Formulas, recipes, etc.
Images from the collections
![The accomplish'd female instructor: or, a very useful companion for ladies, gentlewomen, and others. In two parts. Part I. Treating of generous breeding and behaviour; choice of company, friendship; the art of speaking well [etc.] ... Part II. Treating of making curious confectionaries, or sweet-meats, jellies, syrups, cordial-waters ... to know good provisions, dye curious colours, whiten ivory ... physical and chyrurgical receipts ... and a great number of other useful and profitable things.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0027944/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![The accomplish'd female instructor: or, a very useful companion for ladies, gentlewomen, and others. In two parts. Part I. Treating of generous breeding and behaviour; choice of company, friendship; the art of speaking well [etc.] ... Part II. Treating of making curious confectionaries, or sweet-meats, jellies, syrups, cordial-waters ... to know good provisions, dye curious colours, whiten ivory ... physical and chyrurgical receipts ... and a great number of other useful and profitable things.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0027945/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Works from the collections
1,327 works
- Books
Recipes and everyday knowledge : medicine, science, and the household in early modern England / Elaine Leong.
Elaine LeongDate: 2018- Archives and manuscripts
Le Cat, Claude Nicolas (1700-1768)
Le Cat, Claude Nicolas, 1700-1768Date: 1763Reference: MS.3207- Archives and manuscripts
Cline, Henry (1750-1827)
Henry ClineDate: c.1760-1821Reference: MSS.1672-1683 & 6008-6009- Books
- Online
The Queens closet opened : being incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, and candying &c. which were presented to the Queen / by the most experienc'd persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem when she pleased to descend to private recreations.
Date: 1696- Archives and manuscripts
MS.1422
Date: c.1755