Recipes
There are a wide variety of food recipes held within WYAS collections; some examples are shown below. A publication of a selection of these recipes, entitled 'Recipes Across The Years', is available for purchase on the WYAS E-shop.
| Description | Dates | Reference | Repository |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Margaret Abercomy's recipe book | 1736 | Bradford | DB39/C29/1 |
| Miscellaneous Recipes For Soups and Puddings
(Soup for the soup kitchens, potato yeast, savoury rice, tapioca pudding and paradise pudding) |
c1786 - 19th Century | Wakefield | C281/11/2 |
| Recipe for Christmas pudding | [19th to 20th century] | Bradford | WYB119/4 |
| Recipes for wine from planetree juice and 'Buiscuit Cake' | Early 19th century | Leeds | WYL826/367 |
| Recipe collections, made by a lady associated with Rodley | 1896-1929 | Leeds | WYL1260 |
| Exercise book belonging to Lilian Whitwam, containing recipes for West Riding pudding and other desserts | 1917 | Kirklees | WYK1302/3/1 |
| Keighley Food Control Committee war time recipes
(For making bread with less flour and 1918 Rationing Order) |
28 Apr 1917 | Bradford | WYB344/40 |
| Kathleen Binns' collection of Second World War recipe books | 1938-1943 | Bradford | 37D82 |
Medical recipes included basic cures for common ailments such as colds to the more extreme illnesses such as Cholera morbus. The latter recipe dating from 1829 -1835 may have been employed during the epidemics that struck Yorkshire (see Cholera). Joseph Wright's Medical Recipe Book contains a number of recipes collected between 1787 and 1842. Some recipes are rather vague, for example for 'female weakness' [B/JB/7/1].
Recipes for making paint and ink also survive [for example WYL230/2860 (WYAS Leeds) and WYK1075/3/1/2 (WYAS Kirklees)]. One 18th century recipe is for making ink from beer [DD/WBM/115] but recipes for ink appear in a number of sources. See an old recipe for ink on the National Archives website.
| Description | Dates | Reference | Repository |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recipes for medicines for Sir Rowland to take daily (from the Nostell Priory collection) | 14-18 Nov 1721 | Wakefield | WYL1352/A4/[1620]/26 |
| Joseph Wright Horsforth's medical recipe book | 1787-1842 | Bradford | 23D97 |
| Recipe book and recipes of medical cures for farming animals | c1789-1815 | Bradford | JOW/14/10 |
| Notebook containing recipes for different coloured paints | 19th century | Bradford | BAR/5/12 |
| Recipes for colic and cholera morbus cures | 1829 - 1835 | Wakefield | C281/16/9 |
| Medicinal recipe book of Benjamin Redfearn of Batley, druggist and grocer
(Indexed, includes recipes for items such as aerated lemonade, bowel complaints, bunion solvent, embrocation for horses, furniture paste, gargle for sore throat, horse blisters, whooping cough mixture, hair restorer and tooth powder) |
1860s | Kirklees | KC678 |
| Handwritten dye recipes from Holliday Dyes and Chemicals collection | 1921-1970 | Kirklees | WYK1075/3/1/2 |
| Medicinal recipe book (107 recipes) from records of Joe Beaumont, textile manufacturer
(Includes recipes for medicines such as anti billious, laxative, 'female weakness', pregnancy pains, backache, diuretic, stomach tonic) |
nd | Kirklees | B/JB/7/1 |
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