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recipe

Recipe books are common in print and manuscript is our period. They offer how-to instructions on preparing a wide range of medicines. There is considerable overlap with cookery, with books offering recipes for individual dishes, for medicines, and for preserving; many of the preparation processes were the same.


There are 279 books tagged with this term.
 
Last Name First Name Title Date
[author not specified] The compleat servant-maid 1683
[author not specified] A queens delight or, The art of preserving, conserving, and candying 1683
Markham Gervase The English house-wife, containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in… 1683
Boyle Robert New experiments and observations touching cold, or, An experimental history of cold, begun. To which… 1683
[author not specified] The Queens closet opened 1683
Grey Elizabeth A choice manual, or, Rare and select secrets in physick and chyrurgery: collected, and practised… 1682
Digby Kenelm A choice collection of rare secrets and experiments in philosophy, as also rare and unheard… 1682
Hartman George The true preserver and restorer of health 1682
Hartman George The true preserver and restorer of health: being a choice collection of select and experienced… 1682
Lilly William Doctor Lilly’s last legacy: being the poor mans physitian & the countrymans doctor. Or, A new… 1681
K. T. The Kitchin-physician: or, A guide for good-housewives in maintaining their families in health… 1680
Ponteus John Dr Pontaeus’s Key to the garden of health, etc… 1680
Thrasher William The marrow of chymical physick; or, The practice of making chymical medicines. Divided in three… 1679
M. W. The Queens closet opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving and candying, &c. which were… 1679
Harvey Gideon The family-physician, and the house-apothecary. Containing I. Medicines against all such diseases people… 1678
Digby Kenelm The closet of the eminently learned Sir Kenelme Digby Kt. opened: whereby is discovered several… 1677
[author not specified] The accomplish’d lady’s delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery 1677
[author not specified] The accomplish’d lady’s delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery 1677
[author not specified] A brief account of some choice & famous medicines 1676
Aymes John A rich store-house, or, treasury for the diseased 1676
Ponteus John The true every man & woman their own doctor: or, a salve for every sore. Being… 1676
[author not specified] Every man and woman their own doctor 1676
Harvey Gideon The family physician, and the house apothecary; containing I. Medicines against all such diseases people… 1676
Ponteus John Every man and vvoman their own doctor: or A salve for every sore· Being a… 1676
Ponteus John Man and woman their own doctor: or A salve for every sore. Being a book… 1676
[author not specified] The potable balsome of life· Being a collection of the choicest preservatives that are extant… 1675
[author not specified] The accomplish’d lady’s delight in preserving, physick, beautifying, and cookery 1675
Digby Kenelm Choice and experimented receipts in physick and chirurgery, as also cordial and distilled waters and… 1675
[author not specified] The Queens closet opened 1674
A. B. The sick-mans rare jewel... 1674