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1400's Online Cookbooks
- Liber Cure Cocorum
- Both poetry and cookery book! Parallel transcription of a modern translation of the book and a 1862 edition of the ancient manuscript.
1400's Cookbooks from Amazon
Liber cure cocorum: Copied and edited from the Slone MS.1986 (Transaction of the Philological Society)
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
Online Cookbooks 1650-1699
- The Accomplisht Cook
- ''...or the Art and Mystery of Cookery. Wherein the whole ART is revealed in a more easie and perfect Method, than hath been publisht in any language.''
- The Queen-Like Closet
- ''...or Rich Cabinet Stored With All Manner Of Rare Receipts For Preserving, Candying And Cookery. Very Pleasant And Beneficial To All Ingenious Persons Of The Female Sex''. Not sure I'd picture Snail Water in a queen-like closet, but that's just me.... I'll take the Bisket-Cakes and Rasberry Tart, though!
Cookbooks 1650-1699 from Amazon
The Accomplisht Cook, or The Art of Mystery of Cookery
Amazon Price: $29.95 (as of 07/25/2008)
The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet
Amazon Price: $36.99 (as of 07/25/2008)
Online Cookbooks 1750-1799
- American Cookery
- Reputed to be the first American cookbook ever published. Amelia Simmons, orphan, started a huge trend!
- English Housewifery
- Elizabeth Moxon's early cookbook ''Exemplified in above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts Giving Directions for most Parts of Cookery''. Love the section at the end with menus for every season! View actual book (a bit hard to read) here.
- The Forme of Cury
- While pubished in 1780, this is a copy, with notes, of a document said to have been compiled by the master-cooks of Richard II around the year 1390. Very intersting old cookbook written in Middle English!
Cookbooks 1750-1799 from Amazon
English housewifery: Exemplified in above four hundred and fifty receipts, giving directions in most parts of cookery
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
The First American Cookbook: A Facsimile of "American Cookery," 1796
Amazon Price: $5.95 (as of 07/25/2008)
The Forme Of Cury
Amazon Price: $35.99 (as of 07/25/2008)
Online Cookbooks 1800-1849
- The Cook's Oracle
- Dr. Kitchiner's classic cookbook from 1829. Contains approximately 500 recipes that the good doctor believed would protect against ''the pernicious effects of improper Diet''.
- Directions for Cookery, in Its Various Branches
- Miss Leslie's general remarks on food and lots of recipes, from back in the day when they still measured things in jills!
- Domestic Cookery
- ''Useful receipts and hints to young housekeepers''. Interesting older cookbook with thoughtful remarks on housekeeping, many of which are still valid today.
- The Jewish Manual
- ''Practical Information in Jewish and Modern Cookery with a Collection of Valuable Recipes & Hints Relating to the Toilette''. Judith Cohen Montefiore covers cooking, cosmetics and even includes a nice little section on mental health at the end!
1800-1849 Cookbooks from Amazon
The Cook's Oracle
Amazon Price: $8.95 (as of 07/25/2008)
The Jewish Manual
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
Miss Leslie's Directions for Cookery: An Unabridged Reprint of the 1851 Classic
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
A Quaker Woman's Cookbook: The Domestic Cookery of Elizabeth Ellicott Lea
Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 07/25/2008)
1850-1860 Online Cookbooks
- The Book of Household Management
- AS WITH THE COMMANDER OF AN ARMY, or the leader of any enterprise, so is it with the mistress of a house. And Mrs. Beeton was the Commander-in-Chief with tons of hints on running an efficient household and over 1800 recipes to feed the hungry rank-and-file.
1850-1860 Cookbooks from Amazon
Beeton's Book of Household Management, 1861 (Southover Historic Cookery & Housekeeping Series)
Amazon Price: $49.95 (as of 07/25/2008)
1880's Online Cookbooks
- Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
- Before there was the Joy of Cooking, there was Miss Parloa and her guide to shopping, outfitting a kitchen and cooking in it.
- The White House Cook Book
- ''A Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home'' from 1887 by the Steward of the White House.
1880's Cookbooks from Amazon
Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
Amazon Price: $75.99 (as of 07/25/2008)
White House Cookbook, Revised and Updated Centennial Edition
Amazon Price: $14.21 (as of 07/25/2008)
1890's Online Cookbooks
- The Art of Living in Australia
- Much of this is a nice snapshot of living in Australia at the turn of the century, but Philip Muskett also includes ''three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken''. A very interesting book!
- Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery
- Vegetarianism is not at all a new thing; it's just taken a while to catch on. This ''manual of cheap and wholesome diet'' has a lot of ideas for cooking soups, vegetables, fruits, etc. but is a bit lacking in bread and dessert recipes.
- Favorite Dishes from 1893
- Compiled by Carrie V. Shuman. Souvenir cookbook from the World's Columbian Exhibition.
- Made-Over Dishes from 1899
- By Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer. Economical cookbook with hints to make your leftovers go farther. With interesting recipes that include Gobbits, Klopps, Mock Terrapin and Rice Muffins.
- Recipes Tried and True from 1894
- From the Ladies' Aid Society of the First Presbyterian Church, Marion, Ohio. Simple, hearty recipes include things like Green Corn Patties, Cottage Pudding and about 8 different recipes for Doughnuts!
1890's Cookbooks from Amazon
The Art Of Living In Australia
Amazon Price: $25.80 (as of 07/25/2008)
Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery
Amazon Price: $90.99 (as of 07/25/2008)
Favorite Dishes: A Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book (The Food Series)
Amazon Price: $40.00 (as of 07/25/2008)
Made over dishes;: How to transform the materials left over in the preparation of the daily meals into palatable & wholesome dishes
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
Recipes Tried and True
Amazon Price: $12.99 (as of 07/25/2008)
Online Cookbooks 1900-1905
- Cookbooks from the Pan-American Exposition from 1900-01
- Includes links to Helen Louise Johnson's The Enterprising Housekeeper and the Ladies Aid Society of the Riverside Methodist Episcopal Church's Pan-American Cook Book. The links to the cookbooks on their main page don't seem to work at the moment, but try the ones I've got here; they seem to be working for now.
- A Little Cookbook for A Little Girl from 1905
- By Caroline French Benton. Little Margaret's birthday present is learning to cook, and she learns how to make an awful lot of tasty things!
- Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine from 1902
- By William Carew Hazlitt. A brief history of English food and cooking. Includes selected recipes from the 1736 Compleat Housewife.
1900-1905 Cookbooks from Amazon
The enterprising housekeeper: 200 tested recipes
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
A little cook book for a little girl
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Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
Amazon Price: $71.99 (as of 07/25/2008)
Online Cookbooks 1906-1910
- Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes from 1909
- By Janet McKenzie Hill and Maria Parloa. Advertising cookbook from Walter Baker & Co. is two cookbooks in one. Miss Parloa's yummy chocolate and Mrs. Hill's tasty candies will have you drooling!
- Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures from 1907
- Bohemian cooking from the West Coast. Major Joseph Tilden was known for cooking tasty things like Palestine Soup, Toasted Angels and Genoise Pastry.
- Reform Cookery Book from 1909
- By J. O. Mill. Mrs. Mill's "Up-to-date health cookery for the Twentieth Century". A very early vegetarian cookbook.
- 365 Foreign Dishes from 1908
- ''A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year''. Starting on January 1st with Austrian Goulasch and ending on December 31st with French Braised Sweetbread, you can cook your way around the world all year long!
1906-1910 Cookbooks from Amazon
Chocolate and cocoa recipes,: By Miss Parloa, and home made candy recipes, by Mrs. Janet McKenzie Hill
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
Joe Tilden's Recipes For Epicures
Amazon Price: $13.22 (as of 07/25/2008)
Reform Cookery Book
Amazon Price: $17.12 (as of 07/25/2008)
1911-1913 Online Cookbooks
- Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus from 1911
- By Rufus Estes. ''A Collection of Practical Recipes for Preparing Meats, Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc.'' Written by a former slave, who worked his way up in the Pullman Company and later became chef at United States Steel Corp. From Asparagus Soup to Strawberry Syrup, everything in this book sounds like very good things to eat indeed!
- Ice Creams, Water Ices, Frozen Puddings, Together with Refreshments for All Social Affairs from 1913
- By Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer. Recipes for an amazing number of ''Philadelphia'' ice creams, Neapolitan creams, ices and other frozen delights as well as picnic and party food.
- Many Ways for Cooking Eggs from 1912
- By Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer. Detailed guide to cooking and preserving eggs and making sauces to go with them. Try Eggs au Miroir, Eggs Malikoff or Eggs Zanzibar!
- Simple Italian Cookery from 1912
- By Antonia Isola. Basic recipes include Pumpkin Soup, Polenta Fritters and Risotto alla Nostrale.
