Recipes. Instructions (document genre)
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
Account book of Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton, containing memoranda, list of debts, and accounts, 1727-1728., 1726-1728.
The accounts relate chiefly to the estate of Aberlady (see MSS.17450-17472).
There is also a legal note, 1726 (folio 2 inverted), and two recipes (folio 5 verso inverted).
Accounts, chiefly relating to the household of Mary of Lorraine, but with a few items of the late 16th century., 1532-1600, and undated.
Anonymous culinary, household and medical recipe book begin in 1692.
‘Antidotarium` by Nicolaus., 14th century.
The text is preceded by a list of medicines mentioned (folio 1). On folios 43 verso-48 are recipes in several 14th- and 15th-century hands.
Initials are in red or blue with tracery in the other colour.
‘Ceo sunt quentyses bones et esproves`. Miscellaneous recipes in Anglo-Norman.
Sections iv-vii are in the same hand. Folios 33 verso-34 verso are blank. There are a few pen drawings of faces in the margins.
Fragments of a 13th-century contents list from a collection of sermons have been used as binding strips; other fragments from the same source are in Adv.MS.18.2.4 and 18.4.5.
Collection of romances and religious material, mostly in verse, written in the North Midlands by Richard Heeg with some items by James Hawghton and additions in other hands.
"Cookery Notes", 1902-1904, of Elsie Henderson, with later annotations, c 1955, and memoirs, undated, of Catherine Elsie Henderson.
'De modo medendi' by Gerard, incipit 'De modo medendi vel ordine cum corpus sit purgandum'., 13th century.
Initials are in red and green.
At the end in three hands are added recipes and notes, one in French (`La confexion de Noygages`) (14th century, folio 23 verso).
Diary and memoranda book of John Nisbet.
John Nisbet`s diary and memoranda book lists significant events in his life including a ‘Tour to the Highlands in 1818’, eyewitness accounts of the Radical Riots in Paisley, 1820, and George IV’s visit to Edinburgh, 1822. There are also lengthy passages on ‘The State of Trade in Paisley, 1825-1826’ and on national and international affairs including the French Revolution of 1830. Also included are genealogical notes and household and medical recipes.
End of an unidentified work on the degrees of medicine, explicit 'et passionario et protinus aliis libris ut modicam pararet ualitatem'., 13th century.
There is no ornament.
At the end are added recipes in French (15th century, folio 156 verso).
Five 13th-century medical manuscripts, possibly written in England, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
The manuscripts had been bound into one volume by the 15th century. The contents are: (i) translation, by Constantinus Africanus, of 'De gradibus simplicum' by Isaac and the end of an unidentified work, with recipes added in later hands; (ii) Gerard, 'De modo medendi', with recipes and notes added by later hands; (iii) a work on digestion; (iv) seven works on medical subjects; (v) the end of an unidentified work on the degrees of medicine, with added recipes in French.
Four or five medical manuscripts of the 14th century, with additions of the 14th and 15th centuries.
The volume has been heavily trimmed, leading to the partial loss of some headings and marginal notes.
Fragments of at least 7 and perhaps 8 manuscripts on medicine and astrology, some, if not all, English.
A and E may be in the same hand and from the same manuscript.
Fragments of ‘Secretum secretorum’ by pseudo-Aristotle., 15th century.
Illustrated recipe book compiled by Katherine Jane Ellice of Invergarry.
Jeanny Billingham`s Recipe Book
Notebook containing recipes for paint and soap based on John Stalker an George Parker, `A Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing`, 1668. George Parker was employed by Lady Grisel Baillie, the aunt of the author. In a modern binding.
Journal of an extended visit to Scotland and Ireland by an anonymous female Swiss teacher.
Lecture notes, 1932, on poultry keeping compiled at the East of Scotland School of Agriculture.
With pharmacist`s notes and recipes, circa 1840, from Germany, containing notes on the Daguerreotype process.
Letters, recipes, press cuttings and notes sent to Michael Turnbull in response to requests for material for his book on the history of food in Edinburgh.
The book for which this material was collected was later published in 1997 as 'Edinburgh A la Carte'. Establishments featured include the George Hotel, Bruntsfield Hotel, Vintners Room, Leith, Henderson's Restaurant, Golf Tavern, Prestonfield House, Carlton Highland Hotel, the George Hotel, the Caledonian Hotel, Helios Fountain, and the Oyster Bar at the Café Royal.