Cooking & Food
Kitchen Tested Recipes from Canned Foods
Another pamphlet by the American Can Company offering ways to cook fish, soups, vegetables and fruits using time-saving cannedingredients. -…
Billy in Bunbury
This 1924 poem/recipe book, designed as promotional material for the Royal Baking Powder Company, is set in the Oz community of Bunbury. Lit…
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 …
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), …
Quicker Ways to Homemade with Bisquick
This Cookbook features 133 recipes that uses Bisquick, invented by the General Mills. General Mills was started in 1866 from a single flour …
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…
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 Food of the Gods
Chocolate! Is it really the "food of the gods?" What we do know, is that the products of the cocoa trees, in one form or another…
Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures
Major Joseph Tilden was in his time one of the most famous Bohemians and epicureans of the Pacific Coast. Ever since his death his many frie…
Cakes & Ale
A long time ago, an estimable lady fell at the feet of an habitual publisher, and prayed unto him:—“Give, oh! give me the subject of a book …
The Cake and Biscuit Book
This is a collection of recipes for all types of cakes and biscuits including sponge cakes, fruit cakes, gingerbread and icings. - Summary b…
Chocolate
In this early treatise, Antonio Colmenero De Ledesma extols the virtues of chocolate, presenting it as a miraculous substance with a wide ar…
Hershey's Baking Chocolate
This little booklet, published by the Hershey Chocolate Corporation, presents a group of basic chocolate recipes including sauces. fudge, ca…
Principles Involved in the Preservation of Fish by Salt
A monograph appended to the 1922 Report of the U.S. Commissioner of Fisheries. Topics covered include the chemical processes involved in pre…
365 Foreign Dishes
This is collection of international recipes with a concentration on European countries, from Austrian Goulasch and Scotch Scones to Egyptian…
Nuts in Family Meals
This is Home and Garden Bulletin Number 176 Prepared by the Science and Education Administration of the United States Agricultural Research …
Entertaining Made Easy
A handy book of ideas for parties, weddings, and wedding showers. - Summary by MaybeCordelia
The Italian Cook Book
One of the beneficial results of the Great War has been the teaching of thrift to the American housewife. For patriotic reasons and for reas…
Food Preparedness
A short pamphlet from WWI, first describing basic nutrition, then discussing what foods may be substituted during food shortages without los…
Pantropheon
Soyer was a 'celebrity chef', devising innovations such as water-cooled refrigerators and adjustable temperature ovens. He developed many po…