Cooking -- Early works to 1800

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• Cooking
• Home economics -- Early works to 1800

• Canning and preserving -- Early works to 1800
• Cooking, American -- Early works to 1800
• Cooking, Austrian -- Early works to 1800
• Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800
• Cooking, German -- Early works to 1800
• Salads -- Early works to 1800

• The Compleat Cook: Expertly Prescribing the Most Ready Wayes, Whether Italian, Spanish, or French, for Dressing of Flesh, and Fish, Ordering of Sauces, or Making of Pastry (London: Printed by E. B. for Nath. Brook, 1658)
  • page images in Spain
  • Gutenberg text
• Liber Cure Cocorum (Middle English original, and modern English translation), ed. by Richard Morris, trans. by Cindy Renfrow (page images and HTML at pbm.com)
• Receipts of Pastry and Cookery, for the Use of His Scholars (ca. 1720), by E. Kidder (page images here at Penn)

• The Queens Closet Opened: Incomparable Secrets in Physick, Chyrurgery, Preserving, Candying, and Cookery; As They Were Presented to the Queen (London: Printed for Nathaniel Brooks, 1658) (page images in Spain)
• A Queens Delight: or, The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying, As Also a Right Knowledhe of Making Perfumes, and Distilling the Most Excellent Waters (London: Printed for Nath. Brooke, 1671) (page images in Spain)

• American Cookery (Hartford: Printed S. Butler, 1798), by Amelia Simmons (multiple formats with commentary at MSU)

• Ein Buch von Guter Speise (in German; Stuttgart: Literarischer Verein, 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Accomplisht Cook, or, The Art and Mystery of Cookery (fifth edition; London: Printed for Obadiah Blagrave, 1685), by Robert May (page images in Spain)
• Book for Receipts (manuscript, cover dated 1731) (PDF at vt.edu)
• A Book of Cookrye (1591), by A. W. (HTML at jducoeur.org)
• The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm (sixth edition, ca. 1732), by Richard Bradley (Gutenberg text)
• The Country Housewife's Family Companion (1750), by William Ellis (HTML at soilandhealth.org)
• The English Art of Cookery, According to the Present Practice (London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1788), by Richard Briggs (multiple formats at Google)
• The English House-Wife: Containing the Inward and Outward Vertues Which Ought to Be in a Compleat Woman (London: Printed for George Sawbridge, 1675), by Gervase Markham (page images in Spain)
• English Housewifry, Exemplified in Above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts, Giving Directions in Most Parts of Cookery (ninth edition; Leeds: Printed for George Copperthwaite, 1764), by Elizabeth Moxon
  • HTML in Australia
  • page images in Spain
• The Forme of Cury, A Roll of Ancient English Cookery, Compiled, About A. D. 1390, by the Master-Cooks of King Richard II (London: Printed by J. Nichols, printer to the Society of Antiquaries, 1780), contrib. by Samuel Pegge
  • page images at pbm.com
  • Gutenberg text
• A New Booke of Cookerie (some front matter not transcribed; London: Printed for Iohn Browne, 1615), by John Murrell (HTML in Germany)
• A Noble Boke Off Cookry Ffor a Prynce Houssolde or Eny Other Estately Houssolde: Reprinted Verbatim From a Rare Ms. in the Holkham Collection (London: Elliot Stock, 1882), ed. by Robina Napier (text at medievalcookery.com)
• A Proper Newe Book of Cokerye (London: J. Kynge and T. Marche, ca. 1570) (HTML in Germany)
• The Queen-Like Closet, or Rich Cabinet, Stored with All Manner of Rare Receipts for Preserving, Candying and Cookery: Very Pleasant and Venefical to All ingenious Persons of the Female Sex (second edition; London: Printed for Richard Lowndes, 1672), by Hannah Woolley (page images in Spain)
• Recipe Book (manuscript, 1705), by D. Petre (page images here at Penn)

