Recipes – Food for Thought

Mary Lincoln's 1884 cookbook, The Boston Cook Book.

1800s / Cookbooks and Booklets / Recipes

Fannie Farmer copied Mary Lincoln. This we know. Yet, who did Lincoln copy?

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Recipe for one of the First Potato Chip Casserole Recipes.

1930s / Recipes

Chipping away at History: Katharine Shultz’s Potato Chip Casserole

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hors d'oeuvres painting detail by Gustave Caillebotte

1930s / Recipes

Hors D’Oeuvres Planning

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Cover of Olive S. Allen's cookbook for Crisco, "200 Tested Recipes."

Biographies / Plant-based

Olive S. Allen: A French Home Cook Writes Crisco Recipe Book

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Knox Rainbow Wafer candies recipe.

1934 – Is this a NECCO Wafer?

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1916 History of “Hawaiian Punch”

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Recipe for Shrimp Wiggle cooked in a chafing dish.

Chafing Dish Shrimp Wiggle

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Brownies, dessert recipe from The Boston Cooking School Cook Book, 1906 edition.

1900-1909 / Recipes

First Brownie: Fannie Farmer, Mrs. Palmer

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Beef Stroganoff recipe from French cooking for every home. Adapted to American requirements, by François Tanty, 1893.

1890s / Recipes

1893 Beef Stroganoff Recipe

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