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 47 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.
Accounts, day books, and recipe books of Milton printworks near Dumbarton.
Series
Identifier: MSS.17961-17997
Dates:
1790-1861.
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, 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.
‘Collection of recipes’, being a book of household recipes.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.5
Dates:
Late 17th century.
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 of Fife provenance, containing household and medical recipes, verse, and proverbs.
Item
Identifier: MS.24779
Dates:
1840-1854.
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.
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 household recipe book, titled, 'Kinfauns Castle Family Receipts', probably of a member of the family of Baron Gray.
Item
Identifier: MS.24778
Dates:
Early 19th century.
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.
Culinary recipe book of the Honourable Margaret Stewart, wife of Andrew Stewart, Minister of Erskine.
Item
Identifier: MS.24777
Dates:
1799-1839, undated.
'Famous Tippermallochs System of Physick’, being a manuscript, written in 1710, of the collection of medical recipes compiled by John Moncrieff of Tippermalloch.
Item
Identifier: MS.3772
Scope and Contents
The general arrangement of this manuscript corresponds fairly closely with that found in the printed editions, but the manuscript contains several recipes which do not appear in them, and vice versa; there are also differences in the details of recipes. The manuscript contains some additional material at the end.The contents are as follows. Tippermalloch's Recipes (pages 1-181); The following note by the writer of the manuscript: 'The End Of the Famous...
Dates:
1710.
Formal documents and miscellaneous papers of the family of John Taylor, rector of Musselburgh Grammar School.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14271-14272
Dates:
1800-1936, undated.
Instructions for making fireworks, probably intended as part of a scientific work.
File
Identifier: MS.9240
Scope and Contents
The text refers to figures which are not included. The manuscript also contains household and pharmaceutical recipes (folio 52), and a list of books and equipment of an army officer (folios 1 inverted).
Dates:
19th century.
Journal, 1729, of George Skene, containing ‘An Account of a Journey to London, with the particular rout by Thomas Burnett of Kirkhill, George Skene of that ilk, and David Skene his brother german'.
Item
Identifier: MS.3806
Scope and Contents
In addition to George Skene's journal there are notes of expenditure on the journey and of the mileage of part of the route (folio 1 verso); part of an anti-Hanoverian parody of the ‘Te Deum’, ?1742 (folio 34); and part of a diary, probably of Joseph Mackie, 1837 (folio 35).At the end of the volume, inverted, are detailed accounts of expenditure on the journey of 1729 (folio 1 inverted) and recipes, medical and other (folio 3 inverted), including directions for the treatment of...
Dates:
1729-19th century.
'Large Collection of choice recipes for Cookrie, pastries, milks, sauces, candying, confectionating, and preserving of fruits, flowers, etc', dated Dumfries, 1722.
Item
Identifier: MS.10281
Scope and Contents
There are later additions of medical and household recipes in the same hand on the end-papers of the volume up to 1764. The compiler of the recipes is unidentified.
Dates:
1722-1764.
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth.
Item
Identifier: MS.5898
Scope and Contents
Law book compiled by James Blair of Ballindean, Writer in Perth (folio 28), and subsequently belonging to Robert Blair, Writer in Errol (folio 176 verso).The contents are as follows.(i) Style-book of Scots Law forms based on examples collected in and around Perth (folio 5); preceded by two indices (folios 1 verso, 3).(ii) Latin verses, 1683, entitled 'Carmina auditu digna', possibly written by James Blair. (Folio 92.)(iii) Recipes for dyeing...
Dates:
1682-1683.
Manuscript of a 'materia medica' in Gaelic, with some specifics and a calendar.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.3
Scope and Contents
A materia medica, with some specifics (prescriptions) and a calendar. Text, decoration and certain of the hands all bear comparison with John Rylands Library MS. Ir. 35, a manuscript of Scottish provenance for which see Ingliston MS. A.i.9, number 50, and ‘The Academy’, volume 49, page 405.The manuscript is written by the following hands:1. Text, folios i-33, 36-39. A very fine hand bearing similarities to that of Domhnall Albanach Ó Troighthigh, British...
Dates:
?15th century.
Manuscripts from the Macadam collection of books on baking and confectionery in the Department of Printed Books.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10978-10980
Dates:
1659-20th century.
Medical recipes, begun in London in 1709.
Item
Identifier: MS.3773
Scope and Contents
This manuscript has the bookplate, with the date 1708, of 'The Honble. Archibald Campbell Esqr.' - presumably the then Lord Ilay, later the 3rd Duke of Argyll. The book has the appearance of a personal compilation, though the handwriting is unlike that found in contemporary letters of the Duke.The recipes, which apply to many diseases, appear to have been derived both from professional sources and from those of traditional domestic medicine. In many cases the name of the person...
Dates:
1708-1713, 1725, 1732.