Cooking & Food
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses (Version 2)
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Maurice Grenville Kains
Culinary Herbs may be regarded as the secret to preparing good food from antiquity to the the height of culinary art. Maurice Grenville Kain…
Culture and Cooking; Or, Art in the Kitchen
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Catherine Owen
This is not a cookery book. It makes no attempt to replace a good one; it is rather an effort to fill up the gap between you and your househ…
The Story of a Loaf of Bread
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Thomas Barlow Wood
According to the author in the preface, he has "ventured to write this little book with some diffidence, for it deals with farming, mil…
Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery
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Arthur Gay Payne
This is a little cookbook of vegetarian recipes, which were only slowly gaining popularity in England at the time of its publication in 1891…
Billy in Bunbury
Read by Patti Cunningham
Royal Baking Powder Company
This 1924 poem/recipe book, designed as promotional material for the Royal Baking Powder Company, is set in the Oz community of Bunbury. Lit…
Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery
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Marion Harland
This is a practical guide to running a household in 1883. Marion Harland not only walks us through a number of important topics such as how …
Ketchup
Read by Peter Yearsley
A. W. Bitting
The Bittings have written a number of books on canning and home preparation of food. This short volume includes a brief description of the p…
Rhymed Receipts for Any Occasion
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Imogen Clark
In addition to being amusing, recipes written in a poetic form were easy to remember and used as learning tools for the young housekeeper. M…