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• Cooking -- Early works to 1800
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• The Accomplisht Cook: or, The Art and Mystery of Cookery (fifth edition; London: Printed for O. Blagrave, 1685), by Robert May (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, Which Far Exceeds Any Thing of the Kind Yet Published (new edition London: Printed for A. Millar et al., 1767), by Hannah Glasse, contrib. by Andrew Millar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book for Receipts (manuscript, cover dated 1731) (PDF at vt.edu)
• A Book of Cookrye (1591), by A. W. (HTML at jducoeur.org)
• The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion (14th edition; London: Printed for R. Ware et al., 1750), by E. Smith
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• The Cook's Pocket-Companion and Compleat Family-Guide: Being a Collection of the Very Best Receipts (London: Printed for J. Staples, 1758), by Lydia Honeywood (page images at NIH)
• The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm (sixth edition, ca. 1732), by Richard Bradley (Gutenberg text)
• The English Art of Cookery, According to the Present Practice (London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1788), by Richard Briggs (multiple formats at Google)
• English Housewifry, Exemplified in Above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts, Giving Directions in Most Parts of Cookery (ninth edition; Leeds: Printed for G. Copperthwaite, 1764), by Elizabeth Moxon (multiple formats at Google)
• The Family's Best Friend, or The Whole Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy: Together With a Complete System of Brewery; The Management of Malt Liquors; The Distillery of Simple and Compound Waters, Family Cordials, &c; and Instructions for the Cultivating of the Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen Garden (6th edition; London: Printed for C. Henderson, ca. 1755), by Arabella Fairfax (page images at NIH)
• The Forme of Cury, A Roll of Ancient English Cookery, Compiled, About A. D. 1390, by the Master-Cooks of King Richard II (London: Printed by J. Nichols, printer to the Society of Antiquaries, 1780), contrib. by Samuel Pegge
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• The Modern Cook, and Frugal Housewife's Compleat Guide to Every Branch in Displaying Her Table to the Greatest Advantage (Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed for the author, 1782), by E. Spencer (page images at NIH)
• A New Booke of Cookerie (some front matter not transcribed; London: Printed for Iohn Browne, 1615), by John Murrell (HTML in Germany)
• A Proper Newe Book of Cokerye (London: J. Kynge and T. Marche, ca. 1570) (HTML in Germany)
• The Queen-Like Closet, or Rich Cabinet, Stored with All Manner of Rare Receipts for Preserving, Candying and Cookery: Very Pleasant and Benefical to All Ingenious Persons of the Female Sex (second edition; London: Printed for R. Lowndes, 1672), by Hannah Woolley (page images in Barcelona)
• Recipe Book (manuscript, 1705), by D. Petre (page images here at Penn)
• A True Gentlewomans Delight, Wherein is Contained All Manner Of Cookery; Together with Preserving, Conserving, Drying And Candying (London: W. I. Gent, 1653), by Elizabeth Grey Kent (HTML at Michigan)
• The Country Housewife's Family Companion (originally published 1750), by William Ellis (HTML and PDF with commenary at soilandhealth.org)
• A Good Huswifes Handmaide for the Kitchin (possibly imperfect transcription of a 1594 London cookbook) (illustrated HTML with commentary at Foods of England)
• A Noble Boke Off Cookry Ffor a Prynce Houssolde or Eny Other Estately Houssolde: Reprinted Verbatim From a Rare Ms. in the Holkham Collection (London: Elliot Stock, 1882), ed. by Robina Napier (text at medievalcookery.com)
• The English House-Wife: Containing the Inward and Outward Vertues Which Ought to Be in a Compleat Woman (London: Printed for G. Sawbridge, 1675), by Gervase Markham (page images in Barcelona)
• The London art of cookery and domestic housekeepers' complete assistant : uniting the principles of elegance, taste, and economy : and adapted to the use of servants, and families of every description ... (Printed for Scatcherd and Letterman ..., 1811), by John Farley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Noble boke off cookry ffor a prynce houssolde or eny other estately houssolde : reprinted verbatim from a rare ms. in the Holkham collection (Elliot Stock, 1882), by Robina Napier and Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The forme of cury : a roll of ancient English cookery, compiled, about A.D. 1390, by the master-cooks of King Richard II, presented afterwards to Queen Elizabeth, by Edward Lord Stafford, and now in the possession of Gustavus Brander, Esq. (Printed by J. Nichols, printer to the Society of Antiquaries, 1785), by Arthur William Devis, James Basire, and Samuel Pegge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The experienced English house-keeper : for the use and ease of ladies, house-keepers, cooks, &c. : wrote purely from practice and dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton ... : consisting of near 800 original receipts, most of which never appeared in print ... (Printed by J. Harrop for the author, and sold by Messrs. Fletcher and Anderson ... London, and by Eliz. Raffald, confectioner ... Manchester, 1769), by Elizabeth Raffald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The house-keeper's pocket-book; and compleat family cook. Containing above seven hundred curious and uncommon receipts ... Concluding with many excellent prescriptions ... extracted from the writings of the most eminent physicians (R. Ware, 1739), by Sarah Harrison and Mary Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• The professed cook; or, The modern art of cookery, pastry, & confectionary, made plain and easy; consisting of the most approved methods in the French, as well as English cookery ... With the addition of the best receipts, which have ever appeared in the French or English languages. (Printed by C. Richards, No. 18, Warwick Street, Golden Square; for T. Simpson, No. 337, Oxford Street., 1812), by active 18th century Menon, Samuel Chamberlain, Narcissa G. Chamberlain, and B. Clermont (page images at HathiTrust)
