Useful links to books online from the past

Cooking

• Receipts of Pastry and Cookery For the Use of his Scholars - Ed. Kidder. 18th century. Recipe book, with a printed title page and manuscript collection of recipes.

• A New System of Domestic Cookery - By Maria Eliza Rundell Boston: W. Andrews, 1807.

• The New-England Cookery - By Lucy Emerson Montpelier, VT: Printed for Josiah Parks, 1808.

• The New England Economical Housekeeper - The New England Economical Housekeeper, and Family Receipt Book. Cincinatti: H.W. Derby, 1845.

• Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving - By Mary Newton Foote Henderson, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877.

• The Practical Housekeeper; A Cyclopaedia of Domestic Economy.By Elizabeth Fries Ellet
  New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1857.
• Practical Sanitary and Economic Cooking Adapted to Persons of Moderate and Small Means.
  American Public Health Association, 1890.
• Presbyterian Cook Book, Compiled By The Ladies Of The First Presbyterian Church, Dayton, Ohio. Dayton, Ohio: Oliver Crook, c1873.
• Science in the Kitchen. A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes.
  Chicago: Modern Medicine Publishing Co., 1893.

  
   

• Seventy-five Receipts For Pastry, Cakes, And Sweetmeats. By Miss Leslie. Boston, Mass.: Munroe and Francis, 1832.
• The Virginia Housewife: or, Methodical Cook By Mary Randolph Baltimore: Plaskitt, Fite, 1838
• White House Cook Book: A Selection of Choice Recipes Original and Selected, During a Period of Forty Years' Practical Housekeeping. Chicago: R.S. Peale & Co., 1887.
• The Young House-keeper Thoughts on Food and Cookery Boston: Waite, Pierce & Co., 1846, c. 1838.

• Manuscript Cookbook of D. Petre, 1705 Manuscript recipe book, 1705, containing medical and cooking recipes. Recipes for cooking are written from back to front with book reversed. It contains a table of contents for each section. A number of recipes are attributed to named individuals.

• A Queens Delight 1671. The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying. As also, A right Knowledge of making Perfumes, and Distilling the most Excellent Waters. .Link  to images of the book.