Historical
Culinary & Brewing Documents Online
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texts that are now available online. We are compiling a
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Index:
Links to Online E-Texts of Historical Cookbooks
Links to Online E-texts of old Brewing Books
Works
in-progress.
Original Source Material Online:
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of these manuscripts are in need of English translation. If you are
interested in doing this work, please email cindy at thousandeggs.com
For a list of historical cookbooks currently being transcribed or translated
see http://culinaryhistory.org
FRENCH
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"Le Menagier
de Paris" - With the assistance of Greg
Lindahl, I'm slowly posting the enormous food & cookery chapter
of this 14th century French work to the Medieval & Renaissance Food
Homepage. The text is in medieval French.
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"Le Menagier de Paris" has been translated into English
by
Janet Hinson, and posted by David Friedman.
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DUFOUR, Philippe Sylvestre, 1622-1687 -- TRAITEZ
Nouveaux curieux DU CAFE', DU THE' ET DU CHOCOLATE. Ouvrage également
necessaire aux M. [...] e [...] à tous ceux qui ai[...] leur Ianté.
Par PHILIPPI SILVESTRE DUFOUR A quoy on a adjouté dans cette Edition,
la meilleure de toutes les methodes, qui manquoit à ce Livre , pour
composer L'EXCELLENTE CHOCOLATE Suivant la Copie de Lyon. -- requires search
of search author index for Dufour.
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Du
fait de Cuisine" by Master Chiquart, 1420.
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Enseignements
qui enseingnent a apareillier toutes manieres de viandes (ca. 1300)
(Bibl.
Nationale, ms. lat. 7131, fol. 99va - in French
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Taillevent:
Viandier (Manuscrit du Vatican), Pichon/Vicaire, Le Viandier,
1892, repr. 1967 - in French
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[Le]
viandier / de Guillaume Tirel dit Taillevent ; publ. par le baron Jérôme
Pichon et Georges Vicaire - in facsimile
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The 'Viandier'
of
the manuscript Bibliothèque cantonale du Valais, Sion, S 108
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Le
Viandier de Taillevent - English translation by James
Prescott.
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La Varenne, François Pierre de. Le
Cuisinier françois où est enseigné la maniere
d'apprêter toute sorte de viandes, de faire toute sorte de patisseries
& de confitures : reveu & augmentée d'un traité de
confitures seiches & liquides & pour apprêter des festins
aux quatre saisons de l'année / par le sieur de La Varenne... A
Lyon : chez Jacques Canier ..., 1680.
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"Aldobrandino's
Régime du corps is a dietetic text written in the 13th century..."
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Physiologie
du goût, ou Méditations de gastronomie transcendante [Document
électronique] / par un professeur (J.-A. Savarin), Num. BNF
de l'éd. de Paris :INALF, 1961-.Reprod. de l'éd. de Paris
: Charpentier, 1847
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Excellent
& moult utile opuscule à touts necessaie , Nostradamus 1555
- digitized images - the confitures-section begins fol. 133ff.
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OVVERTVRE DE CVISINE, Par Maistre Lancelot de Casteau, Montois,
en son temps Maistre Cuisinier de trois Princes de Liege. Premierement
à Monsieur Robert de Berghe, Conte de VValhain, Euesque de Liege.
Secondement à Monsieur Gerard de Groisbeeck, Cardinal & Euesque
de Liege. Tiercement à Noble & puissant Prince Ernest,
Duc de Bauiere, Archeuesque de Cologne, Electeur, & Euesque de Liege,
&c. Auec permission des Superieurs. A LIEGE, Par Leonard
Streel Imprimeur iuré. M.D.CIIII. - translation by James Prescott
& Jeremy Fletcher, et al. See transcription
and translation
into English .
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Dufour, Philippe Sylvestre. Traitez
nouveaux & curieux dv café, dv thé et dv chocolate
: ouvrage également necessaire aux medecins & à tous
ceux qui aiment leur santé. A Lyon : chez Iean Girin & B. Riviere
..., 1685.
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Bonnefons, Nicolas de. Les
Delices de la campagne : suitte du Jardinier françois : où
est enseigné à preparer pour l'usage de la vie tout ce qui
croist sur la terre & dans les eaux... A Amsterdam : chez Iean Blaev,
1661.
LATIN
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Magninus
Mediolanensis, Opusculum de saporibus 15th c. - in Latin
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Anthimus: De observatione
ciborum - EPISTULA ANTHIMI uiri inlustris comitis et legatarii
ad gloriosissimum Theudoricum regem Francorum de obseruationem ciborum
- 6th Century
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Tractatus de
modo preparandi et condiendi omnia cibaria (probably early 14th c.;
in Latin)
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De
flore dietarum 13th c. dietary treatise, edited by Piero Cantalupo
. Includes a glossary
of terms.
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Apici, Celi. De
re culinaria libri decem. Lugduni [Lió] : apud Seb. Gryphium,
1541.
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Bruyerin, Jean Baptiste. De
re cibaria libri XXII : omnivm ciborvm genera, omnium gentium moribus
& vsu probata complectentes.
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Galè, Claudi. De
alimentorvm facvltatibvslibri III. Parisiis : apvd Simonem Colinaevm,
1530.