• The country housewife and lady's director, in the management of a house, and the delights and profits of a farm. Part II including a great variety of the most curious receipts ... To which is added from a poulterer in St. Jame's-Market, the manner of trussing all sorts of poultry ... (Printed for D. Browne and T. Woodman, 1732), by Richard Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of cookery made plain and easy : which far exceeds any thing of the kind yet published... to which are added, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts, and also fifty receipts for different articles of perfumery, with a copious index (W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons,..., 1784), by Hannah Glasse, Sue Hanna, and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of receipts in cookery, physick and surgery : for the use of all good wives, tender mothers, and careful nurses (Printed for Henry Morris and sold by City Wide Press, 1958), by Mary Kettilby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The universal cook, and city and country housekeeper. : Containing all the various branches of cookery; the different methods of dressing butchers meat, poultry, game, and fish; and of preparing gravies, cullices, soups, and broths; ... With a catalogue of the various articles in season in the different months of the year. Besides a variety of useful and interesting tables. The whole embellished with the heads of the authors, bills of fare for every month in the year, and proper subjects for the improvement of the art of carving, elegantly engraved on fourteen copper-plates. (Printed by R. Noble, for J. Scatcherd ..., 1797), by Francis Collingwood, Richard Noble, John Woollams, and American Institute of Wine & Food (page images at HathiTrust)
• The London art of cookery, and housekeeper's complete assistant. : On a new plan. Made plain and easy to the understanding of every housekeeper, cook, and servant in the kingdom. Containing proper directions for the choice of all kind of provisions ... to which is appended, an appendix, containing considerations on culinary poisons; directions for making broths, &c. for the sick; a list of things in season in the different months of the year; marketing tables, &c. &c. Also, a bill of fare for every month in the year. (Printed for messrs. Price, Sleater, Lynch, Whitestone, Burnet, Walker, White, Moncrieffe, Beatty, Burton Byrne, Perrin, and Cash.,, 1783), by John Farley and American Institute of Wine & Food (page images at HathiTrust)
• The London art of cookery, and Housekeeper's complete assistant. : On a new plan. Made plain and easy to the understanding of every housekeeper, cook, and servant, in the Kingdom. Containing, proper directions for the choice of all kinds of provisions ... to which is added, an appendix, containing considerations on culinary poisons; directions for making broths, &c. for the sick; a list of things in season in the different months of the year; marketing tables, &c. &c. Embellished with a head of the author, and a bill of fare for every month in the year, elegantly engraven on thirteen copper-plates. (Printed by John Barker .. for James Scatcherd ... [and 8 others], 1800), by John Farley, James Scatcherd, John Barker, and American Institute of Wine & Food (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of cookery, made plain and easy : which far exceeds any thing of the kind ever yet published, containing ... (Printed for the author, and sold at the Bluecoat-Boy, near the Royal-Exchange, at Mrs. Ashburn's China-Shop, the corner of Fleet-Ditch, at the Leg and Dial, in Fleet Street, at the Prince of Wales's Arms, in Tavistock-Street, Covent-Garden, at Mr. Trye's, near Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn, and by the booksellers in town and country, 1751), by Hannah Glasse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The housekeeper's instructor; or, universal family cook. Being an ample and clear display of the art of cookery in all its various branches. Containing proper directions for dressing all kinds of butcher's meat, poultry, game, fish, &c. Also, the method of preparing soups, hashes, and made dishes; with the whole art of confectionary, pickling, preserving, &c. Likewise the making and keeping in perfection British wines; and proper rules for brewing malt liquor, as well as for family consumption as the regale of private visitants. To which is added, the complete art of carving, illustrated with engravings ... Also, bills of fare for every month in the year; with copper-plates displaying the best manner of decorating a table ... together with directions for marketing, and the management of the kitchen and fruit-garden. The whole formed on so new a plan, the the inexperienced will be instructed, and the professed cook receive that information which has never been made known by any preceding publication. / by William Augustus Henderson, who has made the culinary art his study for upwards of forty years (Printed and sold by W. and J. Stratford ..., 1790), by W. A. Henderson, John Stratford, William Stratford, and American Institute of Wine & Food (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleat housewife: or, Accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion: : being a collection of upwards of six hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials. With copper plates curiously engraven for the regular disposition of placing