Oldrecipebook

If you like old recipes, you've come to the right place. This website is full of some great old fashioned recipes from the oldest cookbooks I could find. Most of the recipes are marked with the date of the cookbook, so you will know what they were using back then to prepare it. If they are not marked they are from my own recipe box. My favorite rec... ipes require few ingredients, but some are so good, it's worth the extra ingredients. Most of the recipes on these pages vary from the 1920's to the 1970's. It just seems they cooked food in simpler ways back then. Who was Fannie Farmer? Her recipe books have been around for years. Even the cookbook I have has been taped together. Which says only one thing, it's been used a lot! The problem that I have had with this cookbook is that many ingredients and utensils are not in use anymore. "Fannie Farmer 1857-1915 American cookbook author and teacher and writer on cookery in Boston. A paralytic stroke prevented her from attending college, and she turned to cooking, at home and at the Boston Cooking School, from which she graduated in 1889. She was director of the school from 1891 until 1902, when she opened Miss Farmer School of Cookery, established to train housewives and nurses, rather than teachers, in cookery. She edited The Boston Cooking School Cook Book (1896), one of the best-known and most popular of American cookbooks " The White House Cookbook I recently came across is so cool. The inside cover says that it was first copyrighted in 1897. The version I have has a copyright of 1922 . The nice thing about this big thick( 609 page) book, along with the recipes, is the cool pictures of the presidents wives. There is a dedication on the inside that says: "To the wives of our Presidents, those noble women who have graced the White House, and whose names and memories are dear to all Americans, the volume is affectionately dedicated by the author." see this page The cookbook was apparently put out by the Karo Corn Syrup Company. The inside page says, Copyrighted, 1927 ...Read More