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 87 Collections and/or Records:
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 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.
Commonplace book containing poems, excerpts from sermons, household recipes, etc., written in several hands., Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.8243
Scope and Contents
In 1827 the volume belonged to Margaret Davidson, Glasgow.
Dates:
Late 18th century-early 19th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Family papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Correspondence, legal, financial and estate papers of the Stuarts of Castlemilk and the Stuarts of Torrance.
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Miscellaneous papers of the families of Stuart of Castlemilk and Stuart of Torrance.
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 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.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Dalrymples of Hailes and Newhailes.
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Correspondence and papers of and concerning Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes.
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Miscellaneous papers of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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Notebooks and commonplace books of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes.
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.
Despatch book of Howietoun Fishery., 1885.
Item
Identifier: MS.15994
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.
General financial, legal and miscellaneous papers of the Cunninghame Graham, family., 1826-1936.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11335/162-176
Dates:
1826-1936.
Household and medical recipes, lists of flowers and fruit-trees and other gardening notes, a list of fish in Loch Fyne, and conversion-tables for Scottish and English weights and measures., Mid 18th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.17889
Dates:
Mid 18th century.
Household papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 1614-1905, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.17850-17857
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
1614-1905, undated.
Household recipes., 1824-1837.
File
Identifier: MS.3123
Scope and Contents
The dates 1824, 1826, and 1836-1837 occur at various places.
Dates:
1824-1837.
Household recipes of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17853
Scope and Contents
The recipes are arranged under the general heads of food (folio 1), preserves (folio 105), drink (folio 137), household (folio 193), vermin and animals (folio 227), and technology (folio 238).
Dates:
18th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Household papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Legal papers, recipes and letters of the Scawen and Meade familes., 1685-1779, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.12933
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
William Nassau Elliot of Wells was Commissary and Commissary-General to the allied army in Germany, 1761-173, and his son, William Elliot of Wells was Member of Parliament for Portarlington, 1801-1802, and for Peterborough, 1802-1818, and Chief Secretary for Ireland in the ‘Talents' Ministry, 1806-1807. The Elliots of Wells were only very distantly related to the Elliots of Minto, the common ancestor being Robin Elliot of Redheugh (florished 1582). However, William Elliot of Wells was a...
Dates:
1685-1779, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers chiefly of William Nassau Elliot of Wells (?1736-1775), Barrister (Inner Temple), and of his son, William Elliot of Wells (1766-1818), Member of Parliament.
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Scawen and Meade family papers.
Letter from J Farrell, printer and dyer, Manchester, to Andrew Mutie, printer and dyer, Milton, concerning printing cloth, 1845; and recipes for colour, 1844-1845. , 1844-1845.
File
Identifier: MS.17997
Manuscript of 'The brut, or the chronicles of England', containing the text up to the death of Edward III in 1377., 15th century.
Item
Identifier: MS.6128
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the text up to the death of Edward III in 1377, substantially as printed by Friedrich W D Brie.The missing first folio of the original text has been supplied in a later hand. A gap in the text from the middle of cap. lxxiii to the middle of cap. lxxvi is the result of losses between folios 29 and 30. Cap. ci is followed by a section entitled, 'How kyng Cadwaladre that was Cadwaleynes sone regnede aftir his fader and was laste kyng of the...
Dates:
15th century.
Medical notes and recipes of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun., 1614-1905, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.17851
Scope and Contents
The undated papers are arranged thus: Latin (folio 130), French (folio 157), English (folio 178), and printed (folio 345). Among a series of opinions on the condition of Margaret Carnegie, wife of Henry Fletcher of Saltoun, are several by John Locke.
Dates:
1614-1905, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Household papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Medical recipes., Early 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.10965
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Medical recipes of R[obert] Collins., Late 18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.10964
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers concern all the normal features of the domestic life and estate management of a Scottish family. They cover mainly the period from 1717, when James Graham, Judge Admiral, first acquired the lands, until the 1840s, when William Graham, his great-grandson, ceased to run the estate himself, but they also contain both earlier and later material. Most of the material concerns William Graham (succeeded 1746, died 1790), and his son Thomas Graham Stirling (succeeded 1806, died 1836). The...
Dates:
Late 18th century.
Medical recipes of the family of Erskine of Alva., 17th century-18th century.
File
Identifier: MS.5112
Scope and Contents
The contents include a treatise, 1656, on the making of plasters (folio 1), a copy of Dr Hermann Boerhaave's prescriptions for powders for a fever (folio 68), and a photostat of a prescription, undated, by Jon Macolo, physician to James VI (folio 70).
Dates:
17th century-18th century.
Medical recipes written by Sir Harry Bruce., Early 17th century-mid 17th century.
File
Identifier: MS.17852
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Fletchers were merchants in Dundee, who came to prominence towards the end of the sixteenth century in the person of Robert, burgess and bailie of Dundee, who purchased various lands in Forfar which were consolidated into the estate of Innerpeffer; he died in 1622. His eldest son Sir Andrew was admitted an ordinary judge in 1623 (his brothers were James, merchant burgess of Dundee; Robert, of Bencho; and Sir George, of Restennet, advocate, through whose holding of the priory lands of...
Dates:
Early 17th century-mid 17th century.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun (previously of Innerpeffer), with some of Abernethy, Lords Saltoun.
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Miscellaneous papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
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Household papers of the family of Fletcher of Saltoun.
Memorandum-book of Elizabeth Walker, daughter of James Walker, Minister of Buittle; and a journal of Mr Bontein, Writer in Cardross., 1717-1762, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.2205
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.(i) Memorandum-book of Elizabeth Walker, daughter of James Walker, Minister of Buittle, containing notes of money matters and deaths in the family, recipes, etc., 1717-1762, undated. The earlier notes are in the hand of another. Fragmentary; many leaves had been wholly or partly cut away before receipt, and several blank leaves have been removed since. (Folio 1.)(ii) Journal of Mr Bontein, writer in Cardross, 1728, relating entirely to...
Dates:
1717-1762, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Collection of manuscripts of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Miscellaneous smaller manuscripts, single letters, small collections, etc., now made up into volumes, the property of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Memorandum of recipes, undated, of Cecilia Combe., Early 19th century-mid 19th century.
File
Identifier: MS.7468
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
MSS.7443-7445 are written in German, having been delivered on George Combe's tour in Germany in 1842.
The phrenological reports (MSS.7452-7455) comprise the phrenological measurements of many persons, both well-known and obscure, with reports and descriptions of their mental capabilities and weaknesses.
The papers of Cecilia Combe contain a selection of literary efforts, diaries of tours, and the usual memoranda and inventories kept by nineteenth-century housewives.
Dates:
Early 19th century-mid 19th century.