Cooking & Food
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 Ideal Bartender
The book was written by Tom Bullock, a well-known bartender at the St. Louis Country Club. His skills as a bartender were so remarkable that…
Tea
Utility, not originality, has been aimed at in the compilation of this work. The obstacles and difficulties its author had met with in his e…
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…
Wholesome Cooking
Wholesome Cooking, A Practical Book for a Practical Cook, Two Hundred Well-Tested Recipes selected by Ethel Harris. Ten chapters from soup…
Tea and Tea Drinking
Not a complete history of tea, but a pleasant diversion concerning tea, the pleasures found in its drinking, effects, benefits, cautions, et…
Bohemian San Francisco
While describing his dining experiences throughout "Bohemian San Francisco," Clarence Edwords paints an historic panorama of Calif…
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), …
Modern Domestic Cookery
As there is scarce an individual who is not aware of the comfort resulting from a regular and cleanly meal, it may appear to many labor lost…
A Treatise on Foreign Teas
What would England be without tea? It is difficult to imagine, but there was a time in which tea was not quite as ubiquitous in Europe as it…
The Book of Ices
Summer is around the corner, time to make ice cream! This volume contains tried and true recipes for all kinds of cold drinks and desserts t…
Food Values
Food Values by Dr. Albert Philip Sy is a concise guide that emerged during the tumultuous times of World War I, serving as a practical resou…
The New York Cake Book
Starting with general instructions on making cakes we have "fifty recipes from a famous New York Chef." from Almond Cake to Strawb…
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 Something-Different Dish
Author of many traditional books on cooking and recipe collections, Marion Harris Neil presents a slightly off-beat collection of recipes co…
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 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 …
A Handbook of Fish Cookery
This is a very practical book concerning the cooking of fish. The author does not limit herself simply to recipes, but also adds sound advic…
A Poetical Cook-Book
This is an interesting mix of recipes and poetry about cookery and food. The author has written this book during and in the aftermath of the…
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 …