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• Food -- Preservation
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• Canning and preserving -- Early works to 1800
• Canned foods industry

• Pickling
• Preserving

• War Food: Practical and Economical Methods of Keeping Vegetables, Fruits and Meats (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917), by Amy L. Handy (page images at Wisconsin)
• Victory Gardens: Handbook of the Victory Garden Committee, War Services, Pennsylvania State Council of Defense (1944), by Warren Bryan Mack, Helen Marshall Eliason, and Pauline Beery Mack, contrib. by Edward Martin and Marion Margery Scranton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The A.B.C. of Canning: Preserving, Drying, Smoking and Pickling of Foods (Chicago: Pub. for Culinary Arts Institute by Consolidated Book Publishers, c1942), ed. by Ruth Berolzheimer, illust. by Ruth Burgess and Carolyn W. Bowerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canned Fruit, Preserves and Jellies: Household Methods of Preparation (USDA Farmer's Bulletin #203; Washington: GPO, 1917), by Maria Parloa (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Canned Fruit, Preserves and Jellies: Household Methods of Preparation (Chicago et al.: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1917), by Maria Parloa (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Preservation of Food: Home Canning (Toronto: Ontario Dept. of Agriculture, 1917), by Ethel Chapman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Queens Delight: or, The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying; As Also a Right Knowledge of Making Perfumes, and Distilling the Most Excellent Waters (London: Printed by E. Tyler and R. Holt for N. Brooke, 1671) (Gutenberg text)
• The Queens Closet Opened: Incomparable Secrets in Physick, Chyrurgery, Preserving, Candying, and Cookery; As They Were Presented to the Queen (fourth edition corrected; London: Printed for N. Brooks, 1658) (page images in Barcelona)
• A True Gentlewomans Delight, Wherein is Contained All Manner Of Cookery; Together with Preserving, Conserving, Drying And Candying (London: W. I. Gent, 1653), by Elizabeth Grey Kent (HTML at Michigan)

• Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1987), by Patricia Zavella (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Commercial Canning in New Jersey: History and Early Development (Trenton: New Jersey Agricultural Society, 1951), by Mary B. Sim (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Story of Salmon (Seattle: Gateway Printing Co., ca. 1920), by Carlisle Packing Company (page images at washingtonruralheritage.org)

• The Story of Salmon (Seattle: Gateway Printing Co., ca. 1920), by Carlisle Packing Company (page images at washingtonruralheritage.org)

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

• Family Fare: A Guide to Good Nutrition (revised edition; Washington: GPO, 1978), by Consumer and Food Economics Institute (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices (7th edition; Waseca, MN: Herter's, 1963), by George Leonard Herter and Berthe E. Herter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cooking by the Garden Calendar (Garden City, NY: American Garden Guild and Doubleday and Co., c1955), by Ruth A. Matson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Congressional Club Cook Book: Favorite National and International Recipes (popular edition; Washington: Congressional Club, 1927), by Congressional Club (Washington, D.C.) (PDF at vt.edu)
• 365 Foreign Dishes: A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year (1908) (Gutenberg text)
• 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)
• "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 (multiple formats 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)
• Elements of the Theory and Practice of Cookery: A Text-Book of Household Science for Use in Schools (New York and London: Macmillan, 1915), by Mary E. Williams and Katharine Rolston Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 (multiple formats 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)
• 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 (multiple formats 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 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 (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)
• 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)
• Temperance Cook Book (second edition; San Jose: Mercury Book and Job Printing Office, 1887), by Mary G. Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Abingdon War-Food Book (New York and Cincinnati: Abingdon Press, 1918), contrib. by Herbert Hoover, Vernon L. Kellogg, John Wesley, and Charlotte Hepburn Ormond
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• All Around the House, or, How to Make Homes Happy (Toronto: J. Robertson, 1881), by Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Frugal Housewife (12th edition, 1832), by Lydia Maria Child (Gutenberg text)
• Miss Beecher's Housekeeper and Healthkeeper, by Catharine Esther Beecher (page images at MOA)
• Motherly Talks with Young Housekeepers (New York: J. B. Ford and Co., 1873), by Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Harvard
• Pot-Pourri From a Surrey Garden (10th edition; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1898), by Mrs. C. W. Earle, contrib. by Constance Lytton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Scholars' Handbook of Household Management and Cookery (London: Macmillan and Company, 1876), by W. B. Tegetmeier (illustrated HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• Thrift for Troubled Times (third edition; London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1917), by National Training School for Cookery (Great Britain) (page images at Wisconsin)
• 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)
• 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
• My Summer in the Kitchen (Indianapolis: Douglass and Carlon, 1878), by Hetty A. Morrison
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Queene Elizabethes Achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert); A Booke of Precedence, The Ordering of a Funerall, &c.; Varying Versions of The Good Wife, The Wise Man, &c.; Maxims, Lydgate's Order of Fools, A Poem on Heraldry, Occleve on Lord's Men, &c. (with Essays on Early Italian and German Books of Courtesy; EETS extra series #8; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1869), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall, contrib. by Humphrey Gilbert, William Michael Rossetti, and Eugene Oswald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Salads and Vegetable Cookery, by Carson Gulley (page images at Wisconsin)
• 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), ed. by Mary L. Edgeworth, contrib. by P. Thornton
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA

• The Art of Cookery, in Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry, With Some Letters to Dr. Lister, and Others (second edition; some material in Latin; London: Printed for B. Lintott, ca. 1709), by William King (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)

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