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Cooking & Drinking — page 5
275 public-domain cooking & drinking books, summarised. Page 5 of 6.
The Theory and Practice of Brewing
Michael Combrune
This technical treatise offers a meticulous, scientific framework for 18th-century brewing, replacing traditional guesswork with the systematic application of the thermometer and chemical principles. It serves as a foundational bridge between folk craft and modern industrial brewing science.
You're really cooking when you're cooking with Seven-Up!
Seven-Up Company
Discover a mid-century approach to home cooking that transforms standard pantry staples into sparkling, lemon-lime infused culinary experiments. This collection reimagines everyday meals through the unconventional addition of a carbonated soft drink.
The art and mystery of curing, preserving, and potting all kinds of meats, game, and fish
Anonymous
Mastering the delicate boundary between well-cured provisions and spoiled meat requires equal parts chemical precision, clean fuel, and patience.
The kitchen encyclopedia
Swift & Company
This practical manual serves as a 1911 guide to domestic efficiency, blending culinary instruction with home maintenance tips, all while championing the economical use of "Swift’s Premium Oleomargarine.
What to drink : The blue book of beverages
Bertha E. L. (Bertha Edson Lay) Stockbridge
A clever reinterpretation of Omar Khayyam’s famous verse sets the tone for a domestic manual born of historical necessity. When Prohibition reshaped American entertaining, home cooks needed a new vocabulary for hospitality.
The Compleat Cook: Expertly Prescribing the Most Ready Wayes, Whether Italian
W. M.
In an age before standardized measurements or electric ranges, a seventeen-century kitchen relied on aromatic spices, heavy earthenware, and the artful handling of fire and sugar.
10 Cakes Husbands Like Best: From Spry's Recipe Round-up
Lever Brothers Company
This collection serves as a guide for home bakers seeking to delight their families with time-tested, reliable cake recipes. It bridges the gap between domestic aspiration and culinary success through precise, standardized methods.
Cottage Cheese Recipe Book: Appetizers, Salads, Salad Dressings, Breads, Main Dishes, Desserts
Milk Industry Foundation (U.S.)
A versatile dairy staple transforms from a humble side dish into the starring component of everything from savory appetizers to sophisticated desserts. This guide elevates a pantry basic through a collection of mid-century culinary ingenuity.
One hundred & one Mexican dishes
Unknown
A collection of diverse, rustic recipes from early 20th-century California and Mexico, this manual presents a culinary bridge between cultures. It captures a specific era’s fascination with regional flavors and traditional methods of preparation.
Cups and Their Customs
George Edwin Roberts
A guide to the conviviality of the past, this work combines historical curiosities with practical recipes for the traditional, spice-laden compound drinks known as "cups.
The Wine Press and the Cellar: A Manual for the Wine-Maker and the Cellar-Man
Emmet H. (Emmet Hawkins) Rixford
Cultivating fine wine in the untamed vineyards of 19th-century California required a marriage of pioneer grit and rigorous laboratory science. This technical manual remains a fascinating testament to that era’s transition from folk tradition to systematic viticulture.
Bohemian San Francisco: Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining
Clarence E. (Clarence Edgar) Edwords
This is an immersive, nostalgic guide to the golden age of San Francisco dining, capturing the spirit and the recipes of a city defined by its love for the table.
Take a Can of Salmon
United States. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
A pantry staple takes center stage, moving from simple childhood lunches to elegant dinner tables across the country.
The Philadelphia Housewife
Hodgson, Mary, active 1855
Good cooking rests on clean equipment, exact timing, and plain, unpretentious ingredients that respect a household's financial means.
Marion Harland's Cookery for Beginners: A Series of Familiar Lessons for Young Housekeepers
Marion Harland
Good bread is the quiet foundation of a healthy home, requiring neither expensive ingredients nor complex machinery, but patient hands and an exact understanding of heat and rising.
Money-Saving Main Dishes
United States. Agricultural Research Service. Human Nutrition Research Division
A practical manual offers home cooks creative strategies to stretch every grocery dollar while serving nourishing, flavorful dinners. Clear nutritional principles transform humble ingredients into satisfying household meals.
