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Acton, Eliza Modern Cookery for Private Families (1861)
Acton, Eliza The English Bread Cook (1857)
Apicius, Marcus Gavius De Re Coquinaria (1st century AD)
Beeton, Mrs Isabella in her Book of Household Management (1861)
Bradley, Richard The Country Housewife and Lady’s Director (1728)
David, Elizabeth Bread and Yeast Cookery (1977)
Dawson, Thomas The Good Huswifes Jewell (1585)
Dawson, Thomas The Booke of Carving and Sewing (1597)
Dawson, Thomas Booke of Cookerie (1620)
Francatelli, Charles The Modern Cook (1859)
Glasse, Hannah The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy
Grey, Elizabeth A True Gentlewoman’s Delight (1653)
Grigson, Jane English Food (1974)
Hammond, Elizabeth Modern domestic cookery and useful receipt book (1819)
Hartley, Dorothy Food in England (1954)
Longe, Sarah Receipt Book (1610)
Markham, Gervaise The English Hus-Wife (1615)
May, Robert The Accomplisht Cook (1660)
Mollard, John The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined (1802)
Moxon, Elizabeth English Housewifry (1764)
Nutt, Frederic The Imperial and Royal Cook (1809)
Radcliffe, M A Modern System of Domestic Cookery, or, The Housekeeper’s Guide (1822)
Raffald, Elizabeth The Experienced English Housekeeper (1769)
Rundell, Mrs A New System of Domestic Cookery (1805)
Smith, Eliza The Compleat Housewife, or, Accomplished Gentelwoman’s Companion (1742)
St Claire, Harriett in Dainty Dishes (1866)
White, Florence Good Things in England (1932)
W.M (full name unknown) The Compleat Cook (1658)
Woolley, Hannah The Cook’s Guide (1664)
Woolley, Hannah The Ladies Directory (1661)
Woolley, Hannah The Queen-like Closet (1670)

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A noble boke of festes ryalle and cookery (1500)
Forme of Cury (1390)
Utilis Coquinario (1360s)
Viandier de Taillevent  (1300)

History

Anderson, Ian The History and Natural History of Spices: The 5,000-Year Search for Flavour (The History Press, 2023)
Ashton, John The History of Bread from Pre-historic to Modern Times (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016)
Bartlett, Robert England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings 1074-1225 (The New Oxford History of England) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000)
Bickham, Troy Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth Century Britain (London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2020)
Colquhoun, Kate Taste: The Story of Britain Through its Cooking (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007)
Defoe, Daniel A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain (Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1988)
Dickson Wright, Clarissa A History of English Food (Arrow, 2012)
Emmison, F G Tudor Food and Pastimes (Benn, 1964)
Hagen, Ann A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food: Processing and Consumption (Middx: Anglo-Saxon Books, 1994)
Hammond, P W Food and Feast in Medieval England (Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1998)
Hutton, Ronald Pagan Britain (Yale University Press, 2022)
Hutton, Ronald Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain (Oxford University Press, 2001)
Laslett, Peter The World We Have Lost (London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1971)
Mason, Laura and Catherine Brown The Taste of Britain (HarperPress, 2006)
Mattingly, David An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd, 2006)
Pray Bober, Phyllis Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001)
Roud, Steve The English Year (Penguin Books Ltd, 2006)
Sim, Alison Pleasures and Pastimes in Tudor England (The History Press, 2009)
Smith, Andrew Sugar: A Global History (Reaktion Books, 2015)
Wilbraham, Anne and J C Drummond The Englishman’s Food: Five Centuries of English Diet (Pimlico, 2017)