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FLAVI
VEGETI RENATI VIRI INLUSTRIS COMITIS EPITOMA REI MILITARIS LIBRI
IIII - how to feed the troops. - In Latin
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PORCI
CATONIS CENSORIS DE AGRI CVLTVRA - In Latin
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Liber
de coquina ubi diuersitates ciborum docentur (saec. XIV.) -- Text based
upon: Mulon, Marianne: Deux traités inédits d'art culinaire
médiéval. In: Bulletin philologique et historique (jusqu'à
1610) du Comité des Travaux historiques et scientifiques. Année
1968: Actes du 93e Congrès national des Sociétés savantes
tenu à Tours. Volume I: Les problèmes de l'alimentation.
Paris 1971, 369-435; the text of the Liber de coquina on p. 396-420.
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Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, medical/culinary poem posted
here
and here.
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GERMAN
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Thomas
Gloning's Collection of Culinary & dietetic texts from the Middle
Ages to 1800, featuring (among many others):
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Anton Birlinger (Hg.): Ein
alemannisches Büchlein von guter Speise. In: Sitzungsberichte
der Königlich bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München.
Phil.-hist. Klasse. 1865. Band II. München 1865.
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Das
Buch von guter Speise (um 1350) --- Textgrundlage: Hans Hajek (Hg.):
Das buoch von guoter spise. Aus der
Würzburg-Münchener Handschrift. Berlin
1958.
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Das
Kochbuch des Meisters Eberhard (15. Jh.)
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Mittelniederdeutsches
Kochbuch - Textgrundlage: Hans Wiswe (Hg.): Ein mittelniederdeutsches
Kochbuch
des 15. Jahrhunderts. In: Braunschweigisches Jahrbuch
37 (1956) 19-55.
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Two recipes in the 'Mittelalterliches
Hausbuch' (15th c.) - "Fladen" and "Ein gebackens".
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Aus
der Küche der deutschen Ordensritter. In: Prussia 31 (1935) 118-124.
"Nach der Schrift zu urteilen könnte dieses anscheinend älteste
Kochbuch Ostpreußens in der 2. Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts entstanden
sein" (Gollub S. 118).
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Berthilde Danner:
Alte Kochrezepte aus dem bayrischen Inntal. In: Ostbairische Grenzmarken
12 (1970) 118-128.
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Das
Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin. Hg. von Hugo Stopp. Mit einer Übersetzung
von Ulrike Gießmann. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C.
Winter Heidelberg, 1980
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Hans
Dernschwams Bericht über Ernährungsgewohnheiten in der Türkey,
Ungarn usw. (16. Jh.) -- Hans Dernschwam's report on 16th century food,
foodways and cookery in Turkey, Hungary etc.
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Koch
vnd Kellermeisterey 1566
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Balthasar Staindl, Kochbuch, 1569:
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Marx Rumpolt, Ein
new Kochbuch, Frankfurt a.M. 1581 (in progress)
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Leonharti
Rauwolfen (...) Aigentliche beschreibung der Raiß/ so er vor
diser zeit gegen Auffgang in die Morgenländer/ fürnemlich Syriam,
Iudæam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam
etc. nicht ohne geringe mühe vnnd grosse gefahr selbs volbracht (...).
Lauingen: Leonhart Reinmichel 1582.
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Anna Wecker: Ein
Köstlich new Kochbuch (Amberg 1598).
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H. Müller: Kochrezepte
aus dem 16. Jahrhundert. In: Rheinisch-westfälische Zeitschrift
für Volkskunde 14 (1967) 83-86.
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Ein
Koch- Und Artzney-Buch. Gedruckt zu Grätz/ Bey denen Widmanstetterischen
Erben 1686, Seite 1-118 (Kochbuch-Teil).
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Deutliche
und vollständige Anweisung zur Trenchir-Kunst.
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Das
kleine jedermann nützliche und wohleingerichtete Franckfurter
Koch=Buch (...). Vierte Auflage. Frankfurt a.M. 1789.
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Neues
Hannöverisches Kochbuch. Jn zwey Theilen. Verbessert und vermehret
von einem praktischen Koche [= J.D. Knopf]. Neueste Ausgabe. Hannover,
bey den Gebrüdern Hahn, 1800.
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Die
Bayersche Köchin in Böhmen. Ein Buch, das sowohl für
vornehme, als gewöhnliche Küchen eingerichtet ist, und in beiden
mit besonderem Nutzen gebraucht werden kann. Herausgegeben von Maria Anna
Neudecker, geb. Ertl, Traiteurin am Franzenspark bei Eger. A. F. Karlsbad,
gedruckt bei F.J. Franieck 1805. [PDF, ca 14.5 MB]
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Nürnberger
Puppen-Kochbuch. Herausgegeben von Tante Betty. Neunte Auflage. Nürnberg
1896
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From Marx Rumpolt, Ein
New Kochbuch, c. 1581 Transliteration and translation © 1999 by
M. Grasse
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Von
Speisen, natuerlichen und kreuter Wein, aller verstand was printed
in 1531 in Frankfurt am Main. Alia Atlas.
