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Good Books about Cooking and Homemaking in the Nineteenth Century 
A Prairie Kitchen: Recipes, Poems and Colorful Stories from the Prairie Farmer Magazine, 1841-1900 Developing recipes and sharing the results has been a lifelong vocation for Rae Katherine Eighmey. Today her kitchen library has thousands of recipes from 19th and 20th century cookbooks and pioneers' journals and magazines. It is her goal to make them easy for today's cooks to make in their own kitchens, and she has adapted hundreds of them for modern cooking methods. She says translating these recipes is part detective story, part chemistry and part old-fashioned cooking skill. Please go to Easy Recipes for 100 Year Old Recipes! Food on the Frontier: Minnesota Cooking from 1850 to 1900 with Selected Recipes (Publications of the Minnesota Historical Society) A unique cookbook that combines lively social history with mouth-watering recipes from "the good old days." Gathering her data from old cookbooks, household guides, letters, diaries, and newspapers, the author pieces together a fascinating account of how the pioneer homemaker played a vital role during Minnesota's frontier years. More than 275 recipes included. The Robert E. Lee Family Cooking and Housekeeping Book Part cookbook, part culinary history, part family history, this book is an engaging and enlightening glimpse into the household of a well-to-do, mid-nineteenth-century Virginia family. Seeking to learn more about her ancestors' daily lives, Anne Zimmer, great-granddaughter of Robert E. and Mary Lee, turned to her great-grandmother's small, now shabby notebook. Packed with recipes, shopping lists, and other domestic jottings, the notebook opened an intimate window onto an earlier way of life. With recipes for breads, cakes, puddings, sweets, soups, main dishes, vegetables, drinks, and home remedies, The Robert E. Lee Family Cooking and Housekeeping Book will serve as a ready reference on traditional American cookery. For each entry, the author provides the original recipe, helpful notes on the ingredients and techniques employed, and instructions--based on careful kitchen testing--for adapting the recipe in the modern kitchen. Peppered throughout with family stories and illustrated with photographs from the Lee family and other archives, the book is both an informative investigation of southern foodways and a fascinating look at one family's household history.  The American Family Home, 1800-1960 In the nineteenth century, architects and family reformers launched promotional campaigns portraying houses no longer as simply physical structures in which families lived but as emblems for family cohesiveness and identity. Clark explains why, despite the fear of standardization and homogenization, the middle class has persisted in viewing the single family home as the main symbol of independence as as the distinguishing sign of having achieved middle-class status. "Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management" was and is hugely popular. First published in 1861, nearly two million copies were sold by 1868. "Know Your Onions or Mrs Beeton's Hinterland" contains recipes and household hints from books and magazines published from about 1820 to the 1860s; books and magazines that may have influenced Mrs Beeton. Some of the recipes and household hints are from Samuel Beeton's "Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine" and may well have been contributed by Mrs Beeton herself. "Know Your Onions or Mrs Beeton's Hinterland" is a treasure trove jam-packed with old recipes and household hints, mostly from the early to mid nineteenth century. In this book you will come across such delights as: how to cook and prepare a boar's head (not for the squeamish!); how to pacify a cross baby; how to restore rancid butter by using animal charcoal; a cure for baldness; and much, much more. If you enjoy cookery books, then you will love this book. Know Your Onions or Mrs Beeton's Hinterland: A Nineteenth Century Cookery and Household Miscellany 
Food and Recipes of the Westward Expansion Combines the story of the pioneers with recipes and the history of food from the opening and development of the American West. For Children ages 4 thru 8 Back to Home Page Email Me! Copyright 1999-2011 Privacy Policy Food Fun and Facts has over 900 pages. Use the Menu, or for a quick Search, use the Site Search Bar. Enjoy! There's a Spirit in the Kitchen: Recipes and Reflections of a 19th-Century Ghost Amy Kitchener Speaks to America This is the most unusual cookbook in the world: a collection of delicious recipes and practical kitchen tips as dictated by the spirit of a woman who died over 100 years ago. Amy Kitchener, patriot, housewife, and spirit, communicated the manuscript to the authors in the early 1970s, producing a book full of useful, tasty 19th-century foods and tips as appropriate today as they were then Allergy Recipes Army Air Corp Photos WWII Baking Tips Beverages Book Care and Repair Children's Recipes Chinese New Year Christmas Entertaining Recipes Cookbook Reviews Cooking and Food Links Cooking for a Large Group Cooking Tips Creative Holiday CookingCulinary History Easter Information and Recipes Easy Recipes Entertaining Tips and Recipes Fun with Food Food Trivia Free Stuff Fun with Food Halloween Fun Herbal Remedies Herbs and Spices Household Hints Kids Crafts and Recipes Kids Links Memorial Day Information Nineteenth Century American Women Nineteenth Century Advertising Nutrition Parenting Tips Pet Goodies for Dogs, Cats and Birds Recipes and Good Books Homemaking Tips from the 1800's Sewing Tips Thanksgiving Recipes Wine and Beer Information Top 100 Cooking Sites |