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• Cooking, English
• Cooking -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

• The Accomplisht Cook: or, The Art and Mystery of Cookery (fifth edition; London: Printed for O. Blagrave, 1685), by Robert May (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, Which Far Exceeds Any Thing of the Kind Yet Published (new edition London: Printed for A. Millar et al., 1767), by Hannah Glasse, contrib. by Andrew Millar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book for Receipts (manuscript, cover dated 1731) (PDF at vt.edu)
• A Book of Cookrye (1591), by A. W. (HTML at jducoeur.org)
• The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion (14th edition; London: Printed for R. Ware et al., 1750), by E. Smith
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Cook's Pocket-Companion and Compleat Family-Guide: Being a Collection of the Very Best Receipts (London: Printed for J. Staples, 1758), by Lydia Honeywood (page images at NIH)
• 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 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)
• English Housewifry, Exemplified in Above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts, Giving Directions in Most Parts of Cookery (ninth edition; Leeds: Printed for G. Copperthwaite, 1764), by Elizabeth Moxon (multiple formats at Google)
• The Family's Best Friend, or The Whole Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy: Together With a Complete System of Brewery; The Management of Malt Liquors; The Distillery of Simple and Compound Waters, Family Cordials, &c; and Instructions for the Cultivating of the Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen Garden (6th edition; London: Printed for C. Henderson, ca. 1755), by Arabella Fairfax (page images at NIH)
• 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
• The Modern Cook, and Frugal Housewife's Compleat Guide to Every Branch in Displaying Her Table to the Greatest Advantage (Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed for the author, 1782), by E. Spencer (page images at NIH)
• A New Booke of Cookerie (some front matter not transcribed; London: Printed for Iohn Browne, 1615), by John Murrell (HTML in Germany)
• 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 Benefical to All Ingenious Persons of the Female Sex (second edition; London: Printed for R. Lowndes, 1672), by Hannah Woolley (page images in Barcelona)
• Recipe Book (manuscript, 1705), by D. Petre (page images here at Penn)
• 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)
• The Country Housewife's Family Companion (originally published 1750), by William Ellis (HTML and PDF with commenary at soilandhealth.org)
• A Good Huswifes Handmaide for the Kitchin (possibly imperfect transcription of a 1594 London cookbook) (illustrated HTML with commentary at Foods of England)
• 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)
• The English House-Wife: Containing the Inward and Outward Vertues Which Ought to Be in a Compleat Woman (London: Printed for G. Sawbridge, 1675), by Gervase Markham (page images in Barcelona)

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

• The Book of Household Management (London: S. O. Beeton, 1861), by Mrs. Beeton, illust. by Harrison Weir, Myles Birket Foster, and Henry George Hine (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Book of Household Management, by Mrs. Beeton
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at exclassics.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Complete Economical Cook, and Frugal Housewife (14th edition; London: T. Tegg and Son; et al, 1837), by Mary Holland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cook and Housewife's Manual (Edinburgh: Printed for the author, 1826), by C. I. Johnstone (multiple formats at Google)
• The Cook's Oracle (7th edition, 1829), by William Kitchiner (page images at freaknet.org)
• The Eat-Less-Meat Book: War Ration Cookery (revised edition; London and New York: John Lane, 1918), by Mrs. C. S. Peel (page images at Wisconsin)
• High-Class Cookery Recipes, As Taught in the School (from the National Training School for Cookery; London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1885), by Edith Clarke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Home Cookery in War-Time (London: Grant Richards, 1915), by Ernest Oldmeadow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• The London Art of Cookery and Domestic Housekeepers' Complete Assistant (12th edition; London: Printed for Scatcherd and Letterman, 1811), by John Farley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Modern Cookery (based on the first edition, 1845), by Eliza Acton (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The New London Family Cook: or, Town and Country Housekeeper's Guide (London: Printed for J. Cundee, 1808), by Duncan Macdonald
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Plain Plantain: Country Wines, Dishes, and Herbal Cures, From a 17th Century Household M.S. Receipt Book (Ditchling, Sussex: S. Dominic's Press, 1922), by Susanna Avery, ed. by Russell George Alexander (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Preston's Complete English and Chinese Cook Book: A Simple Method of Bettering Kitchen Conditions (in English and Chinese; Shanghai: China Printing Co., 1911), by W. Preston
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Reform Cookery Book: Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century (4th edition; 1909), by Mrs. Mill (Gutenberg text)
• The English Bread-Book for Domestic Use, Adapted to Families of Every Grade (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857), by Eliza Acton (page images at Google)
• The Gentlewomans Companion (1999 edited edition; based on the edition of 1673), ed. by Katherine E. Ellison, contrib. by Hannah Woolley (HTML at Emory)

• 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 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 N. Brook, 1658) (Gutenberg text)
• Receipts of Pastry and Cookery, for the Use of His Scholars (ca. 1720), by E. Kidder (page images here at Penn)
• 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)

• 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)

• American Cookery (Hartford: Printed for 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 French Cook: Prescribing the Way of Making Ready of All Sorts of Meats, Fish and Flesh, With the Proper Sauces, Either to Procure Appetite, or to Advance the Power of Digestion (London: Printed for C. Adams, 1653), by François Pierre de La Varenne, trans. by I. D. G. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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

• Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome: A Bibliography, Critical Review and Translation of the Ancient Book Known as Apicius de re Coquinaria (ca. 1926), by Apicius, ed. by Joseph Dommers Vehling, contrib. by Frederick Starr (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Apicii Librorum X Qui Dicuntur De Re Coquinaria, Quae Extant (in Latin; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1922), by Apicius, ed. by Caesar Giarratano and Friedrich Vollmer
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust

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