Cooking Books

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches

Eliza Leslie

We recommend to all families that they should keep in the house: a pair of scales, (one of the scales deep enough to hold flour, sugar, &c., conveniently,) and a set of tin measures: as accuracy i..

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

Elizabeth E. Lea

The compiler of "Useful Receipts and Hints to Young Housekeepers" having entered early in life upon a train of duties, was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of domestic affairs. For, whilst rece..

New Vegetarian Dishes

Mrs. Bowdich

There are already a good many vegetarian cookery books, ranging in price from one penny to half-a-crown, but yet, when I am asked, as not unfrequently happens, to recommend such a book, I know of only..

The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened

Kenelm Digby

With the waning of Sir Kenelm Digby's philosophic reputation his name has not become obscure. It stands, vaguely perhaps, but permanently, for something versatile and brilliant and romantic. He remain..

The Cyder-Maker's Instructor, Sweet-Maker's Assistant, and Victualler's and Housekeeper's Director

Thomas Chapman

The following Receipts and Directions are not collected from books, nor interspersed with old women's nostrums; but they are, in very truth, the result of my own LONG EXPERIENCE in trade, founded on c..

Foods That Will Win The War And How To Cook Them

Alberta M. Goudiss

Food will win the war, and the nation whose food resources are best conserved will be the victor. This is the truth that our government is trying to drive home to every man, woman and child in America..