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Rumpoldt,
1581 - partial facsimile
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Kochbuch,
Staindl, 1564 - 10 scanned facsimile pages with woodcut
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From Marx Rumpolt, Ein
New Kochbuch, c. 1581 - [CLXXIXb]Von allerley Zucker Confect
Ausz der Apotecken. Of assorted sugar comfits (as) from the apothecaryTransliteration
and translation © 1999 by M. Grasse
DANISH / SCANDINAVIAN
DUTCH
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Keukenboek
(UB Gent Hs. 1035, 15th century) - Dutch - 1872 edition by Serrure.
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"Wel
ende edelike spijse", c.1500 A.D. - Manuscript UB GENT 1035 - in transcription
with Modern Dutch & English translations.
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10 scanned pages from Het
Eerste Nederlandsche Gedrukte Kookbek, Brussel, Thomas Van der Noot,
c. 1510.
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Het
eerste gedrukte Nederlandsche kookboek, Brussel, Thomas vander Noot
(+/- 1510) The First Printed Dutch Cookbook. Another translation (in progress)
with glossary & pictures.
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'Een notabel boecxken van cokeryen het welc bewijst
alle spise te bereiden elc na sinen staet het si in bruylochten in feesten
bancketten oft ander maeltyden besondere en het es eenen ieghelijcken
van grooten noode te hebben die sijn dinghen ter eeren doen wilt.' Gheprint
inde pryncelijcke stadt van Bruesel inden Zeeridder Bi mi Thomaes vander
Noot. [ca. 1514] -- transcription and translation into English completed,
being proofread -- Christina J.
van Tets
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Transcription in Dutch and glossary by Marleen Willebrands
at http://www.kookhistorie.nl/NBC/index_nbc.htm
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1593
Dutch cookbook "Cocboeck" by Carolus Battus, transcription in Dutch by
Marleen Willebrands (with facsimile). Contact Marleen Willebrands at: Kookhistorie
at gmail dot com. (http://www.kookhistorie.nl/cb/index_cb.htm)
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English translation. English translation, currently being
translated. If you would like more information, please contact Jennifer
Strobel at JennS at cmu dot edu.
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Magirus, M. Antonius (Leuven 1612) Koocboec
ofte Familieren Keukenboec. In octavo, (16), (137), (11) p., Royal
Library of Belgium, III 17.312 A(RP). Dutch edition by Hilde Sels,
Jozef Schildermans en
Marleen Willebrands (email: Kookhistorie at gmail dot com.) (website: http://www.kookhistorie.nl/magirus/magirus1612.htm
and http://www.magirus.net/langswitch_lang/en)
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De
verstandige kock (Amsterdam 1667 and 1669). Transcription in Dutch
and glossary by Marleen Willebrands. Contact Marleen Willebrands at: Kookhistorie
at gmail dot com. Some recipes translated into English by Peter Rose. (http://www.kookhistorie.nl/VK/transcriptie.htm)
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Rembert Dodoens: (http://www.kookhistorie.nl/paddo/dodoens.htm)
transcription and facsimile of the chapter about mushrooms, de 'campernoelien
oft duyvelsbroot'. In: 'Cruydt-Boeck' (Antwerpen 1644, p. 783-790)
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Franciscus van Sterbeeck: (http://www.kookhistorie.nl/paddo/sterbeeck.htm)
'Treatise on mushrooms', 'Tractaet van de campernoillien, ghenaemt duyvelsbroot'
(Antwerpen 1668; modern text edition 2006).
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ENGLISH
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Liber Cure Cocorum (15th century) facsimile
of 1862 transcription.
Transcription.,transcription
with simultaneous translation.
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John Russell's Book
of Nurture (c.1460)
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Culinary Recipes from the Pepys Manuscript, MS
Pepys 1047 - late 1400s - work in progress, Facsimile, transcription
& translation by James Matterer
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"The Forme of
Cury" - (14th century English ) This is the 1785 copy edited by Samuel
Pegge. The text includes all Pegge's notes and gloss, plus another manuscript
cookbook entitled "Ancient Cookery." New! --Download the text, courtesy
of Project Gutenberg, as a pdf
file.
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Two
fifteenth-century cookery-books : Harleian MS. 279 (ab 1430), &
Harl. MS. 4016 (ab. 1450), with extracts from Ashmole MS. 1439, Laud MS.
553, & Douce MS. 55, ed. by Thomas Austin - unfortunately, this text
is somewhat corrupted, but you can still read most of it. Another
version is available here.
A critical edition of this work with translation, adapted recipes, etc.,
is available.
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A Book
of Cookrye, by A. W., London, 1591. Originally published
1584. STC 24897 -- Early English Text microfilms reel 1613:9. Transcribed
by Mark and Jane Waks.
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The Book
of Kervynge
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The
good huswifes handmaide for the kitchen (1594
and 1597 editions) -- digital version and notes by Sam Wallace.
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Receipts
of Pastry and Cookery For the Use of his Scholars, by Ed. Kidder (1665
or 6-1739) - digital transcription by Janet Clarkson. Facsimile
by U. Penn.
