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Antique Recipes: VintageCookbook.com’s blog, with antique and vintage recipes from famous and historic cookbooks. Recipes from cook books like Miss Hulling’s Favorite Recipes; Can Greeks Cook; Dining in Chicago by John Drury, 1931; In Pursuit of Flavor by Edna Lewis, 1988; Daily News Cook Book, 1896; Fine Old Dixie Recipes Wood “Mammy” Cover, 1938, First Edition; Purity Cook Book, 1932, 1945; Pastry Cook and Confectioner PastryCook & Confectioners’ Guide, 1892, 1913; Treasury of Great Recipes, 1965; Barbeque’n with Bobby: Righteous, Down-Home Barbeque Recipes by Bobby Seale; Treasury of Great Recipes, 1965; Nine Hundred Successful Recipes, 1923; Pacific Coast Seafood Chef, 1953; Alphabet for Gourmets, M.F.K. Fisher, 1949; Louise’s Florida Cook Book, 1968, 1978; Mama Mia Italian Cookbook, 1955; Home Dissertations: An Offering to the Household, 1886; County Recipes of Old England, 1929; Recipes My Friends’ and My Own, 1904; One Thousand Successful Recipes, 1926; Love Time & Butter, 1971; Fashions in Foods in Beverly Hills, 1929; Here Let Us Feast: A Book of Banquets, M.F.K. Fisher, 19Home Dissertations: An Offering to the Household, 1886; County Recipes of Old England, 1929; Recipes My Friends’ and My Own, 1904; One Thousand Successful Recipes, 1926; Love Time & Butter, 1971; Fashions in Foods in Beverly Hills, 1929; Here Let Us Feast: A Book of Banquets, M.F.K. Fisher, 1946; Epicurean, 1894, 1920; Delmonico’s: A Century of Splendor, 1967; International Cook Book, Filippini, 1906, 1911; Fine Old Dixie Recipes with a wood “Mammy” cover; Catering for Special Occasions, 1911; Old Waldorf Bar Days, 1931, First Edition, First Printing; Old Mr. Boston, 1935; Just Cocktails, 1939; Les Diners de Gala by Salvador Dali, 1973; A La Rector, 1933; Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, 1954; Warren Cook-Book, 1920; 200 Years of New Orleans Cooking, 1931; Famous Recipes Famous People, 1940; Miss Parloa’s Kitchen Companion, 1887; Mrs. Lincoln’s Boston Cook Book, 1884, 1894; Fashions in Foods in Beverly Hills, 1929; Sook’s Cook Book: Memories and Traditional Receipts from Deep South; Family Recipes: Secrets of Maude Landry’s Kitchen; Great 20th Century Cook Book: Three Meals a Day, 1902; Southern Cooking, 1928; Feeding the Lions: An Algonquin Cookbook, 1942; Housekeeping in the Blue Grass, 1874; Everybody’s Cook Book, 1924, 1937; Twig Cook Book, 1900s; Every-Day Cook-Book, 1886; What to Have for Dinner, Fannie Farmer, 1905; Mexican Cookbook, Fergusson, 1945; Louis’ Salads & Chafing Dishes, 1906, First Edition; Williamsburg Art of Cookery, Leather, 1938; Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners, 1913, 1915; Cooking A La Ritz Cooking A La Ritz, 1941, Louis Diat; New Annie Dennis Cook Book, 1905; Savouries a la Mode by Harriet de Salis, 1903; Dee-Licious Recipes, 1932; Swiss Bakery and Confectionery, 1949; Gay Cookbook, 1965; Dining in Chicago by John Drury, 1931; Feeding the Lions: An Algonquin Cookbook, 1942; Columbia Cook Book 1895 First Edition; Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, 1954; Mrs. Lincoln’s Boston Cook Book, 1884, 1892; Warren Cook-Book, 1923, Sixth Edition; Mrs. Rorer’s Cook Book, First Edition, 1886; Sunset’s Barbecue Book, 1938, 1949; Calorie Cook Book, 1923; A Cookbook for Booksellers, 1965; Choice Recipes, 1914; Connecticut Cookbook, 1944; Food and Cookery, 1917; Physical Culture Cook Book, 1929; Country Kitchen Cook Book, 1934; Larkin Housewives’ Cook Book, 1923; Practical Dietetics, 1923; America’s Cook Book, New York Herald Tribune, 1937, 1946; Mrs. Harding’s Twentieth Century Cook Book, 1921; From Manna to Mousse, 1969; Good Housekeeping Everyday Cook Book, 1903; Nine Hundred Successful Recipes, 1923; Mama Mia Italian Cookbook, 1955; Popular Lithuanian Recipes, 1955, 1974; Love and Knishes, 1957; Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea, Marion Harland, 1875, 1886; Any One Can Bake, 1929, Fine Old Dixie Recipes with a wood “Mammy” cover; Edgewater Beach Hotel Book Salads, Culinary Gleanings, 1938, Marion Harland’s Cook Book, Standard Book Recipes Housewife’s Guide, Little Cook Book for Little Girl, 1905, Ellington Cook Book, 1916; Das Ist Zucker That’s Sugar; Art of Cooking Omelettes, 1963; Burke’s Complete Cocktail & Drinking Recipes with Recipes for Food Bits for the Cocktail Hour, 1934, 1936; Williamsburg Art of Cookery, 1938; Fireless Cook Book, 1911; Mrs. Allen on Cooking, Menus, Service, 1926; Escoffier, 1969, A Guide to the Fine Art of Cookery; Whole-Family Cook Book, 1931; Kitchen Ranging, 1929; Unusual Soups: Hot & Cold Soups for All Occasions, 1981; Buckeye Cookery, 1880, 1883; Common Sense in the Kitchen, 1870; Le Cookbook: Favorite Recipes French American Residents of Paris, 1978; How to Cook a Wolf, 1942, 1944; Good Housekeeping, 1944; Mary Ronald’s Century Cook Book, 1885, 1911; Mrs. Lincoln’s Cook Book, 1884, 1819; Jersey Shore Cooks and Artists, 1958; the Home Cook Book, 1877; Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing Dish Dainties, 1899, 1920; Daily News Cook Book, 1896; Out of Kentucky Kitchens, 1949; Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery, 1871; The Great 20th Century Cook Book: Three Meals a Day, 1902; Hotel St. Francis Cook Book, 1919; Every-Day Cook-Book, 1886 First Edition, First Printing; Key to the Pantry: Choice, Tried Recipes, 1907; Nero Wolfe Cook Book, 1973; Columbia Cook Book, 1895; Hollywood Glamour Cook Book by Mariposa, 1940; New Orleans Recipes Used in the South for more than 200 Years; Catering for Special Occasions, Fannie Farmer, 1911; Just for Two Cookbook, Lily Haxworth Wallace, 1942; Gentleman’s Companion or Around the World with Knife Fork & Spoon, 1939, 1946; The Favorite Cook Book, 1894; Mangiamo Let’s Eat, 1970; Cooking a la Ritz, 1941; America Cooks, 1967; M.F.K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf, 1944; Miss Parloa’s New Cook Book, 1881; Carolina Foods, Illustrated by Carew Rice, 1957; Fifty-two Sunday Dinners, 1913, 1915; Can the Greeks Cook, 1950; Palmer House Cook Book, 1933, first edition; Boundary County Cook Book, 1927; Household Science and Arts, 1913; Neighborhood Cook Book, 1912, 1914; Prejean’s Cookbook, 2004; A Salute to Forty-Eight of Our Country’s Best Chefs, 1995; The American Women’s Club Cook Book, 1926; The Blue Book of American Dishes, 1926; A Butler’s Recipe Book, 1719, 1935; The Beloit Cook Book, 1914, 1930; Mrs. Mary Martensen’s Recipes, 1932.

