Cooking Books

Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus

Rufus Estes

"Rufus Estes' Good Things to Eat: The First Cookbook by an African-American Chef" includes nearly 600 mouth-watering recipes: chicken gumbo, chestnut stuffing with truffles, cherry dumplings, southern..

Carving and Serving

Mrs. D. A. Lincoln

This manual is not offered as a guide for special occasions, company dinners, etc., nor for those whose experience renders it unnecessary, or whose means allow them to employ one skilled in the art. B..

The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition

A. W. Duncan

The first edition of 1884 contained but 5 pages of type; the second of 1898, 14 pages. Only by conciseness has it been possible to give even a summary of the principles of dietetics within the limit o..

American Cookery - THANKSGIVING MENUS AND RECIPES

Various Authors

Through the glamour of the Colonial we are forced to acknowledge the classic charm shown in late seventeenth and early eighteenth century window designs. Developed, as they were, by American carpenter..

Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2

Mary Jane McClure

In Germany the government maintains a system of education in what is called intensive farming. Through instructors who go about the country, the farmers are taught how to get a bigger yield from the s..

The American Frugal Housewife

Lydia Maria Child

The true economy of housekeeping is simply the art of gathering up all the fragments, so that nothing be lost. I mean fragments of time, as well as materials. Nothing should be thrown away so long as ..

The American Practical Brewer and Tanner

Joseph Coppinger

Brewing, in every country, whose soil and climate are congenial to the production of the raw materials, should be ranked among the first objects of its domestic and political economy. If any person do..

The Book of Household Management

Mrs. Beeton

Towards the end of the work will be found valuable chapters on the "Management of Children"——"The Doctor," the latter principally referring to accidents and emergencies, some of which are certain to o..