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The
English Housewife Containing the inward and outward Vertues which ought
to be in a Compleat Woman... A Work generally approved, and now the Ninth
time much Augmented, Purged, and made most profitable and necessary for
all men, and the general good of this NATION. By G. Markham. LONDON, Printed
for Hannah Sawbridge, at the Sign of the Bible on Ludgate Hill, 1683.
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May, Robert. The
Accomplisht cook, or The art & mystery of cookery. London : printed
for Obadiah Blagrave ..., 1685.
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Markham, Gervase. The
English House-wife : containg [sic] the inward and outward vertues
which ought to be a compleat woman... London : printed for George Sawbridge
..., 1675.
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Medieval
food -- A new and exciting display by the British Library featuring
facsimile pages from Forme of Cury, Boke of Kokery, etc. Click on page
image for zoom.
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1500s
food -- A new and exciting display by the British Library featuring
facsimile pages from The Good Huswifes Jewell, The Widdowes Treasure, etc.
See also selections for1600s
Food and 1700s
food.
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The
Queens closet opened : incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery,
preserving, candying and cookery as they were presented unto the Queen
by the most experienced persons of our times, many whereof were honoured
with her own practise, when she pleased to descend to these more private
recreations. London : printed for Nathaniel Brooks ..., 1658.
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Woolley, Hannah. The
Queen-like closet, or Rich cabinet : stored with all manner of rare
receipts for preserving, candying and cookery : very pleasant and beneficial
to all ingenious persons of the female sex.. London : printed for Richard
Lowndes.., 1672.
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Moxon, Elizabeth. English
houswifry exemplified in above four hundered and fifty receipts, giving
directions in most parts of cookery ... : with cuts for the orderly placing
the dishes and courses, also bills of fare for every month in the year
and an alphabetical index to the whole ... Leeds : printed by Griffith
Wright : for George Coperhwaite
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A
Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen, or, The Art of preseruing, Conseruing,
and Candying. London; John Haviland, 1627. pdf format.
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A
Proper newe Booke of Cokerye, declarynge what maner of meates be beste
in season, for al times in the yere, and how they ought to be dressed,
and serued at the table, bothe for fleshe dayes, and fyshe dayes. With
a newe addition, verye necessarye for all them that delyghteth in Cokerye.
(mid-16th circa 1557 - 1558) -- Text: Frere, Catherine Frances (ed.):
A proper newe booke of cokerye. With notes, introduction and glossary;
together with some account of domestic life, cookery and feasts in Tudor
days, and of the first owner of the book, Matthew Parker, Archbishop of
Canterbury, and Margaret Parker his wife. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons
Ltd. 1913.
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A
Propre new booke of Cokery / declaryng what maner of meates bee best
in ceason for all tymes of [th]e yere and how thei ought to bee dressed
and serued at the table bothe for flessh daies and fisshe daies with a
newe addicion / veri necessarye for all them that delighteth in cokery.
Imprinted at London in Paules churchyard by Richard Lant and Richarde Bankes.
Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum. M.D.XLV. Transcription
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John Murrell: A
new booke of Cookerie; London Cookerie. London 1615 -- Text: A NEVV
BOOKE of Cookerie. VVherein is set forth the newest and most commendable
Fashion for Dressing or Sowcing, eyther Flesh, Fish, or Fowle. Together
with making of all sorts of Iellyes, and other made-Dishes for seruice;
both to beautifie and adorne eyther Nobleman or Gentlemans Table. Hereunto
also is added the most exquisite London Cookerie.
All set forth according to the now, new, English and French fashion. Set
forth by the obseruation of a Traueller. I.M. LONDON: Printed for Iohn
Browne, and are to be solde at his Shop in S. Dunstanes Church-yard. 1615.
-- Reprint Amsterdam/ New York 1972.
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The
Compleat cook : expertly prescribing the most ready wayes, whether
italian, spanish or french, for dressing of flesh and fish, ordering of
sauces or making of pastry. London : printed by E.B. for Nath. Brook ...,
1658.
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Delightes
for Ladies To adorne their Persons, Tables, Closets and Distillatories:
with Beauties, Banquets, Perfumes and Waters. By Hugh Plat. At London
Printed by Humfrey Lownes. 1609 - partial, not proofread
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The
Good Huswifes Jewell Wherein is to be found most excellent and
rare Devises for conceites in Cookery, found out by the practise of Thomas
Dawson. Whereunto is adjoyned sundry approved receits for many soveraine
oyles, and the way to distill many precious waters, with divers approved
medicines for many diseases. Also certain approved points of husbandry,
very mecessary for all Husbandmen to know. Newly set foorth with
additions. 1596. Imprinted at London for Edward White dwelling at the little
North doore of Paules at the signe of the Gun. - partial, not proofread.
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Mrs. B.P. Benet, Lathrop Lodge, Swindon, Wilts. Her
Book of Recipes from about 1796. - Recipes from a privately owned MS.
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• Richard Bradley: The Country Housewife and
Lady´s Director, London 1728-32. pdf format.
Part
I (1728)
Part
II (1732)
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RECIPES
TRIED AND TRUE. COMPILED BY THE LADIES' AID SOCIETY OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH, MARION, OHIO. 1894.
