Western Libraries Digitized Collections

Historic Cookery Collection

A selection of volumes from our special collections and archives pertaining to medicinal and food recipes, dating from the 1600s to the early 1900s. The selection contains handwritten volumes, scrapbooks, as well as published books, many of which were created or compiled in Canada.

A Collection of above three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery

Medicinal recipes of Captain T. Wilson

Emily Chadwick’s Recipe Scrapbook, File 8-13

Emily Chadwick’s Recipe Scrapbook, File 8-14

Handwritten recipe book, late 17th century - early 19th century

Recipe book, 1850

An Epitomie of most experienced, excellent and profitable secrets appertaining to physicke and chirurgery

Accounts and medical recipe books of George Whitehouse