Old Cookbooks on-line

[Delmonico]

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

I just found this, what a treasure.

['Monterrey' Jack Brass]

Delmonico - Great find! Even better it's all there free to download (transcript or .pdf). I took a gander at some of the titles and am impressed with the selection and number apropos to our era. It's a gold mine of material culture data to be sure mon ami. Now, as with everything, finding the time to study all the possibilities on that site is the issue!

G

[Silver Creek Slim]

Thanks, Del. I've been looking at some.

Slim

[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