1911-1913 Cookbooks from Amazon
Ice Creams, Water Ices, Frozen Puddings Together With Refreshments For All Social Affairs
Amazon Price: $15.56 (as of 07/25/2008)
Many Ways For Cooking Eggs
Amazon Price: $13.73 (as of 07/25/2008)
Rufus Estes' Good Things to Eat: The First Cookbook by an African-American Chef (Dover Cookbooks)
Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 07/25/2008)
Simple Italian Cookery
Amazon Price: $12.11 (as of 07/25/2008)
1914 Online Cookbooks
- Bohemian San Francisco from 1914
- By Clarence E. Edwords. ''Its restaurants and their most famous recipes - The elegant art of dining.'' This book is part historical travelogue, part poetry book and part cookbook. How about Chili Reinas, Peaches a la Princesse and a Mint Juelp for starters?
- Things Mother Used to Make from 1914
- By Lydia Maria Gurney. ''A Collection of Old-Time Recipes, Some Nearly One Hundred Years Old and Never Published Before''. From Bannocks to Fried Tomatoes, these are all things I sure wish *my* mother used to make!
1914 Cookbooks from Amazon
Bohemian San Francisco
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
Things mother used to make: A collection of old time recipes, some nearly one hundred years old and never published before
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
1915 Online Cookbooks
- The Allinson Vegetarian Cookery Book
- Another early vegetarian cookbook. Dr. Allinson was busy preaching about the benefits of a vegetarian diet way back in 1915!
- The Belgian Cook Book
- Recipes from Belgian refugees of 1915. With witty commentary by the compiler, Mrs. Brian Luck: Game is like Love, the best appreciated when it begins to go. and ...the good cook must learn about food what every sensible woman learns about love--how best to utilize the cold remains.
- The Healthy Life Cook Book
- This cookbook by Florence Daniel contains more vegetarian recipes from 1915, many of which are vegan.
- Mary at the Farm
- And Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans". Mary gives up her job and spends the summer learning housekeeping at her Aunt Sarah's in Pennsylvania so she'll be ready to marry her beau, Ralph. So very 1915, but the recipes all sound good!
- The Suffrage Cook Book
- Compiled by L. O. Kleber. Now that we are entering upon an age of sane living it is important that the home makers should be impressed with the fact that good health precedes all that is worth while in life, and that it starts in the kitchen; that the dining room is a greater social factor than the drawing room. Cookbook full of recipes for good, healthy food for women to march on!
- Table Service
- By Lucy G. Allen. This is more of a course on service than a cookbook, but the menus and details on serving etiquette are very interesting all the same!
1915 Cookbooks from Amazon
Belgian Cook-Book, The
Amazon Price: $25.99 (as of 07/25/2008)
The healthy life cook book
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
Mary at the farm,: And book of recipes compiled during her visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans",
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
Table service,
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Online Cookbooks 1918-1919
- The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book
- The American classic by Fannie Farmer. This is the 1918 edition, which was the last version completely authored by Fannie herself.
- The International Jewish Cook Book
- This is a big kosher cookbook (1600 recipes!) from 1919.
- Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Vol. 1
- Volume 1 covers Essentials of Cookery, Cereals, Bread and Hot Breads. Each section of the book has examination questions and a test menu to cook at the end.
- Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Vol. 2
- Volume 2 covers Milk, Butter and Cheese, Eggs and Vegetables. Mmmm, Junket!
- Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Vol. 3
- More from the Woman's Institute. Covers Soup, Meat, Poultry and Game (Broiled Squirrel, anyone?) and Fish and Shell Fish.
- Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Vol. 4
- Yummy stuff from the Woman's Institute includes Salads and Sandwiches, Cold and Frozen Desserts, Cakes, Cookies and Puddings and Pastries and Pies. Bring on that Strawberry Pie!
- Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Vol. 5
- Covers Fruit and Fruit Desserts, Canning and Drying, Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling, Confections, Beverages, and the all-important Planning of Meals.
1918-1919 Cookbooks from Amazon
The Fannie Farmer Cookbook: Anniversary
Amazon Price: $19.80 (as of 07/25/2008)
The international Jewish cook book
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
WOMAN'S INSTITUTE LIBRARY OF COOKING. Complete set of 12 volumes.
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
Online Cookbooks 1920-1949
- The Cook's Decameron
- ''A study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes.'' A novella and a cookbook in one. It's best to read the recipes and skip the story. The recipes are far more entertaining!
- A Modern Herbal from 1931
- By Mrs. M. Grieve. The classic herbal contains recipes as well as information on the cosmetic and medicinal uses of over 800 herbs.
