Cookbooks Digital Library

Cookbooks in this collection provide historians and researchers with a close-up view of domestic life in America. Some resemble cookbooks as we know them today, with recipes (then called “receipts”) that include ingredients and instructions. Others cover non-cooking, yet essential, household topics (e.g., purifying water or feeding infants) as well as directions for making and administering health remedies).

Books for Cooks: Highlights from the AAS Cookbook Collection presents thematic introductions describing a few select cookbook titles from the over one hundred cookbooks made available below.

Title	Publication Date	Catalog Record	Digital Copy
The compleat housewife	1742	Description	View images
The frugal housewife, or Complete woman cook	1772	Description	View images
The new art of cookery, according to the present practice	1792	Description	View images
One thousand valuable secrets, in the elegant and useful arts	1795	Description	View images
American cookery	1796	Description	View images
Dairying exemplified, or The business of cheese-making	1796	Description	View images
New American cookery, or Female companion	1805	Description	View images
The practical distiller	1809	Description	View images
Cottage economy	1824	Description	View images
The American vine-dresser's guide	1826	Description	View images
The house servant's directory, or A monitor for private families	1827	Description	View images
The French cook	1828	Description	View images
The modern family receipt book	1828	Description	View images
The Virginia house-wife, or Methodical cook	1828	Description	View images
Apician morsels	1829	Description	View images
The frugal housewife	1829	Description	View images
Mackenzie's Five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts	1829	Description	View images
Modern domestic cookery, and useful receipt book	1829	Description	View images
The Cook not mad, or Rational cookery	1830	Description	View images
The cook's oracle; and housekeeper's manual	1830	Description	View images
The Housekeeper's manual, or Complete housewife	1831	Description	View images
Domestic French cookery	1832	Description	View images
The cook's own book, and housekeeper's register	1833	Description	View images
The intellectual house-keeper	1835	Description	View images
The new whole art of confectionary	1835	Description	View images
Seventy-five receipts for pastry, cakes, and sweetmeats	1835	Description	View images
The New England cook book	1836	Description	View images
The art of dining	1837	Description	View images
Directions for cookery	1837	Description	View images
A treatise on bread, and bread-making	1837	Description	View images
Vegetable diet	1838	Description	View images
The hand-book of carving	1840	Description	View images
The Housekeeper's almanac, or, The young wife's oracle! for 1840!	1840	Description	View images
The kitchen directory and American housewife	1841	Description	View images
Total abstinence cookery	1841	Description	View images
Every body's cook and receipt book	1842	Description	View images
The complete cook	1843	Description	View images
The New England economical housekeeper	1844	Description	View images
Modern cookery, in all its branches	1845	Description	View images
The complete confectioner, pastry-cook, and baker	1846	Description	View images
Miss Beecher's domestic receipt book	1846	Description	View images
The young housekeeper	1846	Description	View images
The American family keepsake	1848	Description	View images
The people's manual	1848	Description	View images
The Cook book of rare and valuable recipes	1850	Description	View images
The Carolina housewife : or, House and home	1851	Description	View images
The house-keeper's guide and Indian doctor	1852	Description	View images
The national cook book	1853	Description	View images
The pantropheon or, History of food, and its preparation	1853	Description	View images
Cook and confectioner. The complete cook	1854	Description	View images
The physiology of taste, or, Transcendental gastronomy	1854	Description	View images
Every lady's cook book	1856	Description	View images
Christianity in the kitchen	1857	Description	View images
The great western cook book, or Table receipts	1857	Description	View images
Miss Leslie's new cookery book	1857	Description	View images
Mrs. Hale's new cook book	1859	Description	View images
The Canadian housewife's manual of cookery	1861	Description	View images
Directions for cooking by troops, in camp and hospital	1861	Description	View images
How to mix drinks	1862	Description	View images
Confederate receipt book	1863	Description	View images
Excelsior cook book, and housekeeper's aid	1863	Description	View images
The new hydropathic cook-book	1863	Description	View images
Science in the kitchen	1863	Description	View images
Nouvelle cuisiniere Canadienne	1865	Description	View images
Tit-bits, or, How to prepare a nice dish at a moderate expense	1865	Description	View images
What to do with the cold mutton	1865	Description	View images
The art of confectionery	1866	Description	View images
Crumbs from the round table	1866	Description	View images
Dainty dishes	1866	Description	View images
Hand-book of practical cookery, for ladies and professional cooks	1867	Description	View images
Verstille's southern cookery	1867	Description	View images
What shall we eat? A manual for housekeepers	1868	Description	View images
The cider makers' manual	1869	Description	View images
Baker's guide; or, The art of baking	1870	Description	View images
The philosophy of eating	1870	Description	View images
What to eat, and how to cook it	1870	Description	View images
The young cook	1870	Description	View images
De Witt's Connecticut cook book, and housekeeper's assistant	1871	Description	View images
Jewish cookery book	1871	Description	View images
Mrs. Owen's Illinois cook book	1871	Description	View images
Mrs. Porter's new Southern cookery book	1871	Description	View images
The appledore cook book	1872	Description	View images
The dessert book	1872	Description	View images
The health reformer's cook book	1872	Description	View images
The new housekeeper's manual	1873	Description	View images
The Kansas home cook-book	1874	Description	View images
Presbyterian cook book	1874	Description	View images
California recipe book	1875	Description	View images
Housekeeping in the Blue Grass	1875	Description	View images
The Manhattan cook-book	1875	Description	View images
My mother's cook book	1875	Description	View images
1776-1876: The centennial cook book and general guide	1876	Description	View images
The hygienic cook book	1876	Description	View images
The Times' recipes	1876	Description	View images
The cooking manual of practical directions for economical every-day cookery	1877	Description	View images
Fifteen cent dinners for families of six	1877	Description	View images
Mrs. Chase's practical advice for the skilful treatment of articles of diet	1882	Description	View images
Canoe and camp cookery	1885	Description	View images
La cuisine creole	1885	Description	View images
Cocoa and chocolate	1886	Description	View images
The Picayune's Creole cook book	1901	Description	View images
Thirty-six years an ice cream maker	1907	Description	View images