Ration Book
This is a Ministry Of Food ration book issued to Ruth M Gibbs, 1953-1954.
Recipe Book
A hand-written recipe book, which is contained in a hard backed notebook with a black cover. The book contains recipies and newspaper cuttings.
Recipe Book
Hand-written recipe book, contained in a hard-backed notebook with a black cover. The book contains recipes and newspaper cuttings.
Returning From A Bad Market. Butter Only One and Nine
This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a farmer and his wife returning from market. There is a painted inscription along the bottom which reads 'Returning from a bad market, Butter only one and ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Feed the Hungry woodcut, p.72v.
Charity: feeding the poor in Shakespeare's time.
All communities had their share of the poor and Elizabethans would regularly offer their unwanted ‘left-over’ food to those less fortunate ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Help the thirsty woodcut p.73r detail
Drinks available in Shakespeare's time.
The regular drink of Elizabethans was cider, ale (which was not strong beer), or for the more wealthy, wine was imported from France, or Germany. Water was used ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Tending the sick woodcut, p.74v, detail.
A family death-bed: a scene familiar to Shakespeare.
A generation before William Shakespeare's birth, England was a Roman Catholic country changed by the actions of Henry VIII who declared himself ...
Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Tending the sick woodcut, p.74v, detail.
Women in the home in Shakespeare's time.
The role of women, though legally inferior to men, was in effect recognised of equal importance as they were expected to carry out all the responsibilities ...
Rolling Pin
A teak rolling pin, made from a polished turned wooden baton. The diameter is wider in the middle than at the ends. There is a knob at one end with a hole pierced through it.
Salt Cellar
Salt celler made from a rectangular piece of black wood with the interior carved out, 1700-1799. The exterior is decorated with incised lines and crosses. There is a hole through the base.
Salt Cellar
Elizabethan salt cellar consisting of a shallow bowl on a pedestal foot. It is made of sandy brown clay and bears the remains of an enamelled yellow-green glaze.
Salt Trencher
Salt trencher from China. A shallow oval dish on a pedestal bearing a blue decoration. The oval bowl has a coat of arms and an inscription.
Sandwich Tin
An aluminium sandwich tin. It has collapsible sides that create a deep box with a lid.
Sauce Boat
Sauce Boat c.1762 A bow sauce boat with fluted sides. The sauce boat is powder blue with white panels painted with Chinese landscape scenes. The interior is white with a scene in the bottom of the bowl....
Sauce Boat
Sauce Boat c.1765 A Worcester porcelain sauce boat with a thumbrest on the handle. It has Chinese style painted floral decoration in enamel colours.
Sauce Boat
An early blue and white sauce boat decorated with pagodas, trees and birds.
Sauce Boat. Bow
Sauce-boat made in Bow, London, c.1747-1776 A sauce-boat with a blue underglaze and flowers painted on the inside. There are two Chinese lanscape scenes on the outside.
Saucer
A bone china saucer or small dish. It bears a circular, blue Chinese floral decoration divided into four panels.