities named are 'Dr Lowr' [Richard Lower, 1631-1691] (f. 1r.), 'Mrs Stoan the midwife' [Sarah Holmes Stone, fl. 1702-37] (f.2v.), and 'Dr Colbach' [Sir John...

Wellcome Collection: Ex tribus [regnis] arcana (MS2315)

Wellcome Collection: Hughes, Sarah (MS.363)

Mrs Hughes her receipts of her whole Booke written in the yeare 1637. Containeinge: Medica. Chyrurgica. Condita. Culinaria. Including the Spanish text, and an English translation, of 'Libro de recetas de Portugal para hacer peuetes y pastillas y adreçar guantes perfumados'. Written by several...

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