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CONFEDERATE
RECEIPT BOOK. A COMPILATION OF OVER ONE HUNDRED RECEIPTS,
ADAPTED TO THE TIMES. WEST & JOHNSTON, RICHMOND. 1863. G. W.
GARY, Printer, 21 Pearl Street.
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Manuscript
Cookbook of D. Petre, 1705, facsimile
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Receipts
of Pastry and Cookery For the Use of his Scholars, by Ed. Kidder (1665
or 6-1739) - facsimile cookbook.
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The Boston Cooking-School
Cook Book, 1918 edition of the Fannie Farmer Cookbook
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Seventy-five
Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats by Eliza Leslie
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The
Gentlewoman's Companion, by Hannah Woolley
Feeding
America: Historical American Cookbook Project. "The Michigan State
University Library and the MSU Museum are partnering to create an online
collection of the most important and influential 19th and early 20th century
American cookbooks." Books are presented in html, xml, in facsimile and
in pdf, so I won't bother linking to each title and option individually.
The above link will take you to the main index. Online holdings thusfar
include:
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American Cookery: Or, The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry,
and Vegetables, and the Best Modes of Making Pastes, Puffs, Pies, Tarts,
Puddings, Custards, and Preserves, and All Kinds of Cakes, from the Imperial
Plum to Plain Cake... By: Amelia Simmons
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The American Woman's Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science;
Being a Guide to the Formation and Maintenance of Economical, Healthful,
Beautiful, and Christian Homes. By: Catharine Esther Beecher
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"Aunt Babette's" Cook Book: Foreign and Domestic Receipts
for the Household: A Valuable Collection of Receipts and Hints for the
Housewife, Many of Which Are Not to be Found Elsewhere. By: "Aunt Babette"
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The Blue Grass Cook Book, Comp. By Minnie C. Fox, with an
introduction by John Fox, jr.; Illustrated with photographs by A.L. Coburn.
By: Minerva C. Fox
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The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. By: Fannie Merritt
Farmer
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Breakfast, Luncheon And Tea. By: Marion Harland [Pseud.]
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Buckeye Cookery, and Practical Housekeeping: Compiled from
Original Recipes. By: Estelle Woods Wilcox
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Chinese-Japanese Cook Book. By: Sara Bosse and Watanna Onoto
[Pseud.]
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Chocolate And Cocoa Recipes, By Miss Parloa, And Home Made
Candy Recipes, By Mrs. Janet McKenzie Hill. By: Janet McKenzie and
Miss Parloa
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Common Sense In The Household: A Manual Of Practical Housewifery.
By: Marion Harland
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The Complete Confectioner, Pastry-Cook And Baker. By: Eleanor
Parkinson
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The Complete Cook. Plain and Practical Directions For
Cooking and Housekeeping, With Upwards of Seven Hundred Receipts: Consisting
of Directions for the Choice of Meat and Poultry…and With General Directions
for Making Wines. By: J.M. Sanderson
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The Cook Not Mad, Or, Rational Cookery: Being a Collection
of Original and Selected Receipts... Prevalent with the American Publick
in Town and Country... To Which are Added Directions for Preparing Comforts
for the Sick Room... By: Unknown
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The Cook's Own Book; Being A Complete Culinary Encyclopedia...
With Numerous Original Receipts And A Complete System Of Confectionery.
By A Boston Housekeeper. By: N.K.M. Lee
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Cooking in Old Creole Days. By: Celestine Eustis
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La Cuisine Creole, A Collection of Culinary Recipes from
Leading Chefs and Noted Creole Housewives, Who Have Made New Orleans Famous
for its Cuisine. By: Lafcadio Hearn
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La Cuisine Francaise. French Cooking for Every home. Adapted
to American Requirements. By: Francois Tanty
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Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches. By: Eliza
Leslie
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Dishes and Beverages of the Old South By: Martha McCulloch
Williams
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Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers.
By: Elizabeth E. Lea
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Dr. Chase's Recipes; Or, Information for Everybody: An Invaluable
Collection of About Eight Hundred Practical Recipes…By: A.W. Chase
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The Epicurean. A Complete Treatise of Analytical and Practical
Studies on the Culinary Art, Including Table and Wine Service, How to Prepare
and Cook Dishes? etc., and a Selection of Interesting Bills of Fare of
Delmonico's from 1862 to 1894 By: Charles Ranhofer
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Favorite Dishes. By: Carrie V. Shuman
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Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent. By: Fannie
Merritt Farmer
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Foods of the Foreign-Born in Relation to Health. By: Bertha
M. Wood
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The Frugal Housewife: Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed
of Economy. By: Lydia Maria Francis Child
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The Frugal Housewife: Or, Complete Woman Cook; Wherein the
Art of Dressing All Sorts of Viands is Explained in Upwards of Five Hundred
Approved Receipts... By: Susannah Carter
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The Good Housekeeper: Or, The Way To Live Well And To Be
Well While We Live: Containing Directions For Choosing And Preparing Food,
In Regard To Health, Economy And Taste. By: Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
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The Good Housekeeping Woman's Home Cook Book. By: Isabel
Gordon Curtis
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Good Things to Eat. By: Rufus Estes
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The Great Western Cook Book, Or Table Receipts, Adapted to
Western Housewifery. By: Anna Maria Collins
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The Grocer's Encyclopedia. By: Artemas Ward
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Hand-book Of Practical Cookery, For Ladies And Professional
Cooks. Containing The Whole Science And Art Of Preparing Human Food.