the various dishes and courses. And also bills of fare for every month in the year. To which is added, a collection of above three hundred family receipts of medicines: viz. drinks, syrups, salves, ointments ... (Printed for J. and J. Pemberton ..., 1739), by E. Smith, John Pemberton, and American Institute of Wine & Food (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of cookery, made plain and easy; : which far exceeds any thing of the kind yet published, containing ... To which are added, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts, and a copious index. (Printed for a Company of Booksellers, and sold by L. Wangford, in Fleet-Street, and all other booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland ..., 1770), by Hannah Glasse, L. Wangford, and American Institute of Wine & Food (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete art of cookery : exhibited in a plain and easy manner, with directions for marketing, the season of the year for butchers' meat, poultry, fish, &c. : embellished with engravings, shewing the art of trussing, carving, etc. etc. etc. (H. Quelch, 1828), by Hannah Glasse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The frugal housewife: or, complete woman cook. Wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands, with cleanliness, decency, and elegance, is explained in five hundred approved receipts... Together with the best methods of potting, collaring, preserving, drying, candying, pickling, and making domestic wines, to which are added, various bills of fare, and a proper arrangement of dinners, two courses, for every month of the year... (Matthew Carey, 1802), by Susannah Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The London art of cookery, and housekeeper's complete assistant : on a new plan : made plain and easy to the understanding of every housekeeper, cook, and servant in the kingdom ... : to which is added, an appendix ... : embellished with a head of the author, and a bill of fare for every month in the year, elegantly engraved on thirteen copper-plates (Printed for J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker ... B. Law ... and G. and T. Wilkie ..., 1787), by John Farley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Family dictionary (Printed for H. Rhodes ..., 1710), by William Salmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compleat housewife (Printed for J. Pemberton ..., 1729), by E. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of cookery made plain and easy : which far excels any thing of the kind yet published ... in which are included one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts, not inserted in any former edition with a copious index (Printed for T. Longman [et al.], 1796), by Hannah Glasse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two fifteenth-century cookery-books : Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55. (Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1888), by Eleanor Lowenstein, Thomas Austin, American Institute of Wine & Food, and British Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• The experienced English Housekeeper,: for the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c. written purely from practice, and dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, whom the Author lately served as Housekeeper ; : consisting of near Nine Hundred Original Recipes, most of which never appeared in Print ... (Printed for the Author and sold by R. Baldwin, 1778), by Elizabeth Raffald and R. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The house-keeper's pocket-book, and complete family cook: : containing above twelve hundred curious and uncommon receipts in cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, candying, collaring, &c. With plain and easy instructions for preparing and dressing every thing suitable for an elegant entertainment, from two dishes to five or ten, &c. and directions for ranging them in their proper order. Also a copious and useful bill of fare ... The whole is so contrived as to contain as much as any book of double the price; and the excellency of the receipts renders it the most useful book of the kind. (Printed for C. and R. Ware ..., 1764), by Sarah Harrison, Richard Ware, Mary Morris, and American Institute of Wine & Food (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court and kitchin of Elizabeth, commonly called Joan Cromwel (Printed by Tho. Milbourn, for Randal Taylor in St. Martins le Grand, 1664), by Thomas Grenville, Randal Taylor, Thomas Milbourn, and Elizabeth Cromwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• England's newest way in all sorts of cookery, pastry, and all pickles that are fit to be used : adorn'd with copper plates, setting forth the manner of placing dishes upon tables, and the newest fashions of mince-pies (Printed for and sold by Chr. Coningsby, at the Ink-bottle against Clifford's Inn Back-Gate, in Fetter-lane, Fleet Street, 1708), by Henry Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of cookery, made plain and easy : which far exceeds any thing of the kind ever yet published ... (Printed for the author, and sold at Mrs. Ashburn's, a china shop, the corner of Fleet-Ditch, 1747), by Hannah Glasse and Mrs Ashburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The London art of cookery and housekeeper's complete assistant : on a new plan, made plain and easy to the understanding of every housekeeper, cook, and servant in the kingdom : containing proper directions for the choice of all kinds of provisions, instructions for trussing poultry, roasting and boiling all sorts of butchers meat, poultry, game, and fish, baking, broiling and frying sauces for every occasion, soups, broths, stews, and hashes, ragoos and fricassees, made dishes, both plain and elegant, all sorts of pies and puddings, pancakes and fritters, proper instructions