You might not have needed a fortune teller to predict the country’s performance in some of this summer’s sporting events but, if you’re still looking for a little old-fashioned advice from Destiny, the Local and Family History department at Leeds Central Library can certainly help you out. Mother Shipton’s Wheel of Fortune was printed in…
Category: Social History
Pickle Pidgeon Anyone
Today we delve back into the Central Library Stacks to bring you a recipe taken from English Housewifry Exemplified by Elizabeth Moxon, 1764. The first page of the book tells us that the following are available. In above four hundred and fifty receipts, Giving directions in most parts of cookery; And how to prepare various…
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