File consists of 29 undated culinary recipes, many of which are on fragments of paper. Some appear to have been folded and sent as letters. One such example is addressed to Mrs. Warde (recipe for drop biscuits). One features the remains of a red wax seal. Some dishes featured in the recipes include: a variety of puddings, giblet soup, preserved mulberries, a variety of vinegars (gooseberry, rose, crab, primrose), butterscotch, cowslip wine, gingerbread, and potted trout.

File contains approximately 38 undated culinary recipes, also including some medicinal content and household preparations. Some feature attributions to the recipe's creator, for example: "Mrs. Coates recipe to make mince pye." One recipe is folded as a letter addressed to Mrs. Warde with a personal note from Mr. and Mrs. Payne. Dishes featured in the recipes include: puddings, a variety of gingerbreads, calf's head, raisin wine, orange brandy, orange syrup, ginger beer, porter jelly, buns and rolls, pickled walnuts, omelet, cocoa nibs, chutneys, and gooseberry vinegar. Medicinal and household preparations include barley water, a recipe "for washing silks and satins," and some unidentified preparations using ingredients such as rose water, myrrh, and spirits.

File consists of approximately 30 chiefly undated recipes. They are mostly culinary, with two notable medicinal preparations and one household recipe. Some recipes are written on paper fragments. One is dated 1854 (a recipe for chamomile tea). Some feature names, including one with the name of "Mrs. Smithson, [Ridworth?] House." Some dishes featured in the recipes include: puddings, blancmange, lobster, Spanish kidneys, "Doctor Cheney's breakfast cakes," apricot recipes, beef tea, tomato sauce, cowslip wine (two), "gateau de poireau," fish sauces, spiced ham, and green gooseberry wine. Two medicinal preparations include carrigeen cough drops and a recipe for a "tea-spoonful of powdered charcoal," for digestive complaints. Also included is a recipe to clean varnish.

File consists of approximately 25 chiefly undated recipes on varying sizes of loose sheets. Content is mostly culinary, but some recipes are for medical and household preparations, including two doctors' prescriptions, one recipe for sore throat relief, and one recipe to treat "delicate people, subject to complaints of the Chest." One recipe is for a brass cleaner. Dishes featured in the culinary recipes include: crab jelly, scotch bread, raspberry jelly, preparations of celery and jerusalem artichokes, "king of Delhi" pudding, arrowroot blancmange, and Italian cheese. One item features a recipe for taking stains out of furniture on the verso of a printed form letter with handwritten additions from the Askern Bath Charity in Doncaster.

File consists of approximately 40 chiefly undated recipes for household preparations and medical remedies, on varying sizes of paper. Also included are 4 letters: one is addressed to Miss Taylor and includes a recipe on the verso in a different hand (1848); one is a crossed letter; one is addressed to Mrs. Aldam, Frickley Hall, from a food producer regarding pressing walnuts and supplying anchovies (1860); and the last is addressed "Dear Warde" and includes a recipe for blackberry wine. The majority of recipes included in the file feature household preparations such as various colours of dye, washing solutions, soap, and directions for painting in oil. Other documents include a sheet of figures and price list. The medical formulas in the file include: barley water, tinctures, camphor mixture, magnesia and bark medicines, sore throat treatment, and a treatment against infection. The one culinary recipes in the file is for lemon blancmange. One clipping from the "Morning Herald" (1781) provides a remedy for consumption. One longer clipping from a London newspaper features recipes for potatoes and cabbage (1780s?). Two documents appear to be knitting patterns (one is for a knitted petticoat). One later document in the file is a bill and receipt addressed to Mrs. Warde-Aldam from a tobacconists shop.

File contains approximately 35 undated culinary recipes, and 2 medicinal recipes. The file also includes 2 letters addressed to Mrs. Warde. One is from F. M. Coldwell and refers to losing her recipes (letter partially crossed). The second contains a recipe for "gateau de pomme." Another letter with enclosed recipes for nougat, macaroon, and "everlasting cakes" is marked from Mrs. Warde. Some dishes represented in the recipes include: arrowroot blancmange, biscuits, buns, shortcakes, apple wine, porter, lemon cake, marbled beef, and mock oyster sauce. One large bifolium contains multiple recipes addressed to "my sis," including: "good lemmon caudle, at a winter supper," kidney toasts, "to dress a calves chitterling," "to fry calves feet," frigacy calves feet, summer Brawn (calves head), quince cream, "barberry jelly and marmaled," currant jelly, pickle capsicum (with the personal annotation: "Mrs. George Cooke, Mr. Warde's Aunt, a better houswife lived not in her neighbourhood"), lemon jelly, lemon and orange cream, and egg butter. Two loose recipes appear to be medical in nature, including one to treat dropsy.