By: Pierre Blot
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Henriette Davidis' Practical Cook Book, Comp. For The United
States From The Thirty-fifth German Ed. By: Henriette Davidis
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Hotel Keepers, Head Waiters, and Housekeepers' Guide. By:
Tunis Campbell
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The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book. By: Victor Hirtzler
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The House Servant's Directory, Or A Monitor For Private Families:
Comprising Hints On The Arrangement And Performance Of Servants' Work…
And Upwards Of 100 Various And Useful Receipts, Chiefly Compiled For The
Use Of House Servants… By: Robert Roberts
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The Housekeeper's Assistant, Composed Upon Temperance Principles:
With Instructions In The Art of Making Plain And Fancy Cakes, Puddings,
Pastry, Confectionery, Ice Creams, Jellies, Blanc Mange: Also, For The
Cooking Of All The Various Kinds of Meats… By: Ann Allen
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Housekeeping In Old Virginia/Containing Contributions From
Two Hundred And Fifty Ladies In Virginia And Her Sister States... By: Marion
Fontaine Cabell Tyree
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The Ideal Bartender By: Thomas Bullock
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The International Jewish Cookbook: 1600 Recipes According
To The Jewish Dietary Laws With The Rules For Kashering: The Favorite Recipes
Of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Ect., Ect.
By: Florence Kreisler Greenbaum
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The Italian Cook Book. By: Maria Gentile
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Jennie June's American Cookery Book: Containing Upwards Of
Twelve Hundred Choice And Carefully Tested Receipts; Embracing All The
Popular Dishes, And The Best Results Of Modern Science...Also, A Chapter
For Invalids, For Infants, One On Jewish Cookery... By: Jane Cunningham
Croly
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The Ladies' New Book Of Cookery: A Practical System For Private
Families On Town And Country; With Directions For Carving, And Arranging
The Table For Parties, Ect. Also, Preparations Of Food For Invalids And
For Children. By Sarah Josepha Hale... By: Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
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The Lady's Receipt-Book: A Useful Companion For Large Or
Small Families. By: Eliza Leslie
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Manual for Army Cooks By: United States Subsistence Dept.
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The Market Assistant, Containing a Brief Description of Every
Article of Human Food Sold in the Public Markets of the Cities of New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn... By: Thomas Farrington De Voe
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Mary At The Farm And Book Of Recipes Compiled During Her
Visit Among The "Pennsylvania Germans," By Edith M. Thomas. With Illustrations...
By: Edith M. Thomas
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The Mary Frances Cook Book: Or, Adventures Among the Kitchen
People. By: Jane Eayre Fryer
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Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book: Designed As A Supplement
To Her Treatise On Domestic Economy. By: Catharine Esther Beecher
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Miss Corson's Practical American Cookery And Household
Management. By: Juliet Corson
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Miss Parloa's New Cook Book: A Guide to Marketing and Cooking.
By: Miss Parloa
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Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book: What To Do and What Not
To Do in Cooking. By: Mary Johnson Lincoln
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Mrs. Rorer's New Cook Book; a Manual of Housekeeping. By:
Sarah Tyson Rorer
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The Neighborhood Cook Book Compiled Under The Auspices Of
The Portland Section In 1912, Council of Jewish Women. By: The Council
of Jewish Women
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A New System Of Domestic Cookery, Formed Upon Principles
Of Economy, And Adapted To The Use Of Private Families. By A Lady. By:
Maria Eliza Rundell
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The New-England Cookery, Or The Art Of Dressing All Kinds
Of Flesh, Fish, And Vegetables, And The Best Modes Of Making Pastes, Puffs,
Pies, Tarts, Puddings, Custards And Preserves, And All Kinds Of Cakes,
From The Imperial Plumb To The Plain Cake. By: Lucy Montpelier Emerson
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The New England Economical Housekeeper, and Family Receipt
Book. By: Esther Allen Howland
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The Oriental Cook Book; Wholesome, Dainty, and Economical
Dishes of the Orient, Especially Adapted to American Tastes and Methods
of Preparation. By: Ardashes Hagop Keoleian
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Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving. A Treatise Containing
Practical Instructions in Cooking; in the Combination and Serving of Dishes;
and in the Fashionable Modes of Entertaining at Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.
By: Mary F. Henderson
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The Practical Housekeeper; A Cyclopædia Of Domestic
Economy... Comprising Five Thousand Practical Receipts And Maxims. Illustrated
With Five Hundred Wood Engravings. Edited by Mrs. Ellet... By: Elizabeth
Fries Ellet
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Practical Sanitary and Economic Cooking Adapted to Persons
of Moderate and Small Means. By: Mary W. Hinman Abel
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Presbyterian Cook Book, Compiled By The Ladies Of The First
Presbyterian Church, Dayton, Ohio. By: First Presbyterian Church
of Dayton, Ohio.
