Manuscript culinary recipe books at the National Library

Culinary recipe books in the manuscripts collections at the National Library of Scotland are:

• Recipe book possibly of Jean, Countess of Sutherland, from the Sutherland Estates Papers, 1683 [NLS reference: Dep.313/503]
• 'Scone book of receipts', begun 1692 [Acc.13444]
• Recipe books of Katharine Bruce and Margaret Carnegie in the Fletcher of Saltoun Papers, 1689-1709, undated [MSS.17850-17857]
• Anonymous recipe book in several hands, 1689-1692 [MS.10231]
• Anonymous culinary, household and medical recipe book, 17th century [Adv.MS.23.6.5].
• Culinary and medical recipe book, 17th-18th centuries, of 'MIM' [MS.15912]
• Recipe book of Janet Maule, 1701 [Acc.12242]
• 'Large collection of choice recipes for Cookrie, pastries, milks, sauces, candying, confectionating, and preserving of fruits, flowers, etc', Dumfries, 1722-1764 [MS.10281]
• 'Jean Robinson's Pastry Book, Elgin 1734', containing culinary, household and medical recipes [MS.24775]
• 'A collection of the best recipes in cookery, pastry, and confectionery taken from the best authors by Margaret Hume Campbell, with a dedication to the Right Hon Lady Diana Scott, 1753' [MS.15914]
• Recipe books of the Malcolm of Burnfoot family, 1872-1892 [Acc.10708/1-7]
• Recipe book of Anna Susanna Hope and her family, 1786 [MS.24776]
• Recipe book given to Lady Mary Murray in 1787 of recipes from the Duke of Atholl's household [MS.9478]
• Culinary and medical recipe book, 1797, belonging to the Wyche family [MS.1881]
• Recipe book of Margaret, wife of Andrew Stewart, Minister of Erskine, 1799-1839 [MS.24777]
• Recipe book for 'Physick' and 'Cookery of various Kinds', 18th century, of Martha Bruce, Countess of Elgin, governess to HRH Princess Charlotte of Wales [MS.10282]
• Two anonymous culinary recipe books, 18th century [Acc.12286]
• Anonymous, culinary and medical recipe book of Mrs William Spence, 1825 [MS.9479]
• Anonymous culinary recipe books kept by the Barkly of Mount Eagle Family 1820s-1840s [Acc.9907/18-19]
• Baker's recipe book, around 1830 [MS.10979]
• 'Mrs Anstruther's Receipt Book', 1840-1860 [Acc.13447]
• Recipe book of Sarah Reddie, wife of Major-General George Burd, 1847 [MS.5065]
• Recipe book of Katharine Jane Ellice, kept at Glenquoich Lodge, Inverness-shire, 1847-1856 [Acc.12266]
• Kinfauns Castle family receipt book, 19th century [MS.24778]
• Recipe books of Jean Stuart Reith, 19th and 20th centuries [Acc.3564/120-121]
• Recipe books of Janet Hood, née MacArthur, 1930/1931 undated, student at Edinburgh College of Domestic Science, [Acc.12205]
• Work schedules and recipes of Adele M Stewart, 1943 [Acc.9123].