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Recipes. Instructions (document genre).

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Sets of directions with a list of ingredients for making or preparing something, especially food. (AAT) This heading was used in the published catalogues for household and other recipes, including works on cookery. Medicinal recipes were indexed under the term 'Medicine'. (NLS).

Found in 134 Collections and/or Records:

'A collection of the best reciepts in cookery, pastery and confectionary taken from the best authors by Margt Hume Campbell, with a dedication to the Right Honourable Lady Diana Scott’.

 File
Identifier: MS.15914
Scope and Contents

The collection was probably intended for Lady Diana, the author's younger sister, on her approaching marriage to Walter Scott of Harden in 1754. There are a few later additions and an index (folio iii) but no section on confectionery. Some of the sources of the recipes are named.

Dates: 1753.

Book of household and medical recipes marked 'Given to Lady Mary Murray, Sept. 5th 1787', written in several hands, and apparently compiled in the household of her father, the third Duke of Atholl.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9478
Scope and Contents

The first fifty folios contain kitchen recipes. These are followed (folio 51) by a medical section, which includes some veterinary remedies, and (folio 124 verso) by a few recipes for home-made wines.

Dates: 1787.

Book of household recipes compiled by a Mrs William Spence.

 Item
Identifier: MS.9479
Scope and Contents

The larger part consists of kitchen recipes, but a few medical remedies are contained in the inverted pages. Many of the informants appear to be Scottish.

Dates: 1825.

Book of recipes., 19th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.1887
Scope and Contents

Cookery recipes are at the beginning; medical start at the end. Several leaves found loose in the book have been pasted in.

Dates: 19th century.

Book of recipes, started by Anna, Lady Elcho (died 1649), and continued by her daughter Jean, Countess of Sutherland.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3031
Scope and Contents The book of recipes is continued by Anna, Lady Elcho’s daughter Jean, Countess of Sutherland (see her note on folio ii verso), Jean, Viscountess Maitland (see her references to the Countess of Lauderdale as her mother-in-law, folios 73 verso, 77), and others. See the notes and pedigree inserted by William McMath, 1879, who states that the volume came from Dunbar Castle (folios i verso, xii-xiii). The dates 1701 and 1735 occur at folios 70, 75 verso.The recipes are all medical,...
Dates: 1st half of 17th century-1735, 1879, undated.

Book of recipes which, according to a note by the Reverend John Stirton at the beginning, belonged to the Wyche family., [1797, or after.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.1881
Scope and Contents

Culinary recipes are at the beginning; medical and miscellaneous recipes start at the end.

The paper is watermarked 1797.

Dates: [1797, or after.]

Cashbook, 1811-1812, of J B [James Bogle?], Glasgow., 1811-1812, 1817, 1825.

 Item
Identifier: MS.2806
Scope and Contents

There is one entry of 1817 and another of 1825. The entries are partly business and partly personal. There are some memoranda relating mainly to the erection of pumps, with details of costing, and to other mechanical devices, with some medical recipes. Internal evidence suggests that J B may be interpreted as James Bogle.

Dates: 1811-1812, 1817, 1825.

Common-place book of medical, chemical and alchemical recipes and experiments.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.1.10
Scope and Contents At the end of the manuscript are numerous prescriptions by a physician in high practice in Scotland in the beginning of the 17th century. One commences ‘Dedi Alexandro comiti Eglintonis uxoris meae confebr[...]ino… 30 Octob.1625’.On a fly leaf is written ‘I wagered with the young laird of Darfie that his wyff was with a sone (deprehenso pulsu brachii dextri maiore) a paire of stage ledder gloves the last of Januar 1634’.The description of the manuscript in the folio...
Dates: Early 17th century.

Commonplace book containing poems, household and medical recipes, riddles and notes, written in several hands.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14275
Scope and Contents

Folios 1-20 contain a collection of verses, most of which are dated 1789.

Dates: 1783-1828.

Commonplace book in French and English., 17th century-18th century.

 Item
Identifier: MS.165
Scope and Contents

The contents include ‘Miscellanea’ (folios 3, 96); ‘Metaphysique’ (folio 14); characteristics of European countries (folio 22); medical and cookery recipes (folios 49, 93). On folio 1 is written in a 17th century hand: ‘Je apartien a monsieur Hopton gentlehomme anglois demeurant a Kentwell Sufk cadet’.

Dates: 17th century-18th century.

Commonplace book of George Anderson, Glasgow.

 Item
Identifier: MS.14276
Scope and Contents

As well as poetry, recipes and miscellaneous notes, the book includes instructions for road-making (page 3) and designs for a pump and a building for making lamp-black (pages 37, 66).

Dates: 1818-1827.

Commonplace book of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes., 1786-1788, undated.

 Item
Identifier: MS.25427
Scope and Contents

The commonplace book includes verse, historical notes, accounts, and a recipe of 1786. (Folio 7 verso.) Of particular note is the Latin poem concerning Johnson and Boswell, undated. (Folio 6.) The volume served as an engagement diary for September-October 1788, and September 1789, undated. (Folios 1-2, 22-23.)

Dates: 1786-1788, undated.

Cookery and medical recipes., 1659-1734.

 File
Identifier: MS.10978 [Maca.529]
Scope and Contents

The manuscript is chiefly late 17th century, but with additions to 1734.

The name Henry Blaxton with date 1659 occurs on folio i.

Folios 2-5 include some accounts, 1670-1712, one of which (folio 3) mentions 'my son Jerimiah Elseding'.

Dates: 1659-1734.

Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels, and of his own and allied families: Hays, Thomsons, Tods, Lothians.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.3116-3123
Scope and Contents

A table of the relationships of the various families has been placed in MS.3116, folio i.

Dates: 1714-1905, undated.

Culinary and household recipe book of Anne Susanna Hope, wife of Charles Hope, Commissioner at Chatham.

 Item
Identifier: MS.24776
Scope and Contents

Included are culinary recipes of Anne Susanna Hope's mother-in-law, Lady Anne Johnston Hope, wife of Admiral Sir William Johnston Hope.

Dates: 1786, undated.

Culinary and medical recipes.

 File
Identifier: MS.15912
Scope and Contents

The recipes, which are both culinary and medical, are in several hands, and there are lists of the contents at the beginning and end of the volume. The initials M I M are stamped on the covers and written inside the front cover.

Dates: 17th century-18th century.

Early company records., 1752-1935.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12235/1-30
Scope and Contents From the Record Group: The business records, 1768-2002, of George Waterston and Sons, Ltd, Edinburgh, specialist printers, manufacturing and retail stationers, and sealing wax manufacturers. The papers also include material relating more particularly to the Waterston family.In addition to business records, the collection includes papers relating to the Waterston family or to the history of the business collected by various family directors, series of family and business photographs, sample specimens of...
Dates: 1752-1935.

Educational, literary, cultural and miscellaneous papers of the Chalmers family of Auldbar., 1637, 1675-1694, 1714-1867.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.15508-15518
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Auldbar was bought in 1753 by William Chalmers, a Gibraltar merchant whose family had owned land in Aberdeenshire, at Federate and Hazlehead. His father and brother were physicians in Aberdeen, and the papers as arranged below begin with medical records of these men. An important section concerns the trade and administration of Gibraltar in the second quarter of the 18th century, and there is also much mercantile correspondence of the 18th and early 19th centuries. As with the rest of this...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1637, 1675-1694, 1714-1867.