Gourmet’s Potatoes from Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

Gourmet's Potatoes from Alice B. Toklas Cook Book: Another great recipe from the greatest American historical cookbook of all time, Alice B. Toklas Cook Book. You can see the cookbook here: https://www.vintagecookbook.com/product/alice-b-toklas-cook-book-w-dust-jacket/ Alice B. Toklas Cook Book w/ Dust Jacket: The Alice B. Toklas Cook…
Chocolate Mousse from Aromas and Flavors

Chocolate Mousse from Aromas and Flavors of Past and Present by Alice B. Toklas

Chocolate Mousse from Aromas and Flavors of Past and Present by Alice B. Toklas: Here's one great recipe from Alice B. Toklas' second cookbook: Of course we have the cookbook. See it here: https://www.vintagecookbook.com/product/aromas-and-flavours-of-past-and-present-alice-b-toklas-1959/ Aromas and Flavours of Past and Present: A Book of Exquisite…

President’s Pumpkin Pie, Mrs. James’s Recipe from Presidential Cookbook, Helen Nesbitt, 1951

President's Pumpkin Pie, Mrs. James's Recipe from Presidential Cookbook, Helen Nesbitt, 1951: Yes, we have the cookbook.  See it here:  Presidential Cookbook: Feeding the Roosevelts and Their Guests, Henrietta Nesbitt, 1951. Presidential Cookbook: Feeding the Roosevelts and Their Guests, Henrietta Nesbitt, 1951. Hardcover book with…

War Cake Recipe, How to Cook a Wolf, M.F.K. Fisher

War Cake Recipe: Here's an extremely historic recipe from M.F.K. Fisher's How to Cook a Wolf, published in 1942, and republished in M.F.K. Fisher's The Art of Eating: War Cake, a cake to make when resources are tight. It used no eggs! Here's the cookbook:  https://vintagecookbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/How-to-Cook-a-Wolf-1942-1944.-M.-F.-K.-Fisher.-Gift-Quality.jpg…

Mixed Jellies–New Method from Home Queen Cook Book, 1901

Mixed Jellies--New Method from Home Queen Cook Book, 1901: One recipe from the cookbook of the Chicago World's Fair or the World's Colombian Exposition, the Home Queen Cook Book. Of course we have the cookbook. See it here: https://www.vintagecookbook.com/product/home-queen-cook-book-1901-souvenir-cook-book-worlds-columbian-exposition-chicago-worlds-fair/ Home Queen Cook Book, 1901, Souvenir…

200 Years of Charleston Cooking: St. Cecelia Ball

200 Years Charleston Cooking: St. Cecelia Ball: I've said before, 200 Years of Charleston Cooking is my all-time favorite antique cookbook. Here's an excellent example of why it's my favorite. Oyster Stew with Mace recipe along with the charming discussion of the St. Cecelia Ball,…
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Hotel St. Francis Cook Book, 1919

Hotel St. Francis Cook Book, 1919: Some hotel cookbooks, or restaurant cookbooks, or chefs' cookbooks, grow long on the author's memoirs, yet are short on recipes. Not this one! From page one through page 400, all are packed with recipes and menus. There's not a…

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Gun Club Cook Book’s Onion Soup

Gun Club Cook Book's Onion Soup:  Charles Brown's recipe for Onion Soup, from the Gun Club Cook Book, 1930, covers most of two pages and includes one of Leonard Holton's great illustrations. Of course we have the cookbook.  See it here: https://www.vintagecookbook.com/product/gun-club-cook-book-1930/ Gun Club Cook…