18 books like Miss Beecher's domestic receipt book

What to read after Miss Beecher's domestic receipt book — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Virginia house-wife Mary Randolph · 1824 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The Virginia house-wife: method is the soul of management, Mary Randolph. Revised version of http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/2094 . The Virginia house-wife Randolph, Mary, 1762-1828 225 p. ; 18 cm. Printed by Davis and Force Wahington 1824 Shares: American Cookery, Home economics, American Cooking, Cookery

Frugal housewife Lydia Maria Child · 1829 · ★ 3.4 · 137p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Married at 25 to a charming dreamer whose irresponsible behavior quickly depleted their meager earnings, Mrs. Childs compiled this book (based, very likely, on personal experience) for women of less than moderate means. Shares: Canning and preserving, Formulas, American Cookery, Home economics

Twenty lessons in domestic science Marian Cole Fisher · 1916 · 108p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Divided into twenty lessons, Marian Cole Fisher's 1916 work provides a home study guide on the characteristics and uses of different food categories. Whether meat, vegetable, cheese or egg, each section teaches the home student how to handle the foods in question and provides recipes. Housekeeping do's and don'ts as well as helpful hints are also included. Shares: American Cookery, Home economics, American Cooking, Cookery

Boston Cooking-School cook book Fannie Merritt Farmer · 1896 · ★ 3.9 · 807p · ≈ 26h · Demanding Basic American cookbook, specializing in New England recipes. Shares: American Cookery, American Cooking, Cookery, Cooking

Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book Betty Crocker · 1950 · ★ 4.2 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Moderate It's the book that started it all, the well-loved edition that first bought Betty Crocker cookbooks into American homes and hearts. Published in 1950, this ground-breaking title made cooking easy, it made cooking appealing, and best of all, it made cooking fun. Packed full of practical tips, useful hints, and lavish color photography, this was the book that shaped cooking for generations, the… Shares: American Cookery, American Cooking, Cookery, Cooking

Housekeeping in old Virginia Marion Cabell Tyree · 1877 · 528p · ≈ 17h · Challenging This book celebrates the cooking and culinary traditions of Virginia. It provides recipes for nearly every conceivable Southern edible and even features an entire chapter on Gumbo. Shares: American Cookery, American Cooking, Cookery, Cooking

The James Beard cookbook James Beard · 1959 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Moderate The edition is a hard back cover that is blue with white and black lettering that refers to being edited with illustrations by E.P. Dutton in 1970. Shares: American Cookery, American Cooking, Cookery, Cooking

The Presidential cook book Hugo Ziemann · 1800 · 440p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Initially published in 1887, The Original White House Cook Book is a cooking compendium penned by F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann. The book is comprised of recipes, cooking techniques, etiquette instruction, household care, and cleanliness tips used in the White House. This historic book includes recipes by the first ladies Martha Washington, Mary Todd Lincoln, and many others, as well as… Shares: American Cookery, American Cooking, Cookery, Cooking

Gourmet's guide to New Orleans Natalie Vivian Scott · 1933 · 116p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Shares: American Cookery, American Cooking, Cookery, Cooking

The American woman's cook book Delineator Home Institute. · 1938 · 818p · ≈ 27h · Challenging Shares: American Cookery, American Cooking, Cookery, Cooking

The good housekeeper Sarah Josepha Hale · 1839 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Mrs. Hale's New Cook Book was written by one of the most well-known and prolific authors of the day. Sarah Josepha Hale sought to combine two of the most important trends in mid-19th century American culture: healthy living through a simple, hearty diet and frugality.    Throughout the extensive work, Hale also promotes the importance of the role of housekeeping as the way "to make… Shares: Formulas, Home economics, American Cooking, Cookery

The improved housewife, or, Book of receipts Webster, A. L. Mrs · 1844 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares: Formulas, Home economics, American Cooking, Cooking

Food for the family Jennie S. Wilmot · 1938 · 741p · ≈ 24h · Challenging 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds 5. John Donne - The Good-Morrow 6. K.Gibran - Love One Another 7. Robert Browning - Meeting At Night 8. E.Dickinson - My River 9. P.B. Shelley - Love's Philosophy 10. Alfred Tennyson - Maud 11. E.A. Poe -… Shares: American Cookery, American Cooking, Cookery, Cooking

Mrs. Putnam's receipt book and young housekeeper's assistant Putnam, E. Mrs · 1852 · 228p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares: Home economics, American Cooking, Cooking

Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus Rufus Estes · 1911 · 151p · ≈ 5h · Challenging An illustrated collection of nearly 600 recipes offering instructions for preparing such standard fare as fried chicken, beef roast, and glazed carrots and more specifically, among them Creole-style chicken gumbo, chestnut stuffing with truffles, cherry dumplings, and Southern-style waffles. Shares: American Cookery, American Cooking, Cooking

A new system of domestic cookery Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell · 1807 · 348p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Excerpt: ?As the directions which follow were intended for the conduct of the families of the authoress?s own daughters, and for the arrangement of their table, so as to unite a good figure with proper economy, she has avoided all excessive luxury, such as essence of ham, and that wasteful expenditure of large quantities of meat for gravy, which so greatly contributes to keep up the price, and is… Shares: Formulas, Home economics, American Cooking, Cooking

The New England economical housekeeper and family receipt book E. A. Howland · 1844 · 108p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Mrs. Howland's New England Economical Housekeeper, and Family Receipt Book is a regional cookbook with strong emphasis on thrift and self-reliance in the home, common themes in early American cookbooks that also reflected her New England heritage. Over 220 classic New England recipes, simple and well written compared with many contemporary cookbooks, are included. It's interesting to note that… Shares: Formulas, American Cookery, Home economics, American Cooking

The New Household Receipt Book Sarah Josepha Hale · 1853 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million is one of the many works written by Sarah Hale, an influential American woman, writer of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and editor of periodicals such as Goedy's Lady's Book. Shares: Formulas, Home economics, American Cooking, Cooking

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