Historic Cookbooks on line

About 650 historic cookbooks [mostly in English], and e-texted, are listed on this web page by date and seperate pages by author. Many have been transcribed on several sites, some on as many as four. I have linked only one site per title unless the editions or years are different, such as Mary Randolph's Virginia Housewife [1838 and 1860]. Several excellent historic cookbook collections are listed below. HEARTH, Feeding America, Duke Collection, Project Gutenberg, MoA, Google books and others have search programs allowing the researcher to query by recipe name and by ingredient.
Duke University's Advertising books online have changed their URLs, so until I get time to change them all, when you are redirected to their main page, type in the author or title.

Cookbook collections online

Feeding America: the Historic American Cookbook. [1798-1922] 76 books
Advertising Cookbooks. Duke University. [1878-1929] 82 books
Library of Congress. Rare Book Room. Gastronomy Books. [1480-1913] 80 books
Internet Archives 407 books
Google books
ChestofBooks.com
UPenn books online - Cookery
Manybooks
Foodsville 144 books
MoA Making of America Books. U Mich.
Project Gutenberg
Szathmary Recipe Pamphlets
Recipe Pamphlets in the Chef Louis Szathmary Collection of Culinary Arts list of holdings, some pic covers
Recipe for Victory: Food and Cooking in Wartime. UWisconsin
British Library. Books for Cooks
Bon appetit! - A Celebration of Canadian Cookbooks
Canadian cookbooks online
University of Adelaide Library, Australia
University of Barcelona. Online books 1541-1769
Gallica. Bibliotheque nationale de France

Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage [Lindahl]
The Medieval & Renaissance Cookery Webring - Gode Cookery
Culinary and Dietetic Texts - Middle Ages to 1800 [Gloning]
Old Culinary & Brewing Documents Online; Cindy Renfrow
Norwegian and medieval cookbooks [Notaker]
Cooking and Food Links SCA
Medieval Cookery. Online Cookbooks
Manuscripts and cookery books in Medieval Europe. Maītre Chiquart
Medievalcooking.com
Medieval and Early Modern Household and Conduct Texts. Prof Martha Carlin links.

Bibliographies

Bibliography of Virginia related cookbooks
New Orleans Creolization of Southern Food Bibliography
Michigan cookbooks online
Cooking in Colonial America, A Bibliography. Gherkins & Tomatoes blog
African Cooking and Food Bibliography. Gherkins & Tomatoes blog
Arab Cooking Bibliography. Gherkins & Tomatoes blog
Bibliography of European Colonial-Era Cookbooks (19th – 20th Cen. generally India & Africa) Gherkins & Tomatoes
Medieval Cookbooks - An Annotated Bibliography
A Cookery Bibliography. The Medieval & Renaissance Cookery Webring

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