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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
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? |
I am trying to remember which grocery store sells them here. I know one did. So it has been recently. On the calf head.