Old Cookbooks on-line

[Delmonico]

http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/browse.html

I just found this, what a treasure.

[clehfeldt]

Treasure is right!  Thanks for the URL.
Carlos El Hombre

[Windy City Joe]

This is a great place. I like and will be trying some of the Cooking in Old Creole Days.

[Dutch Limbach]

Thanks for posting Del! I like the way you can search for the cookbooks by Date.

[Delmonico]

Thanks for posting Del! I like the way you can search for the cookbooks by Date.

Yes, I've got some cook books that date to the 1870-1880's, even if you don't use the recipes they are good for research.  You can be real sure if an item shows up in a cook book dated to a certain date, that item was readly availible.

[kflach]

I passed the link on to my wife yesterday (she loves to cook). She looked it up and came back to me with a big thank you. She thinks these are great!

Then, last night she went back to her sewing room (she does that professionally) and brought out some fabric to show me. She offered to make me a vest out of that fabric. She actually got online with me and looked for period-correct patterns.

Thanks Delmonico!

[Ol Gabe]

Ah, the power of "Geeez!"
Best regards and always say "Wow! Thanks! That means a lot to me!"
'Ol Gabe

[kflach]

I did (and it does)!

[Delmonico]

After talking with Silver Creek Slim the other night I realize I failed to mention that a lot of these recipes in them may be hard for some folks to understand since the terms are a bit different at times than modern books.  These may not be all you will run into, but should help, it's based on years of research:

http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php/topic,29848.0.html

[River City John]

Delmonico

Thanks for the info on old time weights and measures translation.
I tried to copy the info to save to a file, but it would not copy. Short of hand copying the entire thread, could you send me copies of the various charts to my <fifthcorps@cox.net>, or make hardcopies and bring them along to the GAF Dept. of Missouri Mini-Muster?

RCJ

"Bad cooking is a crime; it is the cause of dyspepsia, and a host of other evils. A woman convicted of it ought to be arrainged on manslaughter." - Jennie June's American Cookery Book, 1870, p.16

[Delmonico]

They are scans an Jpeg files.  I'll try to get them copied better.

[River City John]

Thanks! You're my favorite Cooky.
Even better for future use, send copies to Dutch, too, and they would make great reference material on our NCOWS website. Send him the link, too. He has a whole section devoted to reference links.

RCJ

[Deadeye Dick]

How about putting them in the Shootist too.
Deadeye Dick

[Delmonico]

OK, I'll get them in a proper order, ran across my referance book and cheated.  That is unless someone can convert the old Brother Word proccessing format on 3.5 dic to a CD that will work in real computors.  I have a bunch of notes I can't get to.

[kflach]

MS Word as a "Recover Text from any file" option in it's "Open" dialog box. That may do the trick. It also has an "All Documents" option.

Of course, you've got to get the documents off that floppy...

[Delmonico]

Of course, you've got to get the documents off that floppy...

That is the problem, it is some odd format.

[kflach]

I'm willing to take a stab at getting the text out of them. I'll pm you my email so you can send me one of the documents and I'll see what I can do. It doesn't hurt to try...

[kflach]

Oh wait a minute - is it the floppy that's in the weird format?

[Delmonico]

Yep.

[River City John]

Not surprising that Delmonico's floppy went all-to-hell years ago.
It happens with age.
(As a matter of fact, many old timers have floppys that are duds don't work.)


RCJ