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The Virginia House-Wife, 1824.
Mary Randolph was a well-to-do socialite in nineteenth-century Richmond, Virginia, before her husband was pushed out of his government job by his cousin and political rival Thomas Jefferson. Known for her hospitality and prowess in the kitchen, she opened a boarding house to help make ends meet. And toward the end of her life, she poured the sum of her culinary knowledge into this influential cookbook, which contains early recipes for gumbo and cornbread and the first recipe for macaroni and cheese ever published in the United States.

Subject: Mary Randolph 1762- 1828; Godmother to Mrs. Robert E. Lee
The U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial suggests this is the first truly American Cookbook; the first edition was published in 1824. See National Park Service - Museum Management Program for further details regarding Mrs. Randolph as well as her portrait and burial at Arlington National Cemetery.

https://archive.org/details/virginiahousewif00randrich

 

Housekeeping in Old Virginia, 1878.
Marion Fontaine Cabell Tyree, granddaughter of Founding Father and onetime Virginia governor Patrick Henry, assembled this collection of recipes and household tips from 250 prominent families in Virginia and the surrounding states. In addition to chapters on Old Dominion favorites such as buttermilk biscuits and Brunswick stew, this book contains a fascinating collection of remedies including a whiskey-and-cherry-bark cure for jaundice and mysterious “Chill Pills” made with strychnine and arsenic.

https://archive.org/details/housekeepinginol01tyre

 

What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, 1881.
In the years following the Civil War, a thirty-something former slave from Mobile, Alabama, named Abby Fisher migrated west to San Francisco, where she found success as a caterer and cook. Though Fisher was illiterate, friends in California transcribed this collection of her recipes. Alongside the popular dishes of the day are instructions for preparing dozens of pickles and preserves—Fisher’s specialties—and a long list of cakes and pies. This was believed to have been the first cookbook written by an African-American woman until scholars unearthed a short pamphlet published in Paw Paw, Michigan, in 1866. Nonetheless, it was groundbreaking and provides an unmatched look at the foods of the plantation South.

https://archive.org/details/whatmrsfisherkno00fishrich

 

La Cuisine Créole, 1885.
With this foundational text of Creole cooking, an anonymous author (almost universally believed to have been Lafcadio Hearn, a Greek-Irish writer who later made his name reporting from Japan under the pen name Koizumi Yakumo) captured a swirl of dishes from Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean, Africa, and Louisiana just as they began to coalesce into the colorful cuisine that we recognize today. Chefs and housewives from all over New Orleans contributed their favorite recipes, throwing “Gombo file,” “Jambolaya,” and “Bouille-abaisse” into a national pot then mostly unseasoned by those Creole standards.

https://archive.org/details/lacuisinecreolec00hearrich

 

The Unrivalled Cook-Book and Housekeeper’s Guide, 1885.
The mysterious “Mrs. Washington” chose her pseudonym, she writes in the introduction to her cookbook, in honor of the father of our country. But though her identity may be vague, the book is anything but. Stocked with recipes adapted from older European texts and the archives of an anonymous New Orleans family, it contains careful instructions for preparing everything from Russian beet soup to a classic bisque à la Creole flavored with “a peck of fat crawfish.”

https://archive.org/details/unrivalledcookb00washgoog

 

Here are an additional 50 *plus* old cookbooks that sit online awaiting only that you rediscover them and make use.

ENJOY

Vintage Cookbooks

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Thanks Ed, sufficient to carry me through my life time. My biggest desire right now are Thai recipes, lots on the internet, and also Vietnamese recipes.

 

While there are a ton of people that refer to all asian food as *chineee* I too favor Thai

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Here Pat.. grab the app and use your smart phone make the correct choices of recipe out of over 130,000 free ones !

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andromo.dev10290.app314448&hl=zu

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