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Cookbooks and Booklets

Food history, vintage cookbooks and recipe cooking booklets from the 1800s and 1900s.

young mother making banana dessert at table as her baby in the high chair watches.
1920s / Cookbooks and Booklets / Plants & Minerals

1925: Yes! 100 ways to enjoy Bananas

1925: Yes! 100 ways to enjoy Bananas Seymour
girl holding tomatoes in her hand, standing in a tomato garden.
1920s / Cookbooks and Booklets / Plants & Minerals

1924: 50 Ways to use Tomato Flavor

1924: 50 Ways to use Tomato Flavor Seymour
Young woman contemplating her bills and account records.
Animals / Cookbooks and Booklets

1920: Jell-O, America’s Most Famous Dessert

1920: Jell-O, America’s Most Famous Dessert Seymour
Jayne company preserving booklet with woman holding up colorful preserved fruit jar.
1920s / All Foods, General / Cookbooks and Booklets

1927: A Handbook for Preserving, Canning & Pickling

1927: A Handbook for Preserving, Canning & Pickling Seymour
woman holding up a cake on a tray that she just baked with shortning.
1920s / Cookbooks and Booklets / Plants & Minerals

1927: 40 Tested Recipes, Best Foods Shortning

1927: 40 Tested Recipes, Best Foods Shortning Seymour
young woman stirring baking batter.
1910s / Cookbooks and Booklets

1918, April: Home Cookery Magazine

1918, April: Home Cookery Magazine Seymour
young woman stirring baking batter.
1910s / Cookbooks and Booklets

1918, October: Home Cookery Magazine

1918, October: Home Cookery Magazine Seymour
Woman making jams.
1900-1909 / Cookbooks and Booklets / Plants & Minerals

1909 What a Cook Ought to Know about Corn Starch

1909 What a Cook Ought to Know about Corn Starch Seymour
Victorian woman dressed in a yellow dress and white apron pouring milk over bowl of shredded wheat cereal.
1900-1909 / Cookbooks and Booklets / Plants & Minerals

1908: 148 Shredded Wheat and Triscuit Recipes

1908: 148 Shredded Wheat and Triscuit Recipes Seymour
grandmother age woman trimming a pie crust.
1910s / Cookbooks and Booklets / Plants & Minerals

1910: What a Cook Ought to Know about Corn Starch

1910: What a Cook Ought to Know about Corn Starch Seymour
two tweens cutting a fruit pie
1910s / Cookbooks and Booklets / Plants & Minerals

1910: Karo Cook Book

1910: Karo Cook Book Seymour
Woman in red dress and apron in kitchen baking with Victorian wood-burning stove in background
1910s / All Foods, General / Cookbooks and Booklets

1910: Dr Miles Cook Book

1910: Dr Miles Cook Book Seymour
Young woman sitting stirring mixing bowl with a spoon, amused at child hogging the can of Karo syrup.
1900-1909 / Cookbooks and Booklets / Plants & Minerals

1909 Karo Cook Book with handwritten recipes

1909 Karo Cook Book with handwritten recipes Seymour
German baker rolling pastry dough.
1900-1909 / Animals / Cookbooks and Booklets

c. 1905 Illustrated Cooks of All Nations

c. 1905 Illustrated Cooks of All Nations Seymour
Woman using Hires extracts to make homemade beverages.
1910s / Cookbooks and Booklets / Plants & Minerals

c. 1915: Hires Household Extract Delicious, Refreshing

c. 1915: Hires Household Extract Delicious, Refreshing Seymour
Mother teaching her son to bake.
1920s / Cookbooks and Booklets / Plants & Minerals

1920s A Few Cooking Suggestions

1920s A Few Cooking Suggestions Seymour
a home baker.
1910s / BAKING / Cookbooks and Booklets

1912 Sperry Flour-Cereal Cook Book

1912 Sperry Flour-Cereal Cook Book Seymour
Woman making recipe from a cookbook.
1900-1909 / Cookbooks and Booklets / Plants & Minerals

1909 Duryeas’ Corn Starch Cook Book

1909 Duryeas’ Corn Starch Cook Book Seymour
women with apron carrying plate to catch meat after the meat is ground.
1900-1909 / Cookbooks and Booklets / Cookware & Gadgets

1906 The Enterprising Housekeeper

1906 The Enterprising Housekeeper Seymour
woman with pink dress and white apron mixing batter.
1910s / BAKING / Cookbooks and Booklets

c. 1920 Reliable Recipes

c. 1920 Reliable Recipes Seymour
Women dressed in blue dress placing fruit into a Kerr glass jar.
1910s / Cookbooks and Booklets

c. 1919 Kerr Home Canning Book

c. 1919 Kerr Home Canning Book Seymour
My-T-Fine Pudding.
1920s / Cookbooks and Booklets / Plants & Minerals

1928: Good Things to Eat

1928: Good Things to Eat Seymour
little girl reading a book with her mother at the breakfast table.
1890s / Cookbooks and Booklets

Shredded Wheat Victorian Trade Card

Shredded Wheat Victorian Trade Card Seymour
Gray-haired woman pouring flavor extract into a spoon.
1910s / Cookbooks and Booklets / Plants & Minerals

1916 Savory Dishes: Kitchen Bouquet Extract

1916 Savory Dishes: Kitchen Bouquet Extract Seymour
How to Be Polite, book from 1887.
1880s / All Foods, General / Cookbooks and Booklets

1887: How to Be Polite… How to Eat…

1887: How to Be Polite… How to Eat… Seymour
Handwritten Cookbook
All Foods, General / Cookbooks and Booklets

eBooks

eBooks Seymour
comparing noodle dough with resulting noodles.
Cookbooks and Booklets

Homemade Pasta: Noodle Recipes from 1700s to Early 1900s

Homemade Pasta: Noodle Recipes from 1700s to Early 1900s Seymour
1930s radio, front facing.
All Foods, General / Cookbooks and Booklets

Aunt Sammy’s Radio Show

Aunt Sammy’s Radio Show Seymour
Larkin package of spice from 1913.
All Foods, General / Cookbooks and Booklets

Ode to a old Larkin cookbook

Ode to a old Larkin cookbook Seymour

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1935 Blue ribbon winner from Hero, Vermont for Sno-Sheen flour.

1935 Winner of the Pillsbury Blue Ribbon, Ella Way

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Dainty Dishes booklet by Maria Parloa.

Maria Parloa COOKBOOKS and BOOKLETS

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Watermelon Cake.

1930s New Party Cakes for All Occasions – Gold Medal – Watermelon Cake, etc. – Betty Crocker cake recipe booklet

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Boy and a girl eating sandwiches.

The Versatility of Baker’s Yeast: Uncovering Forgotten Uses from Yeast Booklets on eBay

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c. 1920: A Selection of Choice Recipes

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Kitchen Stories

training a cook, first day luncheon.

Eureka! Cottage Life, Part II: Teaching the Cook, 1880s

September 19, 2023September 20, 2023

Davy Crockett's Tennessee log cabin.

Meal to Meal with Davy Crockett

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