From the Cookery Library

Old-time recipes

28,708 recipes from 80 American cookbooks printed between 1796 and 1927, sorted by kind of dish and by book. Every recipe links to its page in the old book, so you can see it as it was printed.

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By kind of dish17

Preserves, pickles and jellies

942 recipes

By cookbook80

Landmark American cookbooks11 books

Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats

1828 · Eliza Leslie

92 recipes

Directions for Cookery, in Its Various Branches

1837 · Eliza Leslie

435 recipes

The National Cookery Book

1876 · Women's Centennial Executive Committee

427 recipes

Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book

1884 · Mary J. Lincoln

395 recipes

Mrs. Rorer's Philadelphia Cook Book

1886 · Sarah Tyson Rorer

1,008 recipes

The White House Cook Book

1887 · Fanny Lemira Gillette and Hugo Ziemann

1,324 recipes

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

1896 · Fannie Merritt Farmer

1,435 recipes

New England, Boston and Maine seafood14 books

The New England Cook Book, or Young Housekeeper's Guide

1836 · Hezekiah Howe & Co.

147 recipes

The New England Economical Housekeeper and Family Receipt Book

1845 · Esther Allen Howland

28 recipes

Mrs. Putnam's Receipt Book; and Young Housekeeper's Assistant

1849 · Elizabeth H. Putnam

308 recipes

Miss Parloa's New Cook Book and Marketing Guide

1880 · Maria Parloa

646 recipes

Boston School Kitchen Text-Book

1887 · Mary J. Lincoln

178 recipes

Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties

1899 · Janet McKenzie Hill

277 recipes

The New England Cook Book

1905 · Alice M. Turner (compiler)

375 recipes

Lowney's Cook Book, Illustrated in Colors

1907 · Maria Willett Howard

827 recipes

Catering for Special Occasions, with Menus and Recipes

1911 · Fannie Merritt Farmer

218 recipes

Recipes for Sea Food

c. 1910s · Freeman & Cobb Company

218 recipes

Jewish cookbooks3 books

The Jewish Manual

1846 · Judith Cohen Montefiore (attributed)

270 recipes

Jewish Cookery Book, on Principles of Economy

1871 · Esther Levy

65 recipes

Aunt Babette's Cook Book

1889 · "Aunt Babette" (Bertha F. Kramer)

772 recipes

African American authors4 books

What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking

1881 · Abby Fisher

134 recipes

Good Things to Eat, as Suggested by Rufus

1911 · Rufus Estes

57 recipes

Regional American: South, Creole, Midwest, West and Hawaii13 books

Mrs. Owen's Illinois Cook Book

1871 · Mrs. T. J. V. Owen

565 recipes

Mrs. Porter's New Southern Cookery Book

1871 · Mrs. M. E. Porter

613 recipes

Presbyterian Cook Book

1873 · First Presbyterian Church, Dayton, Ohio

483 recipes

The Kansas Home Cook-Book

1874 · Board of Managers, Kansas Home for the Friendless

439 recipes

Buckeye Cookery and Practical Housekeeping

1877 · Estelle Woods Wilcox

836 recipes

Gulf City Cook Book

1878 · Ladies of the St. Francis Street Methodist Episcopal Church

771 recipes

The Dixie Cook-Book

1883 · Estelle Woods Wilcox (compiler)

878 recipes

The Creole Cookery Book

1885 · Christian Woman's Exchange

790 recipes

California Mexican-Spanish Cook Book

1914 · Bertha Haffner-Ginger

70 recipes

Immigrant and international7 books

Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management

1861 · Isabella Beeton

524 recipes

German National Cookery for American Kitchens

1904 · Henriette Davidis

12 recipes

Simple Italian Cookery

1912 · Antonia Isola (Mabel Earl McGinnis)

86 recipes

Chinese-Japanese Cook Book

1914 · Sara Bosse and Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton)

105 recipes

Community and charity cookbooks3 books

The Woman Suffrage Cook Book

1886 · Hattie A. Burr (editor)

336 recipes

The Corn Cook Book

1918 · Elizabeth O. Hiller (compiler)

96 recipes

Corporate and advertising booklets (pre-1931)9 books

Jell-O Recipe Book

1905 · Genesee Pure Food Company

15 recipes

The Good Housekeeping Woman's Home Cook Book

1909 · Isabel Gordon Curtis

455 recipes

Cottolene, the New Shortening

c. 1890 · N. K. Fairbank Company

11 recipes

Dainty Desserts for Dainty People

c. 1910s · Charles B. Knox Co.

132 recipes

Jell-O

c. 1910s · Genesee Pure Food Company

3 recipes

Reliable Recipes

c. 1910s-1920s · Calumet Baking Powder Co.

26 recipes

Government and wartime7 books

Corn Meal for Breakfast, Dinner, Supper

1917 · Bessie R. Murphy

60 recipes

War Economy in Food

1917 · United States Food Administration

42 recipes

Foods That Will Win the War and How to Cook Them

1918 · C. Houston Goudiss and Alberta M. Goudiss

239 recipes

Mary Elizabeth's War Time Recipes

1918 · Mary Elizabeth Evans

120 recipes

Two Hundred and Seventy-Five War-Time Recipes

1918 · Carolyn Putnam Webber

108 recipes

Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes

1927 · US Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Home Economics

262 recipes

Thanksgiving, Halloween and holiday5 books

Dennison's Bogie Book

1909-1920s · Dennison Manufacturing Co.

3 recipes

The Party Book (Dennison)

c. 1910s-1920s · Dennison Manufacturing Co.

2 recipes

Beverages and cocktails3 books

How to Mix Drinks, or The Bon-Vivant's Companion

1862 · Jerry Thomas

72 recipes

Daly's Bartenders' Encyclopedia

1903 · Tim Daly

50 recipes

Camp, outdoor and fire cookery1 books

The recipes were read from the page scans by computer, so now and then a word comes out wrong. Each one links to the page it came from. A few of the library's books are scans with no readable text yet; their recipes will be added later.

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