Sources

All the early Scottish cookery books are available in the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh except for Mrs McLintock (the first published Scottish cookery book, 1736). There are only two copies of the original, both in Glasgow University Library, one in the John Ferguson Collection (which is bound separately), and one in the William Ewing Collection (which is bound with other works under the title History of Adolphus). The University of Strathclyde’s Rare Books Department has a particularly fine collection of antiquarian cookery books, many collected by Professor John Fuller while he was Director of the University’s Scottish Hotel School in the 1960s. It has two copies of Mrs Suzanna Maclver’s Cookery and Pastry. The Rare Books Department of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, has the original manuscript of Lady Castle-hill’s Recipes (a collection of about 400 dishes, 1712) in the Bogles of Daldowie Family Papers (possibly given to her daughter Anne who married George Bogle, a Glasgow tobacco merchant, in 1731). The manuscript recipes of Martha Brown were lent to me by Charles McGurk, librarian at Ayr and Cunningham District Library. Other books and manuscript recipes are from my own collection.