for dressing fruits and vegetables, pickling, potting, and preserving, the preparation of hams, tongues, and bacon, to keep garden stuffs and fruits in perfection, the whole art of confectionary, the preparation of sugars, tarts, puffs, and pasties , cakes, custards, jams, and jellies, drying, candying, and preserving fruits, &c. elegant ornaments for entertainments, instructions for carving, necessary articles for sea-faring persons, made wines, cordial waters, and malt liquors : to which is added, an appendix, containing considerations on culinary poisons, directions for making broths, &c. for the sick, a list of things in season in the different months of the year, marketing tables, &c. &c. : embellished with a head of the author, and a bill of fare for every month in the year, elegantly engraved on thirteen copper-plates (London : Printed for J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, No. 12, B. Law, No. 13, Ave-Maria Lane, and G. and T. Wilkie, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1789., 1789), by John Farley, B. Law, G. & T. Wilkie (Firm), and Scatcherd and Whitaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern cook's and complete housewife's companion : being the largest and best collection of new receipts for dressing all sorts of meat, fowl, and fish, and for making ragoo's, fricassees, and pastry of all sorts, in a method never before published ... adorned with copper plates, exhibiting the order of placing different dishes, &c. on the table in the most polite way : to which are prefixed, directions for a house steward (Printed for R. Manby and H.S. Cox ..., 1751), by Vincent La Chapelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The closet of the eminently learned Sir Kenelme Digby Kt. opened : whereby is discovered several ways for making of metheglin, syder, cherry-wine, &c., together with excellent directions for cookery, as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c. (London : Printed by H.C. for H. Brome, at the West-end of St. Pauls, 1677., 1677), by Kenelm Digby, Henry Brome, and E. Cotes (page images at HathiTrust)
• E. Kidder's receipts of pastry and cookery : for the use of his scholars : who teaches at his school in Queen Street near St. Thomas Apostles, on Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays, in the afternoon also on Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays, in the afternoon at his school next to Furnivals Inn in Holborn : ladies may be taught at their own houses. (s.n. ;, 1720), by E. Kidder and Robert Sheppard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Universal family cook (London : Printed and sold by W. and J. Stratford, no. 112, Holborn-Hill., [1800?], 1800), by W. A. Henderson, William Stratford, Collinger, and England) W. & J. Stratford (Booksellers : London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Queens delight ([London] : Printed for Nath. Brooke, at the Angel in Cornhill, 1662., 1662), by Nathaniel Brooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• New London cookery and complete domestic guide. (London : George Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane, Paternoster-Row, [1810], 1810), by Esther Copley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court cookery (London : Printed for T. Wotton, at the Three Daggers in Fleet-Street, MDCCXXIII [1723], 1723), by R. Smith and Thomas Wotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compleat city and country cook (London : Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch; and C. Davis, in Pater-noster-Row and S. Austen in St Paul's Church-yard, 1736., 1736), by Charles Carter, Stephen Austen, Charles Davis, and A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Royal-cookery (Printed for J. Nutt, and A. Roper, and to be sold by E. Nutt at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, 1716), by Patrick Lamb, Abel Roper, E. Nutt, and John Nutt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art & mystery of cookery (London : Printed for Obadiah Blagrave, at the Bear and Star in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1685., 1685), by Robert May and Obadiah Blagrave (page images at HathiTrust)
• Whole body of cookery dissected, taught and fully manifested, methodically, artificially, and according to the best tradition of the English, French, Italian, Dutch, &c. (Printed for E. Calvert, at the sign of the Black Spread Eagle, at the West end of St. Pauls, 1673), by William Rabisha (page images at HathiTrust)
• Complete English cook (Printed for the Authoress, and sold by J. Cooke ..., 1772), by Catharine Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• English housewifery : exemplified in above four hundred and fifty receipts, giving directions in most parts of cookery; and how to prepare various sorts of soups, made-dishes, pasties, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, &c. : with cuts for the orderly placing the dishes and courses; also bills of fare for every month in the year; and an alphabetical index to the whole : a book necessary for mistresses of families, higher and lower women servants, and confined to things useful, substantial, and splendid, and calculated for the preservation of health, and upon the measures of frugality, being the result of thirty years practice and experience (Leeds : Printed by Thomas Wright, for W. Fawdington; and sold by Scatcherd and Whitaker, Ave-Mary Lane; William Bent, Pater-noster-row, London; and by most booksellers in Great Britain, 1785., 1785), by Elizabeth Moxon, William Bent, W. Fawdington, Thomas Wright, and Scatcherd and Whitaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet: Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery. Very pleasant and beneficial to all ingenious persons of the female sex, by Hannah Woolley (Gutenberg ebook)

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