Cooking & Food

Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke

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Antonio Colmenero De Ledesma



The Author sings the praises of Chocolate. "By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, e…

Good Things to Eat As Suggested By Rufus

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Rufus Estes



Rufus Estes was born a slave in 1857 in Tennessee, and experienced first hand the turmoil of the Civil War. He began working in a Nashville …

Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses (Version 2)

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Maurice Grenville Kains



Culinary Herbs may be regarded as the secret to preparing good food from antiquity to the the height of culinary art. Maurice Grenville Kain…

Culture and Cooking; Or, Art in the Kitchen

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Catherine Owen



This is not a cookery book. It makes no attempt to replace a good one; it is rather an effort to fill up the gap between you and your househ…

The Story of a Loaf of Bread

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Thomas Barlow Wood



According to the author in the preface, he has "ventured to write this little book with some diffidence, for it deals with farming, mil…

Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery

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Arthur Gay Payne



This is a little cookbook of vegetarian recipes, which were only slowly gaining popularity in England at the time of its publication in 1891…

Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

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Marion Harland



This is a practical guide to running a household in 1883. Marion Harland not only walks us through a number of important topics such as how …

Billy in Bunbury

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Royal Baking Powder Company



This 1924 poem/recipe book, designed as promotional material for the Royal Baking Powder Company, is set in the Oz community of Bunbury. Lit…

Ketchup

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A. W. Bitting



The Bittings have written a number of books on canning and home preparation of food. This short volume includes a brief description of the p…

Rhymed Receipts for Any Occasion

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Imogen Clark



In addition to being amusing, recipes written in a poetic form were easy to remember and used as learning tools for the young housekeeper. M…

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