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Resources for food, cooking and recipes

Pre Roman:

Book cover showing text about prehistoric food above a rectangular print of a reddish-brown cave painting of a large animal.

Prehistoric Food 1

A document listing food recipes in two columns with a black and white botanical line drawing of bittercress in the corner.

Prehistoric Food 2

A book cover showing a golden funerary mask beside a vertical frame containing five separate panels of food photography.

Ancient Egypt

Roman:

A black-and-white line drawing shows a woman cooking, framed by decorative columns and a fruit garland above the title text.

Apicius 1

The book cover for Food & Cooking in Roman Britain by Jane Renfrew displays a close-up detail of a patterned Roman mosaic.

Roman Britain 1

A printed document page titled Recipe Index listing food items alphabetically in two columns with corresponding page numbers.

Roman Britain 2

Medieval:

Book cover featuring a medieval illustration of people in a tower and at a table, with title text above and below.

Medieval 1

A printed document titled RECIPE INDEX listing various dishes and their corresponding page numbers in two columns.

Medieval 2

Book cover titled The Medieval Cookbook showing a historical illustration of people in colorful period clothing at a feast.

Medieval 3

A printed document page featuring a subject index of old recipes, arranged in three columns with corresponding page numbers.

Medieval 4

Book cover illustration featuring line drawings of medieval figures, barrels, and red text reading To the King's Taste.

Richard III

A printed contents page listing medieval-style recipes, grouped by category with corresponding page numbers on the right.

Richard III

A document page showing a printed table of contents for medieval recipes, categorized by course with page numbers listed.

Richard III

Tudors:

Painting of a woman in a ruff collar and bodice holding a bowl of beans, surrounded by a metal pail and baskets of produce.

16th century

A typed recipe index document on white paper lists dishes like apple mousse, mutton stew, and trout pasties with page numbers.

16th century

Cover of a book titled Sallets Humbles & Shrewsbery Cakes with a red line drawing of three historical figures eating at a table.

Elizabethan

A printed document showing a book contents page listing archaic recipe titles such as To bake Venison and To fry Bakon.

Elizabethan

A printed document showing a book table of contents listing antique recipes for fish, fowl, eggs, pies, vegetables, and sweets.

Elizabethan

A green book cover titled To the Queen’s Taste with a black line drawing of four figures in sixteenth-century costume.

Elizabethan Feasts

A printed table of contents lists various historic recipes for appetizers and entrees with their corresponding page numbers.

Feasts

A printed page from a book listing various medieval recipes and their corresponding page numbers in two columns.

Feasts

A printed book page showing a list of medieval recipes including Warden Pie and A Dyschefull of Snowe with page numbers.

Feasts

17th century:

A printed document with red text and illustrations featuring recipes, historical information, and a drawing of a kissing bough.

17th century

A printed document with red text and illustrations featuring several seventeenth-century recipes, notes, and historical facts.

17th century

A cookery book cover features the title text over a large fireplace with a table piled with game, vegetables, eggs and pots.

Mrs Cromwell

18th century:

A yellow book cover with the title English 18th Century Cookery in black serif text and black botanical line art illustrations.

18th century

A document displaying a printed list of contents for a book, featuring chapter titles on the left and page numbers on the right.

18th century

Book cover titled Food and Cooking in 18th Century Britain featuring a colored illustration of a family in a garden setting.

18th century

Printed document showing an alphabetical recipe index with two columns of dishes and corresponding page numbers.

18th century

19th century:

A painting depicts several Victorian people in rural attire gathered outdoors with food and drinks, alongside a book cover.

19th century

A printed page showing a Recipe Index in two columns, with illustration acknowledgements at the bottom and the number 46.

19th century

Vintage document cover featuring printed text and an oval black-and-white portrait of a man in a military-style uniform.

How to Bottle

20th century:

A collage of vintage book covers, a National Registration identity card, and a Dig for Victory poster on a textured background.

World War 2

A book contents page listing sections on soups, main meals, vegetable cookery, and sweets, with a line drawing of a person.

World War 2

Typewritten document from September 1940 listing recipes for potato scones, Seville buns, honey cake, and Valencia tartlets.

1940

Cambridgeshire

A book cover titled Cambridgeshire Country Recipes showing a loaf of bread, sliced bread, strawberries, grapes, eggs, and grains.

Cambridgeshire

A page from a printed cookbook shows a table of contents categorized into Soups and Beginnings, Fish, and Poultry and Game.

Cambridgeshire

A printed table of contents from a cookbook showing categories of dishes and recipes with corresponding page numbers.

Cambridgeshire

An open book page showing a list of drink recipes, an illustration of a pitcher, and text about Cambridgeshire's history.

Cambridgeshire

East Anglia

A line drawing of a bag filled with yarn, books, and jars, beside a cat and sewing supplies, with overlaid printed text.

East Anglia

A painting of a river with a red-sailed boat, a windmill, and a thatched cottage, titled Favourite Norfolk Recipes.

Norfolk

A printed book index page in two columns listing various recipes and their corresponding page numbers.

Norfolk

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