Formulas, recipes, etc. - Early works to 1800
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Secretes. Or soueraigne receipts well experimented and tryed / by diuerse authours contaynynge notable remedies agaynste diuers sicknesses and diseases, wounds, and other accidents, with the maner to make distillations, parfumes, dyings, colours, and meltings: with many other artificiall sciences, very profitable for euery man.
Alessio, Piemontese, approximately 1471-Date: 1562- Books
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The compleat cook : expertly prescribing the most ready wayes, whether Italian, Spanish, or French, for dressing of flesh, and fish, ordering of sauces, or making of pastry.
Date: 1662- Books
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The thyrde and last parte of the Secretes of the reuerende Maister Alexis of Piemont, by him collected out of diuers excellent authors, with a necessary table in the ende, containying all the matters treated of in this present worke. Englished by Wylliam Warde.
Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565Date: [1566]- Books
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The gentlewoman's delight in cookery : containing the newest art of dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl, or fish, either roasted, boiled, baked, stewed, fryed, broyled, hasht or frigaced. Together with the true way of raising paste, and making pyes, pasties, tarts, cakes, custards, &c. Also how to make all sorts of broths, caudles, syrups, jellies; and the exact way of making divers sorts of pickles, &c. Likewise directions for garnishing, serving up, and setting out a table; ... To which is added, the art of preserving, conserving, and candying all sorts of fruits, flowers, buds, roots, herbs, &c. With a most excellent receipt for making beautifying water to clear the face, neck, hands, & whiten the skin. Very beneficial for all young gentlewomen and servant-maids. Licensed according to order.
Date: [1690?]- Books
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A verye excellent and profitable booke conteyning sixe hundred foure score and odde experienced medicines : appertayning vn to physicke and surgerie, long time practysed of the expert and reuerende Mayster Alexis, which he termeth the fourth and finall booke of his secretes ... Translated out of Italian into Englishe, by Richard Androse.
Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565Date: 1578