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Science In The Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances
and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of
the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable,
and Wholesome Recipes. By: E. E. Kellogg
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The Settlement Cook Book: Containing Many Recipes Used In
Settlement Cooking Classes, The Milwaukee Public School Cooking Centers
And Gathered From Various Other Reliable Sources / Compiled By Mrs. Simon
Kander. By: Mrs. Simon Kander
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Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats.
By: Eliza Leslie
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Fullständigaste Svensk-Amerikansk Kokbok " Swedish-English
Cookbook "
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The Times Cook Book, No. 2:957 Cooking and Other Recipes…/By
California Women; brought Out by the 1905 Series of Prize Recipe Contests
in the Los Angeles Times. By: The Los Angeles Times
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The Virginia Housewife, Or, Methodical Cook. By: Mary Randolph
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Washington Women's Cook Book. By: Linda Deziah Jennings
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What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, soups,
pickles, preserves, ect. … By: Abby Fisher
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White House Cook Book: A Selection Of Choice Recipes Original
And Selected, During A Period Of Forty Years' Practical Housekeeping. By:
F.L. Gillette
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With A Saucepan Over The Sea; Quaint And Delicious Recipes
From The Kitchens Of Foreign Countries, Selected And Comp. By Adelaide
Keen.
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The Woman Suffrage Cook Book: Containing Thoroughly Tested
and Reliable Recipes for Cooking, Directions for the Care of the Sick,
and Practical Suggestions. By: Mrs. Hattie A. Burr
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The Young House-Keeper: or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery.
By: William Andrus Alcott
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Zuni Breadstuff By: Frank Hamilton Cushing
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SPANISH / CATALAN
/ANDALUSIAN
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Manual
de mujeres en el cual se contienen muchas y diversas recetas muy buenas.
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Manual
de mugeres en el qual se contienen muchas y diversas reçeutas
muy buenas, Palatine Library of Parma (Italy) (Manual of Women in which
is contained many and diverse very good recipes 16th century Spain)
Nola, Rupert de , Libre
de doctrina per a ben servir, de tallar y del art de coch ... : [transcripció].
Nota: Edició digital basada en l´edició de Barcelona,
Carles Amorós, 1520. Edició facsimilar, Borriana, Ediciones
Histórico Artísticas, 1988. - transcription in Catalan. To
use this site, click inici to go to the begining; click enrera to go back;
click endavant to go forward; enter a page number in anar_a, then click
to jump to that page.
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Libre
del Coch, 1529, by Ruperto de Nola, English translation by Robin
Carroll-Mann.
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"Libre
de totes maneres de confits". Un tratado manual cuatrocentista de arte
de dulcería. In: Boletín de la Real Academia de Buenas Letras
de Barcelona 19 (1946) 97-134. Luis Faraudo de Saint-Germain (ed.)
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An
Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook of the 13th Century Translated by Charles
Perry.
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Libro
del Arte de Cozina, 1607 - partial
PORTUGUESE
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Um
tratado da cozinha portuguesa do século XV - a translation into
Modern Portuguese with major changes both in vocabulary and syntax.
See also "Livro de Cozinha da Infanta D. Maria. Códice Português
I.E.33. da Biblioteca Nacional de Nápoles." Prólogo, Leitura,
Notas aos textos, Glossário e Índices de Giacinto Manuppella.
Lisboa 1987. (first ed. 1968.)
ITALIAN
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Brieve
racconto di tutte le radici, di tutte l'erbe e di tutti i frutti che crudi
o cotti in italia si mangiano, Castelvetro, 1614.
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A
dietetic text in the tradition of the School of Salerno (Latin Original
with modern Italian translation and introductory texts) Piero Cantalupo:
Un trattatello medioevale salernitano sull'alimentazione: il "De flore
dietarum".
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Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont - In
Italian, French & Latin - once on this site, search for "Alessio" -
One can get the texts as (large) Tiff- or PDF-files. Partial facsimile
& English page here.
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A
tavola nel Trecento ricette tratte da un manoscritto anonimo
toscano del XIV secolo
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Anonimo
Toscano, Libro della cocina (Ms. late 14th or early 15th c.) -- Text
based on: E. Faccioli, Arte della cucina, Milano 1966, vol. I, p. 21-57.
New
English
translation by Vittoria Aureli.
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Libro di cucina/ Libro per cuoco (14th/15th c.) Anonimo Veneziano
-- translation
-- Louise Smithson [Transcription.]
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Maestro Martino: Libro
de arte coquinaria (sec. XV) in Italian. Webbed by Valeria Romanelli.
-- A new printed English version by Jeremy Parzen is available here.
ARABIC
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Fadalat
al khiwan fi tayybat et-ta'am Wa-I-alwan byIbn Razin at-Tugibi, 13th
c, partial.
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Selección
de recetas de la Fadalat Al-Jiwan. "Recetas reproducidas de la
obra: Fernando de la Granja Santamaría. La cocina arabigoandaluza
según un manuscrito inédito. Tesis doctoral. Madrid, Facultad
de Filosofía y Letras, 1960. Setrata del manuscrito llamado: Fedalat
Al-Jiwan fi tayyibat al-ta'am wa-l-alwan (Relieves de la mesa, sobre manjares
y guisos). Su autor es el murciano Abu l-Hasan 'Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abí
l-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abí Bakr ibn Razin al-Tuyibi al-Andalusí
y fué escrita probablemente entre 1228 y 1243)."
