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.

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