How to Cook Fish
Myrtle Reed
This thorough culinary volume demystifies sea preparation, organizing hundreds of precise, elegant seafood recipes with an exhaustive clarity designed to turn any home cook into an expert fishmonger.
30 Tempting Spaghetti Meals: Easy, Economical, Delicious
Campbell Soup Company
Transforming a simple pantry staple into a diverse array of family dinners is the primary focus of this guide. It offers a practical strategy for home cooks to build satisfying, budget-conscious meals using a specific brand of prepared pasta.
Party sweets
Mary Blake
Sweetness is a science, and with the right pantry staple, even the most daunting candy-making tasks become reliable, everyday successes.
Tea, Its Mystery and History
Samuel Phillips Day
The humble tea leaf serves as a bridge between ancient Eastern tradition and the modern rituals of the Western parlor, promising both physical vitality and social harmony in every cup.
Frye's Practical Candy Maker: Comprising Practical Receipts for the Manufacture of Fine "Hand-Made" Candies
George V. Frye
This technical manual offers a candid, professional look at the nineteenth-century craft of confectionery, providing precise instructions for the dedicated artisan looking to produce high-quality, hand-made goods.
Many Ways for Cooking Eggs
S. T. Rorer
This collection serves as a definitive manual for transforming the humble egg into a sophisticated centerpiece, offering a vast array of preparations that elevate simple kitchen staples into elegant, reliable meals.
Common-Sense Papers on Cookery
A. G. (Arthur Gay) Payne
The kitchen is an extension of the parlor, and a well-managed household begins not with the servants, but with the mistress’s own understanding of the art of food.
The Economical Jewish Cook: A Modern Orthodox Recipe Book for Young Housekeepers
May Henry
In late-nineteenth-century London, a modest manual reframes traditional Jewish cookery through the lens of modern domestic science, proving that keeping a strictly kosher, observant home can be achieved on a tight budget.
Baker's Coconut Recipes
Franklin Baker Co.
This collection serves as a guide for incorporating preserved coconut into home baking, positioning the ingredient as a nutritious and convenient staple for the early twentieth-century kitchen. It offers a practical bridge between raw tropical produce and the pantry-ready convenience of standardized, factory-sealed…
The "ideal" cookery book: A reliable guide for home cooking: containing 249 useful and dainty recipes (third edition)
Lilian Clarke
This collection offers a pragmatic glimpse into the domestic kitchen of the early 20th century, distilling the culinary wisdom of an era into clear, efficient instructions for the home cook.
Spices, Their Nature and Growth
Md.) McCormick & Co. (Baltimore
A guide to the global origins and careful preparation of household staples, bridging the distance between remote tropical harvests and the modern American kitchen.
The Auxiliary cook book
Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society. Auxiliary Society
Cooking serves as an act of stewardship and charity in this collection, where household management, culinary tradition, and personal grace intertwine to support a noble cause: the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York Orphan Asylum.
Cheese and its economical uses in the diet
Caroline Louisa Hunt
A sensible, clear-eyed guide to elevating cheese from a mere after-dinner condiment to a primary, cost-effective cornerstone of the daily diet.
Home-made cider vinegar
Walter G. (Walter George) Sackett
This guide offers a practical, scientific manual for transforming surplus orchard fruit into high-quality vinegar, shifting the process from haphazard guesswork to a reliable, managed craft. It serves as a bridge between the traditional farm kitchen and the precision of the laboratory.
High-class cookery made easy
Hart, J., Mrs.
The kitchen is a place of rigorous order, where the smallest speck of dirt can undo hours of labor, and a well-made stock is the soul of every successful meal. This guide demystifies the craft of the professional kitchen for the home cook, proving that high-standard results are entirely within reach through…
Fifty soups
Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson) Murrey
A master caterer reveals the art of constructing rich, balanced soups through foundational techniques, disciplined stock-making, and precise culinary harmony.
Left-over foods and how to use them
Elizabeth O. Hiller
A disciplined kitchen transforms neglected cold roasts, stray egg yolks, and stale heels of bread into refined, appetizing meals. Through exact measurements, proper refrigeration, and methodical technique, culinary thrift becomes an elevated daily art.
