Cooking & Food
The Chemistry of Cookery
This book, written in the late 1800s, is a book of chemistry that explains the whys and hows of cooking to trained chefs and laymen alike. T…
Culture and Cooking
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…
Six Cups of Coffee
It is not much to say that nine-tenths of that decoction which passes under the name of coffee, is unworthy to be so called, and that many p…
Our Knowledge Box
This practical guide to solving all sorts of problems includes secrets and discoveries covering the Liquor Trade, Druggists' Aids, Manufactu…
Culinary Herbs
Culinary Herbs may be regarded as the secret to preparing good food from antiquity to the the height of culinary art. Maurice Grenville Kain…
Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties
There is positive need of more widespread knowledge of the principles of cookery. Few women know how to cook an egg or boil a potato properl…
Choice Cookery
Choice cookery is not intended for households that have to study economy, except where economy is a relative term; where, perhaps, the house…
The Story of a Loaf of Bread
According to the author in the preface, he has "ventured to write this little book with some diffidence, for it deals with farming, mil…
Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book
The author, H.J. Clayton, subtitles this book, “being a practical treatise on the culinary art adapted to the tastes and wants of all classe…
Good Things to Eat
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 …
Common Sense in the Household
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 …
The Natural History of Chocolate
The Natural History of Chocolate being a Distinct and Particular Account of the Cocoa-tree, its Growth and Culture, and the Preparation, Exc…
Spices, their histories
A surprisingly complete and informative 64-page booklet describing common spices used in cooking and for other purposes. Written especially …
Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BEES, DIRECTIONS FOR OBTAINING THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF PURE SURPLUS HONEY WITH THE LEAST POSSIBLE EXPENSE, REMEDIES FO…
Cocoa and Chocolate
As that heavenly bit of chocolate melts in our mouths, we give little thought as to where it came from, the arduous work that went in to its…
Entertaining Made Easy
This book provides the hostess with ideas for parties and games. There are five sections: Socials and Parties, Outdoor Affairs, Birthdays an…
Mushrooms and Toadstools
This is a useful, but not comprehensive description of both edible and poisonous fungi found in Great Britain. Although the book is well ill…
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 American Housewife
This cookbook and reference guide leads the American Housewife through how to make everything from Meat to Common Drinks, as well as helpful…
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…