Vintage Cookbooks

[nitrofd]

This website has about 150 cookbooks online from pre-1800 up 1920.
Some are pdf files and others are embedded views.
This is a huge important resource.

http://vintagecookbooks.healthyeatingandlifestyle.org/index.html

 

[donna]

Thanks for posting. Do enjoy Vintage Cookbooks.

 

[Jimklag]

This website has about 150 cookbooks online from pre-1800 up 1920.
Some are pdf files and others are embedded views.
This is a huge important resource.

http://vintagecookbooks.healthyeatingandlifestyle.org/index.html

My wife is already rummaging around on this website. She loves old cookbooks.

 

[nitrofd]

My wife is already rummaging around on this website. She loves old cookbooks.

Everything is in public domain so anything she finds can be posted.

 

[Eleanor Rose]

This website has about 150 cookbooks online from pre-1800 up 1920.
Some are pdf files and others are embedded views.
This is a huge important resource.

http://vintagecookbooks.healthyeatingandlifestyle.org/index.html

I'm going to have a lot of fun with this link!!!

 

[Deleted User CS]

This sounds like a great resource. Thanks for posting this information. David.

 

[nitrofd]

Mrs.Beeton's cookbook is on this link,a classic.

 

[nitrofd]

Here is a recipe from an old cookbooks whose site I will list soon,this one is from:
"BETTER MEALS FOR LESS MONEY"(1917)
Author is Mary Green
Jellied Prunes and Cranberries
1Cup Prunes
Boiling water
1 cup Cranberries chopped
1 cup Sugar
1/2 box gelatin
1/2 cup cold water.
Wash prunes,and soak overnight in water to cover,cook until soft in same water,drain measure juice,and add enough boiling water to make 3 cups;put Cranberries in a colander and rinse off the seeds with running water;drain and add to water,add sugar,and cook 10mins.;add gelatin soaked in cold water;stone the prunes;cut in quarters,add to cranberries,then into a mold,and chill.

 

[JohnW.]

This website has about 150 cookbooks online from pre-1800 up 1920.
Some are pdf files and others are embedded views.
This is a huge important resource.

http://vintagecookbooks.healthyeatingandlifestyle.org/index.html

@nitrofd ....you be the host with the most!!!

 

[TracyM61]

This website has about 150 cookbooks online from pre-1800 up 1920.
Some are pdf files and others are embedded views.
This is a huge important resource.

http://vintagecookbooks.healthyeatingandlifestyle.org/index.html

Thanks for posting this. I've copied/pasted to my Civil War Notes folder in my computer. Have been busier than usual lately and not had a chance to peruse the website, afraid I'll find all sorts of things to buy But will definitely look it over thoroughly.

Anyway, I had mentioned on @Eleanor Rose post "The Most Popular Cookbook 1837," about Miss Leslie's cookbook that I had purchased a copy of Fannie Farmer's "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book," on eBay and wanted to share a few pics with our fellow vintage cookbook enthusiasts.


Apparently, from my research thus far, is this is a 4th Edition, printed in 1927, revised by Cora D. Perkins (whom I believe was Fannie Farmer's sister); according to http://historiccookingschool.com/boston-cooking-school-editions/

Cora D. Perkin's "Preface to the New Edition," is dated Boston, July, 1923 and signed C. D. P.

• 4th edition, 1923. 808 pp. (Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.; probably revised by Fannie's sister/executor of the estate, Cora Farmer Perkins; incorporates Fannie Farmer's 1912 book, A New Book of Cookery, and about 40 additional ages at the back of book.)
• 4th edition, reprint, 1927 (Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.; probably revised by Cora Farmer Perkins)

This is the inside cover-page:



I was so excited to receive this in the mail while I was away dog-sitting for a friend this week. I had to share! Hopefully, will try some recipes over the holidays and share them as well.

Of note, the First Edition of this cookbook was printed in 1896...

 

[mofederal]

My main experience with vintage cookbooks is strictly WWII era. They are very interesting, as they have many ideas for substitution of different ingredients. I will be looking at the site, because I like to see what recipes were popular in different eras. They can be enlightening, and later on tasty. Thanks for posting this @nitrofd.

 

[TracyM61]

What I've noticed so far with just skimming the contents is the detailed scientific element to cooking back then. Like a complete encyclopedia of cooking.

Over Thanksgiving I'll delve more into it and look into Miss Leslie's cookbook. Putting it on my Christmas list of gifts to myself.

 

[LoriAnn]

What a great find, @nitrofd !

I tease my mom about her "vintage" cookbooks (from the 40s and 50s). What's cute about hers is that they were put together for a bride by the women in her family, her circle of friends, and her neighborhood.

 

[TracyM61]

This is the inside inscription by John Ruskin, which I thought was quite interesting and revealing about how deeply those at the Boston Cooking-School felt about cooking. Quite a profound verse...

 

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I somewhere have a German booklet (no a flyer?) from the hungerwinter 1916/17 where it is listed what undesirable weeds one may eat

 

[LoriAnn]

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This is the inside inscription by John Ruskin, which I thought was quite interesting and revealing about how deeply those at the Boston Cooking-School felt about cooking. Quite a profound verse...

And here I thought I was just boiling some pasta.

 

[nitrofd]

And here I thought I was just boiling some pasta.

You know how to boil water.

 

[LoriAnn]

You know how to boil water.

You're right. I am kind of amazing, aren't I?

 

[nitrofd]

You're right. I am kind of amazing, aren't I?

But you don't look like a blond.

 

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blond died red? artificial intelligence