Recipes. Instructions (document genre).
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’.
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.
Accounts, day books, and recipe books of Milton printworks near Dumbarton.
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.
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.
Book of household recipes compiled by a Mrs William Spence.
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.
Book of recipes, started by Anna, Lady Elcho (died 1649), and continued by her daughter Jean, Countess of Sutherland.
‘Collection of recipes’, being a book of household recipes.
Common-place book of medical, chemical and alchemical recipes and experiments.
Commonplace book containing poems, household and medical recipes, riddles and notes, written in several hands.
Folios 1-20 contain a collection of verses, most of which are dated 1789.
Commonplace book of Fife provenance, containing household and medical recipes, verse, and proverbs.
Commonplace book of George Anderson, Glasgow.
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).
Correspondence and papers of Dr Robert Douglas, Minister of Galashiels, and of his own and allied families: Hays, Thomsons, Tods, Lothians.
A table of the relationships of the various families has been placed in MS.3116, folio i.
Culinary and household recipe book of Anne Susanna Hope, wife of Charles Hope, Commissioner at Chatham.
Included are culinary recipes of Anne Susanna Hope's mother-in-law, Lady Anne Johnston Hope, wife of Admiral Sir William Johnston Hope.
Culinary and household recipe book, titled, 'Kinfauns Castle Family Receipts', probably of a member of the family of Baron Gray.
Culinary and medical recipes.
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.
Culinary recipe book of the Honourable Margaret Stewart, wife of Andrew Stewart, Minister of Erskine.
'Famous Tippermallochs System of Physick’, being a manuscript, written in 1710, of the collection of medical recipes compiled by John Moncrieff of Tippermalloch.
Formal documents and miscellaneous papers of the family of John Taylor, rector of Musselburgh Grammar School.
Instructions for making fireworks, probably intended as part of a scientific work.
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).
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'.
'Large Collection of choice recipes for Cookrie, pastries, milks, sauces, candying, confectionating, and preserving of fruits, flowers, etc', dated Dumfries, 1722.
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.