• Ein Buch von Guter Speise (in German; Stuttgart: Literarischer Verein, 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets (Brooklyn: Pub. by the Women's Auxiliary, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1937), by John Evelyn, contrib. by Helen Morgenthau Fox (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year (1908) (Gutenberg text)
• All Around the House, or, How to Make Homes Happy (Toronto: J. Robertson, 1881), by Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Allied Cookery: British, French, Italian, Belgian, Russian (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1916), ed. by Grace Clergue Harrison and Gertrude Clergue (page images at Wisconsin)
• The American Frugal Housewife (12th edition, 1832), by Lydia Maria Child (Gutenberg text)
• "Aunt Babette's" Cook Book: Foreign and Domestic Receipts for the Household (11th edition; Cincinnati and Chicago: Bloch Publishing and Printing Co., c1889), by Bertha F. Kramer (HTML and page images with commentary at MSU)
• Chinese and English Cook Book (in Chinese and English; 1913), by Chong Jan & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.) (page images at Harvard)
• First Lessons in the Principles of Cooking, in Three Parts (London: Macmillan, 1886), by Lady Barker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Frugal Housewife: or, Complete Woman Cook (New York: G. and R. Waite, 1803), by Susannah Carter (HTML and page images with commentary at MSU)
• Gems of Fancy Cookery: A Collection of Reliable and Useful Household Recipes (Goderich, Ont.: F. Jordan, ca.1890) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Health in the House: Twenty-Five Lectures on Elementary Physiology in Its Application to the Daily Wants of Man and Animals, Delivered to the Wives and Children of Working-Men in Leeds and Saltaire (eighth edition), by Catherine M. Buckton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Henriette Davidis' Practical Cook Book: Compiled for the United States From the 35th German Edition; Containing an Appendix of Receipts for Dishes Prepared in Styles Peculiar to Cooking As Done in This Country (Milwaukee: C, N. Caspar and H. H. Zahn and Co., 1897), contrib. by Henriette Davidis (HTML and page images with commentary at MSU)
• The Improved Housewife, or Book of Receipts; With Engravings for Marketing and Carving (14th Edition; 1851), by Mrs. A. L. Webster (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally (fourth edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1852), by Mrs. Loudon
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper, by Catharine Esther Beecher (page images at MOA)
• The Morristown Cook Book (Morristown, NJ: Vogt Bros., c1900) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Pet Recipes, Tried and True (Quebec: Daily Telegraph Publishing House, 1900), by Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy, and Adapted to the Use of Private Families (London: Printed for J. Murray et al., 1807), by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (HTML and page images with commentary at MSU)
• Pan-Pacific Cook Book: Savory Bits From the World's Fare (San Francisco, Blair-Murdock Co., 1915), by L. L. McLaren (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Salads and Vegetable Cookery, by Carson Gulley (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Scholars' Handbook of Household Management and Cookery (London: Macmillan and Company, 1876), by W. B. Tegetmeier (illustrated HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Skilful Housewife's Guide: A Book of Domestic Cookery, Compiled From the Best Authors (Montreal: Armour and Ramsay; et al., 1848), by Mrs. L. G. Abell (HTML at Guelph)
• The Skillful Housewife's Book: or, Complete Guide to Domestic Cookery, Taste, Comfort and Economy (35th thousand; New York: O. Judd and Co., c1852), by Mrs. L. G. Abell (multiple formats at Google)
• The Southern Gardener and Receipt-Book: Containing Valuable Information, Original and Otherwise, on All Subjects Connected With Domestic and Rural Affairs, Gardening, Cookery, Beverages, Dairy, Medical, Veterinary, and Miscellaneous (third edition; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and co., 1860), by Mary L. Edgeworth, contrib. by P. Thornton (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Thrift for Troubled Times (third edition; London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1917), by National Training School for Cookery (Great Britain) (page images at Wisconsin)

• The Federation Cook Book: A Collection of Tested Recipes, Contributed by the Colored Women of the State of California (ca. 1910), by Bertha L. Turner, contrib. by Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman and Kate Mann Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Federation Cook Book: A Collection of Tested Recipes, Contributed by the Colored Women of the State of California (2007 reprint of the 1910 edition), by Bertha L. Turner, contrib. by Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman and Kate Mann Baker (multiple formats at Google)

• The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, c1845), by Mrs. Loudon (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Englishwoman in India: Containing Information for the Use of Ladies Proceeding to, or Residing in, the East Indies, on the Subjects of Their Outfit, Furniture, Housekeeping, the Rearing of Children, Duties and Wages of Servants, Management of the Stables, and Arrangements for Travelling; To Which are Added Receipts for Indian Cookery (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1864), by A Lady Resident (multiple formats at Google)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.