The Recipes

Receipt-Book, 17^th-18^th century

An anonymous collection of recipes that dates back from 1690 to approximately 1710. This collection features 249 pages of recipes that range from preserves, stilling, cosmetics, “surgery and phisick”, liquors, syrups, and cookery.

18th Century British Veterinary Book

A collection of recipes for livestock treatments, with ten pages of Horse healing recipes transcribed. From a book owned by Robert Phillips in the Early 18th Century

Lady Catherine Fitzgerald: An Eighteenth-Century British Cookbook

A Collection of ye best Receipts, 1700-1739

A large collection of cooking and medicinal recipes from the early eighteenth century.

Cooke Family, Shelfmark: M.S.1788

An 18th century cookery, medicinal, and receipts book which was contributed to and shared by multiple members of the Cooke Family. The multiple authors of this recepit book demonsgtare a wide variety of strategies, themes, and unique recepits from various time periods.

Seventeenth-Century English Medical Notebook

Begun in 1650, this medical notebook contains remedies for common coughs, fevers, and stomach aches, ranging to a cure for the plague and recipes for mead and different types of wine.

Anonymous Eighteenth-Century Cookery Book

An anonymous collection of culinary recipes that dates back to 1775.

Eighteenth-Century Recipe Book

An anonymous collection of recipes written by various authors from around 1785 to 1890.

Eighteenth-Century English Cookery Book

This book, which was written sometime between 1775 and 1800 according to the Wellcome library’s website, contains different recipes for dishes likely intended for a large family.