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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Learn what the Southern woman cooked (the recipes) and how she cooked them in these five old cookbooks. All free.
There are tons--well, not tons, because they're digital--but they're a lot of cookbooks on the Internet Archive. But which ones of them are any good? The blog post referenced below has five cookbooks that have been vetted, apparently, so you'll know that you're getting good recipes and stuff.
http://gardenandgun.com/blog/classic...ks-free-charge.
There's a digital cookbook from some Jewish organization of women in Louisville, Kentucky maybe a hundred years ago or more, that I'm going to dig up one of these days. Had a tab for it in my web browser, but the 'puter crashed on me. |
Just be aware that any Kindle or epub files you download from Internet Archive are not proofread, straight from the OCR and can be somewhat unreadable. Some of them may be found at
Project Gutenberg Cookbook Bookshelf, where they have been proofread and reformatted.
The Virginia Houswife can be found here. You might find that these cookbooks are more of interest to see what sorts of things they were making, but not like modern cookbooks where you get a more precise list of ingredients, times and temperatures. The ingredients used might be something you can only get if you special order it from a specialty butcher. When was the last time you saw a whole calf's head at your supermarket?