Record Source: University of Pennsylvania / Subject: Cooking / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1750">1750</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1799">1799</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 1 volume (+ 1 booklet, 13 leaves)
Abstract:: A parchment covered volume comprising recipes for sauces, ketchups, and vinegars by Thomas Peachey spanning thirty years from 1794-1824.

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Extent:: 1 volume (+ 11 leaves)
Abstract:: A volume containing culinary and medicinal recipes written and collected by Joanna Hodgkinson of Sheffield, Yorkshire, spanning the years from 1768 to 1829.

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Extent:: 1 volume (+ 1 leaf)
Abstract:: This volume is a combination of commonplace book and recipe book written by Mary Bridges Beck of Bristol, England spanning the years from 1737 to 1799.

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Extent:: .2 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract:: This collection dates from 1747 to 1807 and consists of culinary, household, and medicinal recipes written and compiled in England, likely by one family or household. There is a vellum bound recipe book, a stitched recipe booklet, and numerous loose sheets with recipes, many of which are to or by the Nicholls family.

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Extent:: 0.25 linear feet
Abstract:: The Amersham Soup Society was established in 1798 in England to run a soup kitchen for Amersham's poor. This collection consists of correspondence, accounts, rules, printed matter, subscriber lists and kitchen plans as well as "Count Rumford's Experimental Essays" and memoranda and plans for the relief of the poor.

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Extent:: 2 volumes (366, 368 pages)
Abstract:: These two volumes contain 357 recipes and were written and compiled by an unknown creator starting in 1799, likely in France. It is unclear when the creator completed these volumes. One volume contains medical remedies and the other contains pantry, culinary, rural economy, and household recipes.

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Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: Thomas Ormsby was a member of a prominent Irish family living in Ballinamore House in County Mayo, Ireland. This volume contains culinary, medicinal, and household recipes compiled by Thomas Ormsby and probably other members of the family from at least 1780 to 1813. Culinary recipes include both sweet and savory dishes, and use a diverse set of ingredients, many of which were not native to Ireland.

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Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: This volume contains 166 culinary, household, and medicinal recipes and was created and compiled between 1799 and 1816 in England. The primary contributor was possibly Sarah Ann Grace Sperling (1770-1850), but there are numerous hands present.

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