Cooking & Food
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…
Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes
Indulge your sweet tooth with Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes by Maria Parloa, a delightful collection of recipes that celebrates the rich flavo…
The History of the Art of Tablesetting
The art of table setting is one of the lost arts in the modern household. Do we just not bother anymore or did we collectively forget how to…
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…
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), …
The Banana
Bananas are the most popular fruit in the world according to the BBC. In this book we see how this fruit that is grown in limited areas of t…
Tea and the Effects of Tea Drinking
William Scott Tebb gives a history of tea through 1903. He describes the origin, tea plant, harvesting, distribution, popularity and the mak…
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…
A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery
"This course of lectures is designed to meet the wants of two classes of persons:First—Those who are experienced housekeepers, familiar…
What Diantha Did
Charlotte Perkins Gilman opens a window of history through which we can see a small part of the determined efforts made by women to elevate …
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…
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 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…
A Little Candy Book for a Little Girl
Join Betsey Bobbitt, a girl with an undeniable sweet tooth, as she discovers new recipes for candy and sweets to make with the reader. An en…
Condiments, Spices and Flavors
In this pamphlet no attempt has been made to give specific directions as to the uses of spices and condiments. It must be borne in mind that…
Cookie 'n' Cracker Cookin'
This is a short recipe book published by the United Biscuit Company of America, later to become the Keebler Company. Each recipe features o…
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 …
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…
The Mary Frances Cook Book
Another of the charming Mary Frances books, this one 'Among the Kitchen People', where young girls are encouraged to be mother's helper's in…
A Taste of New Mexico Kitchens
From the New Mexico Magazine comes a selection of recipes unique to this region, selected from two cookbooks previously published. Sample, …