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Pages from KITAB
AL-TABIKH by Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq , Edited by Kaj Öhrnberg
and Sahban Mroueh
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ROMANIAN
A Translation of a seventeenth century Romanian cookbook, entitled "The
Book where I write dishes of fish, crayfish, oysters, snails, vegetables,
salads and other dishes for fast and non-fast days. In their serving order."
The manuscript, originally written in Slavonic script, was translated to
the modern roman alphabet by Ioana Constantinescu and published in a book
called "O lume intr-o carte de bucate: Manuscris din epoca brancoveneasca"
by the Romanian Cultural Foundation Editions (ISBN 9735770903). Go to http://www.florilegium.org/,
click on Food - Manuscripts, Then on Romanian Cookbook.
Menus
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A Medieval
Feast Menu for the banquet given for the English king in 1397, shortly
after King Richard II's marriage to Isabella of France in1396. Taken
From "Curye on Inglysch" English Culinary Manuscripts of the Fourteenth
Century, edited by Constance B. Hieatt and Sharon Butler Early English
Text Society, Oxford University Press, London, 1985. English translation
(c) Garay. From MS Cosin V. III. ll (C) p.39.
Other Online Sources:
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Tacuinum Sanitatis
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Illuminations and Text from Medieval Health Handbooks showing foods and
how they are best prepared.
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A brief note about Chinese
food.
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Leeds
University Library -- Cookery Special Collection.
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Matthias Wernhard: Die
syrischen Fragmente des Rufus von Ephesos. Edition, Übersetzung,
Kommentar. München 1997. (The Syriac fragments of Rufus of Ephesos)
-- Rufus (c. 80-150) was a medical doctor and author; among other things,
he has written on dietetics. However, the text of his 'Peri Diaitas' seems
to be lost, only parts are extant in later compilations. Here are some
of them. The file includes introduction, edition and translation into German,
together with parallels from Greek and Arabic texts, commentary, references.
Large Pdf file.
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Selected excerpts from
French cookbooks of the 1700s and 1800s.
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Jacobus Bifrons [Jachiam Bifrun]:
Epistola
de caseis et operibus lactariis et modo quo in Rhæticis regionibus
et alpibus parantur, 1556
(Brief an Conrad Gesner über die Käseherstellung und die
Milchverarbeitung in der Schweiz 1556.
A letter to Conrad Gesner about cheesemaking and dairy products in
Switzerland, 1556.) - In Latin
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C. PLINII SECVNDI OPERA
Naturalis Historia - In Latin
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M. TERENTIVS VARRO - RERUM
RUSTICARUM DE AGRI CULTURA
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Regimen
Sanitatis Salerni
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THE COMPLEAT ANGLER
by Isaac Walton
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THE TREATISE
OF FISHING WITH AN ANGLE , c. 1496
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Medieval
Sourcebook: The Assizes of Bread, Beer, & Lucrum Pistoris
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The Book of Kervynge,
1513
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Karoli
Magni capitularia - Chapter LXX is about plants and trees Charlemagne
had in his estates.
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In
The historie of fovre-footed beastes ... : Collected out of all the
volumes of Conradvs Gesner, and all other writers to this present day.
London: Printed by W. Iaggard, 1607. Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?
[Selections -- Front matter; from first book].
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"Briefe
and true report of the new found land of Virginia." Latin.
Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621. Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et
incolarum ritibus Virgini : nuper admodum ab Anglis, qui à Dn. Richardo
Greinvile equestris ordinis viro eò in coloniam anno M.D. LXXXV.
deducti sunt invent, sumtus faciente Dn. VValtero Raleigh equestris ordi.
Francoforti ad Moenum : Typis Ioannis Wecheli, sumtibus vero Theodori de
Bry, [1590] MDXC.
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Harrison's Description of England
in Shakespere's Youth (1575) by William Harrison edited by
Frederick Furnivall (1877)
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Chocolate: or, An Indian
Drinke. - Excerpts from a 1652 book.
GREWE Digital
Library - Numerous works of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries,
shown in facsimile as scanned image files, some of which are listed here
separately.
Alonso de Herrera, Gabriel. Agricvltvra
general : qve trata de la labranza del campo, y svs particvlaridades,
crianza de animales, propiedades de las plantas que en ella se contienen
y virtudes prouechosas à la salud humana. En Madaid [sic] : por
Carlos Sanchez : a costa de Antonio de Ribero ..., 1645.
Lemery, Nicolas. Modern
curiosities of art & nature. London : printed for Matthew Gilliflower
... and James Partridge ..., 1685.
Cervio, Vincenzo. Il
Trinciante di M. Vincenzo Cervio : ampliato et a perfettione ridotto
dal Caualier Reale Fusoritto da Narni... In Roma : ad istanza di Giulio
Burchioni : nella stampa del Gabbia, 1593 .
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Brewing Books Online
Online Glossary Project
of
historical Culinary & Brewing Terms
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