Home Manufacture and Use of Unfermented Grape Juice
George C. (George Charles) Husmann
Preventing harvest waste on the farm requires only basic household tools, careful thermal management, and an understanding of microscopic ferments.
Secrets of Making Frozen Desserts at Home: 150 Tested Recipes: Easier, More Economical, More Delicious
Anonymous
Turning ice and salt into cold luxury requires precise mechanics and a willingness to stretch standard pantry ingredients. This manual offers an exact, step-by-step framework for turning home kitchens into reliable domestic creameries.
The Art of Drinking: A Historical Sketch
Georg Gottfried Gervinus
A civilization reveals its true spirit not in its high theories, but in how its people gather to empty a glass.
Seasoning Suggestions: Revealing the Chef's Seasoning Secrets for Improving Over One Hundred and Fifty Dishes With Lea & Perrins' Sauce
Lea & Perrins Limited
A collection of culinary advice centered on the application of a specific condiment, this guide demonstrates how a single, scientifically blended sauce can elevate home cooking to the standards of professional dining.
Dairying exemplified, or, The business of cheese-making: Laid down from approved rules, collected from the most experienced dairy-women, of several counties. Digested under various heads. From a series of observations, during thirty years practice in the cheese trade. The second edition corrected and improved
J. (Josiah) Twamley
This guide offers a methodical approach to the craft of cheese-making, grounded in thirty years of trade experience and the accumulated wisdom of eighteenth-century dairy-women. It serves as both a technical manual and a practical corrective for those seeking consistency and quality in their dairy production.
Dressed Game and Poultry à la Mode
Mrs. (Harriet Anne) De Salis
Culinary refinement meets the Victorian sporting tradition in this practical guide to transforming wild game and poultry into sophisticated table fare. It serves as a distillation of late nineteenth-century expertise for the ambitious home cook.
The A B C of Cooking
Adeline Balch Coit
This practical guide serves as a foundational manual for individuals navigating the challenges of cooking in austere environments, from small boats and patrol vessels to field camps and marches. It offers straightforward, essential instruction for those with no prior culinary experience.
Carving and Serving
Mary J. (Mary Johnson) Lincoln
A calm, methodical manual turns the chaos of the dining table into an exercise in domestic grace, precision, and quiet consideration for others.
Congress Hotel, Home of a Thousand Homes: Rare and Piquant Dishes of Historic Interest
Irving S. Paull
This culinary guide invites the reader into the opulent, historic kitchens of Chicago’s Congress Hotel, blending classic recipes with the storied anecdotes of the figures who inspired them.
Recipes from American National
American National Insurance Company
A mid-century community cookbook compiles prized family recipes that reflect the practical home cooking of mid-twentieth-century America.
Royal fruit gelatin suggestions
Royal Baking Powder Company
This culinary guide celebrates the art of home entertaining through the versatility of fruit-flavored gelatin. It presents a vision of the modern, efficient hostess who balances sophisticated hospitality with ease and grace.
The Production of Vinegar from Honey
Gerard W. Bancks
Pure honey mixed with water and left to the work of microscopic fungi yields a gentle, aromatic table condiment far superior to the harsh, chemically manipulated vinegars common to industrial domestic markets.
Certo: A Short Cut to Better Jams and Jellies
General Foods Corporation
This guide serves as a practical manual for home preservers seeking to modernize their kitchen techniques through the use of a commercial pectin product. It outlines a systematic, high-speed approach to transforming fruit into stable spreads.
Homemade candy—sweet and dandy
CPC International. Best Foods Division
Homemade candy offers a precise, structured guide to crafting confections at home. It demonstrates how simple pantry staples like corn syrup, sugar, and margarine transform into textures ranging from creamy fudge to brittle, glass-like sugar work.
Breakfasts and Teas: Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions
Paul Pierce
To host a social gathering is to choreograph an experience, blending culinary art with the delicate mechanics of human interaction. This guide transforms the logistical challenge of entertaining into a series of elegant, thematic performances.