Cooking & Drinking
Explore a rich collection of classic cooking and drinking books that bring time-honored recipes and traditions to your kitchen. Discover guides that cover everything from simple meals to gourmet feasts, alongside tips for perfecting cocktails and beverages. These timeless works offer practical advice and delicious inspiration for both novice cooks and seasoned culinary enthusiasts. Rediscover the joys of cooking and sharing meals with these vintage treasures.
The Cookery Blue Book
Step back in time to explore a collection of late 19th-century recipes, from nourishing soups and hearty breakfasts to savory meats and tempting desserts, revealing the tastes and culinary traditions of a bygone era.
By First Unitarian Society of San Francisco. Society for Christian Work
Cacao Culture in the Philippines
Discover the secrets to cultivating cacao in the Philippine islands, where rich flavors mingle with agricultural strategies for prosperity.
By William Scrugham Lyon
Over 250 Ways to Cook and Serve Fish and Other Productions of the Sea A Choice Collection of Recipes, Representing the Latest and Most Approved Methods of Cooking
Discover hundreds of time-tested techniques to transform basic ingredients from the sea into culinary masterpieces.
By Shute & Merchant
The royal baker and pastry cook : $b A manual of practical cookery
Unlock the secrets to creating perfect cakes, pastries, and breads, all while learning the essential techniques to transform your kitchen into a personal bakery.
By Royal Baking Powder Company
A guide to modern cookery
Discover how to revolutionize your culinary skills by learning to combine traditional methods with groundbreaking techniques for light, elegant dishes.
By A. (Auguste) Escoffier
The peaches of New York
Discover the secrets of turn-of-the-century peach cultivation, where the fruit's history, botany, and economic impact intertwine to reveal its agricultural significance in New York.
By U. P. Hedrick
New Mexico Magazine's A Taste of New Mexico Kitchens
Explore the vibrant world of Southwestern flavors with classic and unique New Mexican dishes.
By Anonymous
Sweet Clover: Harvesting and Thrashing the Seed Crop
Discover how to maximize your sweet clover harvest with expert tips on timing, machinery, and thrashing techniques for a bountiful yield.
By H. S. Coe
The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling
Discover how to create stunning lifelike flowers from wax, guided by the artist who crafted them for royalty.
By Emma Peachey
Beef Slaughtering, Cutting, Preserving, and Cooking on the Farm
Discover the secrets to transforming a live animal into a delicious and preserved food source, all within the confines of your own farm.
By H. Russell Cross
Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin
From childhood memories to decades of hands-on experience, discover how one man conquered the odds to successfully grow nuts where others thought it impossible.
By Carl Weschcke
Aunt Caroline's Dixieland recipes
Discover time-tested recipes from a Virginia cook and bring the flavors of classic Southern home-cooking to your own kitchen.
By Emma McKinney
Common Sense for Housemaids
A frustrated visitor writes a guide to teach inexperienced maids how to properly clean and manage a home after enduring a stay in a poorly kept house.
By Ann Fraser Tytler
The Boston cooking-school cook book
Discover how to transform your kitchen into a laboratory as a turn-of-the-century guide reveals the secrets of scientific cookery.
By Fannie Merritt Farmer
Dinners and Diners: Where and How to Dine in London
Discover the finest restaurants and social dining experiences in London through the eyes of a seasoned guide, perfect for luxury seekers and those with simpler tastes.
By Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel) Newnham-Davis
The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families
Step back in time and learn to master the kitchen and home, with expert advice on everything from cooking to cleaning.
By Mary Eaton
Classic Variations in Cooking with Texas Eggs
** Discover a world of culinary possibilities with one simple ingredient as you whip up both beloved classics and exotic creations using the humble egg.
By Anonymous
10 Cakes Husbands Like Best: From Spry's Recipe Round-up
Discover a collection of vintage cake recipes designed to win over husbands, complete with baking tips and delightful frosting suggestions.
By Lever Brothers Company
Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sauce vsed with vs, and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues
Embark on a 17th-century journey into the art of gardening, where cultivating beauty and bounty becomes a testament to nature's divine design.
By John Parkinson
Ketchup: Methods of Manufacture; Microscopic Examination
** Discover the science behind your favorite condiment as you explore early methods of production, from selecting the perfect tomatoes to examining the final product under a microscope for quality and safety.
By A. W. (Arvill Wayne) Bitting