Cooking & Food
How to Cook Fish
How to Cook Fish is a practical guide by Myrtle Reed, known for her insightful approach to domestic life. In this audiobook, Reed shares her…
The Complete Confectioner
The original version of Hannah Glasse’s ‘The Complete Confectioner’ was first produced about 1760 but the publication referenced here is fro…
The Calumet Book of Oven Triumphs!
Published by the General Foods Corporation, featuring Calumet Baking baking powder, these recipes cover a variety of baked goods from biscui…
Marion Harland's Cookery for Beginners
With this book, Marion Harland presents the reader and listener with "A Series of Familiar Lessons for Young Housekeepers". Housek…
The New Dr. Price Cookbook
This cookbook was published by the Royal Baking Powder Co. to promote the use of Dr. Price's Phosphate Baking Powder in a broad range of rec…
International Harvester Refrigerator Recipes
Presented by the Home Economist of the International Harvester Company, here are six dozen recipes for frozen and chilled dishes including f…
The Little Tea Book
After all, tea is the drink! Domestically and socially it is the beverage of the world. There may be those who will come forward with their …
The History of the Art of Tablesetting
The art of table setting is one of the lost arts in the modern household. Do we just not bother anymore or did we collectively forget how to…
Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six
Juliet Corson has put together a few books on economic housekeeping, and this is a fine example. Almost 150 years after publication (1878), …
A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House
This book of British recipes and cooking advice was compiled by Jessie Conrad, wife of celebrated author Joseph Conrad (Lord Jim, Heart of D…
The Banana
Bananas are the most popular fruit in the world according to the BBC. In this book we see how this fruit that is grown in limited areas of t…
A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery
"This course of lectures is designed to meet the wants of two classes of persons:First—Those who are experienced housekeepers, familiar…
Oysters and Fish
Would it not be beneficial, were the average American to substitute fish for the everlasting steak and chop of the breakfast-table?For the s…
The Khaki Kook Book
We cannot ignore the fact that we must eat, and that much as we dislike to acknowledge it, we are compelled to think a great deal about fill…
Apples in Appealing Ways
This is Apples in Leaflet No. 312 from the U. S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics. After a short intr…
What Diantha Did
Charlotte Perkins Gilman opens a window of history through which we can see a small part of the determined efforts made by women to elevate …
A Taste of New Mexico Kitchens
From the New Mexico Magazine comes a selection of recipes unique to this region, selected from two cookbooks previously published. Sample, …
Cookie 'n' Cracker Cookin'
This is a short recipe book published by the United Biscuit Company of America, later to become the Keebler Company. Each recipe features o…
The Mary Frances Cook Book
Another of the charming Mary Frances books, this one 'Among the Kitchen People', where young girls are encouraged to be mother's helper's in…
Dr. Allinson's cookery book
This is a cookbook promoting vegetarian recipes. The author of the book, Dr. Thomas Allinson, had strong views about health issues - he prom…