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The American Woman's Home: Or, Principles Of Domestic Science; A Guide To The Formation & Maintenance Of Econo…   by Catharine E. Beecher,  & Harriet Beecher  Bost. 1869   MSU

 

"Aunt Babette's" Cook Book: Foreign & domestic receipts for the household ... [cooking of diverse ethnic group…   by Aunt Babette,  Cin.  1889  MSU 

Betty's Scrapbook of Little Recipes for Little Cooks, Saved from Wisconsin Agriculturist and Farmer (1930s) , by Betty Dahlberg    Wis  

The Blue Grass Cook Book, [Illus. (Photos) A. L. Coburn] ("Never bake a ham under a year old")   by Minnie C. Fox,  NY 1904   MSU

 

Book of 3000 receipts:...medicine, cookery, pastry, preserving, pickling, confect., distilling, perfumery…   by A. S.  Wright,  1869   MoA 

 

The Boston Cooking School Cook Book   by Fannie Merritt Farmer, Bar   1918   1896

Boston School Kitchen Text-book: Lessons in cooking for the use of classes in public & industrial schools    by Mary J. Lincoln, 1891   Har

The Bread and Biscuit Baker's and Sugar-Boiler's Assistant   by Robert Wells,  1890  Ren

 

Breakfast, Luncheon & Tea,   by Marion Harland [pseud.]  NY 1875    MSU

Chinese-Japanese Cook Book ["possibly the first Japanese" cookbook pub in US]   by Sara Bossee, (nee Easton)  Chicago, 1914 MSU  

Chocolate & Cocoa Recipes by Miss Parloa, & Home Made Candy Recipes [ Walter Baker Chocolate…]   by Maria Parloa & Janet McKenzie Hill  1909  MSU     

Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery, by Marion Harland [pseud.]  Mary Virginia Terhune,  NY  1873   MSU 

Confederate Receipt Book. A Compilation of over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times     No Author  Richmond, Va.: West & Johnston, 1863  UNC

The Cook Not Mad, or Rational Cookery; Being A Collection of ... Receipts, Embracing Not Only the Art of Curin…    Watert.  1831  MSU

 

Cookbook ["Manuscript recipe book, 1705, containing medical & cooking recipes"; digital facsimile]   by D. Tetre, fl. 1705  UPa

 

Cookery American Cookery, or the art of dressing viands, fish, poultry, & vegetable …    by Amelia Simmons,  Hartford, 1798   MSU

 

Cookery and Housekeeping: A Manual of Domestic Economy for Large and Small Families.   by Henry Reeve, Mrs Henry Reeve.  1882   Goo

 

Cooking In Old Creole Days. La Cuisine Creole A L'Usage Des Petits Menages ["classic exposition"; illus. Harpe   by Celestine Eustis,  NY  1904   MSU 

The Cook's Dictionary, and House-keeper's Directory: A New Family Manual of Cookery...   by Richard Dolby, Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress). 1830  Goo

The Cook's Own Book: Being A Complete Culinary Encyclopedia…   by N. K. M. Lee,   Boston 1832  MSU

Cost of Living and Retail Prices of Food   1904  Goo 

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, & Hints to Young Housekeepers [Pa. Dutch; Quaker; 19 editions]    by Elizabeth Ellicott Lea,  Balt. 1869  MSU

Dr. Chase's Recipes, or, Information for Everybody [encyclopedia]    by Alvin Wood Chase, (MD)  MSU  1860    1864

Feast Day Cookbook   by Helmut  Ripperger, & Katherine Burton  1951  Cat

Food & Cookery For The Sick & Convalescent   by Fannie Merritt Farmer, Bost.  1904   MS 

Food & Victory: A war supplement to Text-book of cooking   by Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer,   Bost. 1918  Har

 

The Frugal Housewife, or, Complete Woman Cook; wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands is explained in…    by Susannah Carter,  NY 1803   MSU   

 

The Frugal Housewife, Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed of Economy    by Lydia Maria Child, (Francis)  Boston,  1830   MSU

 

Fullstandigaste Svensk-Amerikansk Kokbok / Swedish English Cookbook [bi-lingual]  Chicago, 1987  MSU

