Cooking & Food
Food Preparedness
A short pamphlet from WWI, first describing basic nutrition, then discussing what foods may be substituted during food shortages without los…
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…
Pantropheon
Soyer was a 'celebrity chef', devising innovations such as water-cooled refrigerators and adjustable temperature ovens. He developed many po…
Betty Crocker's Bisquick Cook Book
Betty Crocker, a creation of General Mills, has become synonymous with good American cooking and nearly every household had one of her cook …
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…
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…
365 Foreign Dishes
This is collection of international recipes with a concentration on European countries, from Austrian Goulasch and Scotch Scones to Egyptian…
30 Tempting Spaghetti Meals
This is a small booklet of recipes featuring Franco American products produced as a promotional piece by the Campbell Soup Company, but cont…
The Golden Rule Cook Book
M. R. L. Sharpe, (Maud Russell Lorraine Carpenter) was Boston socialite and activist for animal rights and vegetarianism. These ethical co…
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…
10 Cakes Husbands Like Best
Cakes and more cakes! All of these ten recipes promote the use of Homogenized Spry Shortening. From Chocolate Rapture Cake to Hawaiian Lei…
Bohemian San Francisco
While describing his dining experiences throughout "Bohemian San Francisco," Clarence Edwords paints an historic panorama of Calif…
Ryzon Baking Book
This book is a collection of recipes highlighting the use of Ryzon brand baking powder. Recipes were submitted by readers and selected by a…
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 Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical Every-Day Cookery
Food is one of the necessities but also one of the greatest pleasures. Knowing how to cook a good meal is therefore extremely important for …
Santa's Sampler
This is a collection of recipes published as a fund raiser for the St. Louis Alumnae Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Theta .fraternity. As the t…
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 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…
Choice Recipes and Menus using Canned Foods
American Can Company has compiled here 130 recipes featuring a broad spectrum of commercially canned foods including meats, fish, vegetables…
Baker's Coconut Recipes
This is a brief collection of recipes, each featuring coconut as a commercial promotion from the Franklin Baker Company. Most focus on desse…