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Bartleby
- The Boston Cooking School Cookbook - Full-text
  Author: Farmer, Fannie Merritt
  Publication Date: 1918
Bon Appetit:
- The American Century In Food
The Bread and Biscuit Baker's and Sugar-Boilers Assistant
- Author: Robert Wells
  Publication Date: 1890
Civil War Interactive
- The CWI Cookbook
- Beef and Veal Breakfasts, Cakes and Pies Coffee, Measurements Drinks (Alcohol), Drinks (No alcohol) Pork, Poultry Sauces, Seafood Soups, Vinegars Wild Game, Breads, Vegetables, Pickled Provisions, Other Desserts
Columbus Post-Dispatch
- A Century of Food
Cornell University
- Nestle Library Restaurant Menu Database - 1901-1980
Food Timeline
- Culinary History Timeline
Los Angeles Public Library
- Menu Collection Index and Images - 1900-1999
  Database of menus stored in the Rare Book Room of the Central Library. Images of the actual menus are being added
New York Public Library
- Menu Collection - 1890-present
  One of the world's largest historical collections of menus--over 25,000
- Culinary History - A Research Guide
Professional Pasta - The Origins of Pasta - Just a Bit of Pasta History
Project Gutenberg
- Recipes Tried and True - Full-text
  Author: Marion (Ohio) First Presbyterian Church Ladies' Aid Society
- The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes for Italian Dishes - Full-text
  Author: Mrs. W. G. Waters
The Olde Cookery Book - Pre-1900 cooking and home brewing recipes
University of Michigan: Making of America
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction
- Common Sense in the Household - Full-text
  Author: Harland, Marion
  Title: Common sense in the household; a manual of practical housewifery.
  Publication Date: 1872
- Domestic and Rural Affairs - Full-text
  Author: Storke, Elliot G.,
  Title: Domestic and rural affairs. The family, farm and gardens, and the domestic animals. ... From the latest and best authorities. Ed. by E. G. Storke.
  Publication Date: 1859
- House and Home Papers - Full-text
  Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
  Title: House and home papers.
  Publication Date: 1869
- Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper - Full-text
  Author: Beecher, Catharine E.
  Title: Miss Beecher's housekeeper and healthkeeper: containing five hundred recipes for economical and healthful cooking; also, many directions for securing health and happiness ...
  Publication Date: 1873
- Mrs. Goodfellow's Cookery as it Should Be - Full-text
  Author: Goodfellow,
  Title: Mrs. Goodfellow's cookery as it should be. A new manual of the dining room and kitchen ...
  Publication Date: 1865
- National Cook Book - Full-text
  Author: Peterson, Hannah Mary Bouvier
  Title: The National Cook Book. By a lady of Philadelphia. A practical housewife ; and author of the "Family save-all".
  Publication Date: 1866
- Plain Talk and Friendly Advice to Domestics - Full-text
  Publisher: Phillips, Sampson and companyr
  Title: Plain talk and friendly advice to domestics; with counsel on home matters
  Publication Date: 1855
- Report on Vienna Bread - Full-text
  Author: Horsford, Eben Norton
  Publication Date: 1875
- Wright's Book of 3000 Practical Receipts, or Complete Book of Reference - Full-text
  Author: Wright, A. S.
  Title: Wright's book of 3000 practical receipts, or complete book of reference, containing valuable and important receipts for medicine, cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, confectionary, distilling, perfumery, varnishing, chemicals, dyeing, and agriculture, by A.S. Wright.
  Publication Date: 1869
University of Sydney, Australia: SETIS: Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service
- The Art of Living in Australia - Full-text
  Author: Muskett, Philip E.
  Title: Plain talk and friendly advice to domestics; with counsel on home matters
  Publication Date: 1909
Walton's Self Reliance Pages
- The Old Timer Pages - The Way We Used To Do it...
  The Spring House, The Ice House, Building a Root Cellar, Potting Meat, Salt Curing Meat, Yeast Cultures for Bread Making, Making Bread in a wood burning oven, Making Butter, Making Sauerkraut, Soap Making, Growing and Harvesting Wheat By Hand, Building a Cistern, The Out House, The Homestead House, Getting Electricity, Getting Water

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