- Mrs. Allen on Cooking, Menus, Service from 1924
- By Ida C. Bailey Allen. Very thorough guide to cooking. From making your kitchen a cheery, welcoming spot to whipping up 2500 delicious recipes in it -- Mrs. Allen's got it all covered!
- Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book from 1920
- By Mary A. Wilson. No-nonsense English cooking from the former cuisiniere to Queen Victoria.
- The New Dr. Price Cook Book
- Advertising cookbook from Price Baking Powder with recipes for everything from Boston Brown Bread and Bean Soup to Codfish Balls and Wedding Cake.
- Twentieth Century Cook Book
- ''An Up-to-Date and Skillful Preparation on the Art of Cooking''. Includes Modern Candy Making Simplified, The Process of Drying Fruits and Vegetables and Butchering Time Recipes. PDF file.
1920-1949 Cookbooks from Amazon
The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste
Amazon Price: $16.34 (as of 07/25/2008)
A Modern Herbal (Volume 2, I-Z and Indexes)
Amazon Price: $12.89 (as of 07/25/2008)
Mrs. Allen on cooking, menus, service;: 2500 recipes
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
Mrs. Wilson's new cook book: A complete collection of original recipes and useful household information
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
Online Cookbooks 1950-1999
- La Bonne Soupe Cookbook
- Tasty French bistro cooking at its best. A simply beautiful cookbook with menu suggestions for each dish.
- The Ground Meat Cookbook
- 204 intriguing recipes from the Culinary Arts Institute using ground meat, of course. Very 1950's!
- Lithuanian Traditional Foods
- Collection of tasty, filling recipes with things you'd expect like Beet Soup, Potato Cakes and Kvass, as well as surprises like Carrot Coffee and Honey Mushroom pastries.
- The Purdue Chicken Cookbook
- By Mitzi Perdue, wife of Frank Perdue. Everything you ever wanted to know and more about cooking chickens!
Cookbooks 1950-1999 from Amazon
LA Bonne Soupe Cookbook
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
The Ground Meat Cookbook
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
Lithuanian Traditional Foods
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
The Perdue Chicken Cookbook
Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)
Online Cookbooks 2000-
- All About Apples
- A tasting menu from Scott Carsberg of Lampreia. Available for free download from tastingmenu.com -- requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Wikimedia Cookbook
- Technically, it's not a real paper-and-binding cookbook, but it's such a fantastic thing, I've got to include the Wikibooks Cookbook. With recipes from people all over the world, it's got to become the most complete cookery book ever. Check it out, and add some of your favorite recipes, too!
Cookbooks 2000- from Amazon
Cook 1.0: A Fresh Approach to the Vegetarian Kitchen
Companion book to the 101 Cookbooks website!
Amazon Price: $18.15 (as of 07/25/2008)
Online Cookbook Collections
- Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
- This site from Michigan State University has a large selection of vintage cookbooks to browse through. They can be viewed as actual images, transcripts or in .pdf format -- just amazing!
- The Culinary Collection at University of Guelph
- Only 2 of their nearly 5,000 cookbooks are available to read online, but there's the promise of more coming soon. Right now you can browse the Skilful Housewife's Guide from 1848 and The Economical Cookbook from 1915.
- The Nineteenth Century in Print
- Search for ''Cookery'' on this page, and you'll find 5 cookbooks from the 1800's (as of now), including Mrs. Goodfellow's Cookery As It Should Be and The National Cook Book.
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More Vintage Cookbooks from Amazon
A rotating list of some oldies and goodies
Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea
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The ideal bartender,
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Mary Frances Cook Book: Adventures Among the Kitchen People (Mary Frances)
Amazon Price: $14.65 (as of 07/25/2008)
Miss Beecher's Housekeeper And Healthkeeper
Amazon Price: $79.00 (as of 07/25/2008)
More Modern Cookbooks from Amazon
A rotating list of some new and tasty seasonal cookbooks!
The Family Kitchen: Easy and Delicious Recipes for Parents and Kids to Make and Enjoy Together
Amazon Price: $16.50 (as of 07/25/2008)
Gimme Five!: Kid-Friendly Recipes and Tips for Helping Your Child Enjoy Eating Fruits and Veg etables
Amazon Price: $12.71 (as of 07/25/2008)
Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006
Amazon Price: $23.10 (as of 07/25/2008)
Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children
Amazon Price: $15.61 (as of 07/25/2008)
Tofu 1-2-3
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 07/25/2008)
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