 

The Good Housekeeper, or The Way to Live Well & to Be Well While We Live   by Sarah Josephia Buell Hale,  Boston  1839   MSU

 

The Good Housekeeping Woman's Home Cook Book   by Isabel Gordon Curtis,  Chi, 1909   MSU

 

Good Things To Eat: ... Practical Recipes ... Meats, Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc.    by Rufus Estes,  Chi. 1911  MSU

 

The Great Western Cook Book, or Table Receipts, Adapted to Western Housewifery [midwestern]   by Angelina Maria Collins,  NY 1857   MSU

The Grocer's Encyclopedia [449 illus.; "vital to any understanding of the food products, early 20th c."]    by Artemas Ward,  NY  1911  MSU 

Handbook of Practical Cookery for Ladies & Professional Cooks ... [French; cooking schools; "first celebrity…   by Pierre Blot, NY 1868  MSU 

Henriette Davidis' Practical Cook Book. Comp. For The US From The 45th German Ed.... baking & preserve    by Henriette Davidis, Milwke 1897   MSU 

Home Life in Colonial Days     by Alice Morse Earle   MBk   

Hotel Keepers, Head Waiters, & Housekeepers' Guide ["2nd major Black-authored culinary work in US"]   by Tunis Gulic Campbell,  Boston, 1848   MSU

 

The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book    by Victor Hirtzler, Chi. 1919   MSU

 

The House Servant's Directory, or A Monitor for Private Families: Comprising Hints on the Arrangement…    by Robert Roberts,  NY 1827  MSU

 

Household hints & recipes   by Henry T. Williams,   Bost. 1884  Har 

 

The Housekeeper's Assistant, Composed Upon Temperance Principles ... [charity & church; temperance]   by Ann Allen,  Boston, 1845  MSU

 

Housekeeping in Old Virginia, Containing [1700] Contributions from 250 Ladies in Virginia & her Sister States,   by Marion Fontaine Cabell Tyree,  Richmd 1878   MSU

 

The Ideal Bartender [175 classic coctails; hotels; African-American]   by Thomas Bullock,  StLo, 1917  MSU

The Italian Cook Book: The Art Of Eating Well, Practical Recipes Of The Italian Cuisine, Pastries, Sweets…    by Maria Gentile,  NY  1919   MSU

 

Jennie June's American Cookery Book ["incl. chapt. of Jewish Receipts"]    by Jane Cunningham Croly, NY 1870   MSU

 

La Cuisine Creole: A Collection of Culinary Recipes, From Leading Chefs & Noted Creole Housewives ...   by Lafcadio Hearn,  NOrle  1885  MSU

 

The Ladies' New Book of Cookery: A Practical System For Private Families In Town & Country;    by Sarah Josephia Buell Hale,   NY  1852   MSU

Library of Congress and the Interior Decorations   Foster & Reynolds  1897    Goo 

Manual for Army Cooks/Prepared Under The Direction Of The Commissary General Of Subsistence [garrison & camp;   U.S. War Dept. Off. Commissary Gen. Subs   GPO  1896   MSU 

The Market Assistant: ...a Brief Description of Every Article of Human Food Sold in the Public Markets of NYC,    by Thomas Farmington De Voe,   NY 1867   MSU

 

Mary At The Farm And Book Of Recipes Compiled During Her Visit Among The "Pennsylvania Germans,"   by Edith M. Thomas, 1915  MSU

 

The Mary Frances Cook Book; Or, Adventures Among the Kitchen People [illus. Margaret G Hays & Jane Allen Boyer   by Jane Eayre Fryer,  PHila 1912   MSU

 

Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book: Designed As A Supplement To Her Treatise On Domestic Economy.   by Catharine Esther Beecher,  NY 1846   MSU

 

Miss Beecher's housekeeper & healthkeeper: 500 recipes for economical & healthful cooking;   by Catharine Esther Beecher, 1800-78.   1873  MoA

 

Miss Corson's Practical American Cookery & Household Management ["her masterpiece"; early regional; NY Cooking   by Juliet Corson, NY 1886  MSU  

 

Mrs. Goodfellow's cookery as it should be. A new manual of the dining room & kitchen... [illus.]   by Mrs Goodfellow, 1865  MoA

 

Medicinal Recipe Book [cookbook; digital facsimile]   by  D. Petre, fl. 1705   UPa

 

The national cook book. By a lady of Phila. A practical housewife   by Hannah Mary Bouvier Peterson, 1811-70.  1866  MoA

 

The Neighborhood Cook Book/Comp. Under The Auspices Of The Portland Section In 1912, Council Of Jewish Women (Oregon)  2ed  1914   MSU

 

The New-England cookery, or the art of dressing all kinds of flesh, fish, & vegetables      by Lucy Emerson, Montpe  1808   MSU

 

The New England Economical Housekeeper, & Family Receipt Book [economy, frugality]   by Esther Allen Howland,   Cin.  1845  MSU

 

Not by Bread Alone: America's Culinary Heritage [Web Exhibit; facsimiles of early title pages, etc.]   2002  Cor

Old Time Wall Papers: An Account of the Pictorial Papers on Our Forefathers ...      by Kate Sanborn  1905    Goo

The Oriental Cook Book; Wholesome, Dainty And Economical Dishes Of The Orient, Especially Adapted To American    by Ardashes H. Keoleian,  NY 1913   MSU

Pills Petticoats And Plows The Southern Country Store    by Thomas D. Clark   University Of Oklahoma Press, 1944  OpL  

Practical Cooking & Dinner Giving [12 illus. pgs cooking utensils -- "most valuable"]   by Mary Newton Foote Henderson, NY  1877   MSU

 

The Practical Housekeeper: A Cyclopaedia of Domestic Economy   by Elizabeth Fries Ellet,  NY 1857  MSU

 

Practical Sanitary & Economic Cooking Adapted to Persons of Moderate & Small Means    by Mary Hinman Abel, Amer Public Health Assn;  NY, 1890   MSU

 

Presbyterian Cook Book, Compiled By The Ladies Of The First Presbyterian Church, Dayton, Ohio  1873   MSU 

Presbyterian Cook Book, Compiled By The Ladies Of The First Presbyterian Church, Dayton, Ohio   Dayton 1873   MSU 

Principles of Domestic Engineering: Or, The What, why and how of a Home...    by Mary Pattison  1915   Goo

Science in the Kitchen. A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances & their Dietetic Properties...Principles   by Ella Eaton Kellogg,  Chicago, 1893 MSU  

The Settlement Cook Book: Containing Many Recipes Used In Settlement Cooking Classes, The Milwaukee Public Sch    by Lizzie Black Kander, Milwke 1901    MSU

 

Seventy-five Receipts For Pastry, Cakes, & Sweetmeats    by Eliza Leslie,  Bost. 1832   Gut   MSU  

 

Smiley's cook book & universal household guide: A comprehensive collection of recipes…    by James Bethuel Smiley, Chicago,  1901   Har

 

The Virginia Housewife: or, Methodical Cook   by Mary Randolph,  Balt. 1838    MSU

 

Washington Women's Cook Book [Washington Equal Suffrage Assn.]   by Linda Deziah Jennings,  Seattle 1909  MSU

 

What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking [African-American, born in slavery; Women's Co-Op Printing   by Abby Fisher,   SFranc 1881   MSU

 

When mother lets us cook: ... simple receipts for little folk: w/cooking rules in rhyme, …     by Constance Johnson,  NY   1908   Har

 

White House Cook Book: A Selection of Choice Recipes Original & Selected, During a Period of 40 Years' Practice   by Fanny Lemira Gillette,   Chi. 1887   MSU

 

The Woman Suffrage Cook Book: Containing thoroughly tested & reliable recipes for cooking, directions for care…    by Hattie A. Burr, (Mrs.)  Boston, 1890   MSU

 

The Young House-Keeper: or, Thoughts on Food & Cookery [diet, nutrition, homemaking]   by William Andrus Alcott,  Boston,  1846  MSU

 

Zuni Breadstuff [Museum Of The American Indian]    by Frank Hamilton Cushing,  NY  1920  MSU